Hi... newbie here:

I sculped this little guy a few months ago, but had to postpone the project. Now I'm picking up where I left, but I'm having quite a trouble baking the normal maps again.

Before I shelved the project, I baked the normal map for the facial features and everything went really smooth from Mudbox to Maya. No problems.

Now that I have to add some extra details in Mudbox, I can´t get the same results whatsoever! It´s the same meshes, the same files, same UVs, SAME EVERYTHING... except for the baking settings! And I can't remember the settings I used the last time.

It´s been 2 frustrating weeks trying every single setting available using the old "trial and error" method and i can't make it work. I´ve even tried baking the normal map in XNormal... and I can´t get it right!.


Here are some examples:

Original Normal Map baked in Mudbox 2011 with unknown settings:


Mudbox 2011 Subdivision 2k:



Mudbox 2011 Raycasting (Closest to Target, Best Guess, 2k):



XNormal (Using the values from the Ray Distance Calculator, Average Normals, Match UVs, Edge padding: 32, Bucket Size:128, 2K):



Help!... any thoughts?