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Baking normals from High-poly without seams in LP edges
Anyways here's what i wrote:
1. quad lowpoly
2. pick hard edges
3. save quick selection
4. duplicate the mesh
on the duplicated mesh:
1. cut uv's from the quick seleciton set
2. in uv editor, click layout
3. duplicate, choose the quick selection set edges and bevel them
4.1 optional: smooth the beveled mesh
4. duplicate and create cage mesh
5. bake in xnormals
in substance:
1. open scene, import mesh with the UV's you want to use (the unbaked model), import the normal map too
2. reproject from one model to another <---- I THOUGHT
step 2 didnt work, so this is where im stuck. Im looking at one model with perfect normals but horrible UV-layout, and im also looking at a perfect UV-layout but with a horrible normal map (dark along the hard edges)
So. I guess my question is if anyone knows how to transfer a map like this, is it even possible? or is there a way around this, like the one i thought i found, that is more useful or whatever. I kinda just want nice normals.
Thanks!
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Also, I'm not sure I fully understand as I'm an amateur when it comes to UV and Normal maps but if you're trying to transfer a UV map from a high poly model to a low poly model, then I don't think that works. I believe you can transfer a normal map from high to low, but not UVs. For UVs, I think both models have to have the same geometry. Sorry if I misunderstood your question.
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