How I can remove those baked in shadows. I have no idea how to get rid of those. I tried collapsing geo, swapping material nothing is helping. It's simple just imported object from Marvelous designer.
Hi,
Left-click the [standard] area on the top left of the viewport, and pick 'Active Viewport Settings'. Have a mess around with the 'Lighting and Shadows' settings, see if that helps?
This is a screengrab from 2022, but it should look the same in 2024.
Regards,
Hi,
I only have 2022 installed on this workstation, 2024 at home, so I can't open the file.
I have only breifly touched on texture baking, so I'm not the best person to reply.
Looking at UV Tools3.2m online, it looks very advanced. Enough to give me the fear just looking at it. Perhaps UV Tools is baking it somewhere?
The trouble is, there is too much shadow, or too much contrast, or the wrong type of lighting. My suggestions about changing the 3DSMax default viewport lighting might fix this, to a certain level, but to get it looking nice, the lighting needs working on.
All this is besides the point of me not knowing where the shadow is coming from, but knowing that it is there, and flattening it with UV Tools is baking that nasty shadow onto it.
If there was equal lighting on all sides before baking, there would be no shadows, thusly there would essentially 'be no spoon'; The item would be invisible against a white background. Therefore there needs to be some level of shadows, or directional/fill lighting taking place for the flat object to have an appearance of depth. If that is what you want. If not, just draw a white filled rectangle instead?
From the UVTools 3.2m Help -> Common Tab:
Again, grasping at straws here. I do not own or use this 3rd party plugin.
Regarding changing the material of the object and the shadow baking remaining, that's just weird. Do the baked shadows go away if you turn off the resulting UVWUnwrap modifier that might be left in the stack of the object? Dunno myself, never used it.
Regards,
The morphing process that you are using seems to be messing up the smoothing groups. If I put a Smooth modifier on top of the morpher, the "shadows" go away:
Maybe check for smoothing group settings in the UV Tool that you are using if you don't want to just add the smooth modifier for some reason.
The normal modifier also fixes the issue, so smoothing groups might be symptom of Normals problem.
If you gradually drag morpher fader from 0 to 100 you can see that the lower mesh element seems to be dragged inside out during morphing. So you can also check the UV Tool you are using, which seems to separate the pillow mesh into 2 separate elements and then flatten them, for any settings related to Normals that might prevent this in first place. If not, you can always Collapse To the stack from Normals modifier (or Smooth modifier) down, which seems to fix the problem.
