Normal map problem

#1

Hi all, i have just started my career as a character artist and ran in to a problem with normal maps. How to create normal maps for complex character? This character have cloth, hear, holster and Gun in it. When i create normal maps, they also project on the surface underneath the cloth or any other object. How to avoid it?

Please advice on the work flow.

#2

Use different shaders for each object - if you don’t do that, you’ll have to make all the uv’s fit in the same map, or use UDIMs, but that’s not the easy way -