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mikeed

02-11-2010, 05:20 AM

hi folks, Im having issues when baking normal maps to my low poly mesh in maya. The normal map picks up info from the low poly model or somthing after i bake because it becomes all checkered :argh:. Im just blundering my way through this and rigging at the moment so please excuse me if i ask noob questions.
file:///C:/Users/Michael/Desktop/normal1.jpg
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9566/normal1t.jpg (http://img51.imageshack.us/i/normal1t.jpg/)

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/4042/normal1after.jpg (http://img40.imageshack.us/i/normal1after.jpg/)

Dragon

02-11-2010, 04:34 PM

at a quick glance, this looks like the mesh you are extracting to has flattened (or hard edged) normals per face. Try turning them all smooth then extract again.

mikeed

02-11-2010, 10:40 PM

thanks for the answer, i didn't think of that ill try again later today :D

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