Normal map xnormal error

[David_Sola]

Hello.
I baked high poly to low poly weapon but I came up with some kind of errors.


High poly weapon


Low poly


UVW template


Normal map from xnormal(512x512) Edge padding 4, bucket size 16


Normal map assigned to low poly weapon.Wrong shading


where is the key to better bake?smoothing groups or cage?
I tried with smoothing groups by 90 angle, almost same results.
Thanks

[Suraci]

Smoothing groups are important, if you are using 3ds max you can make different smoothing groups I believe.

When baking (and I use xNormal for that) I always use a cage. Very important.

And just wondering but have you checked if your normals are flipped?

[David_Sola]

normals are facing right direction.I tried to use textools to convert uvw islands to smoothing groups and material ID's for better cage.


Result

[Mr.Cash]

Hey David,

maybe this polycount-thread will help you