So my baking resulted in this, I dont have a gpu but i followed all the steps told in the lecture, I tried changing the color converter ramp black and white sliders but its the same as that
1 Like
This black on bakes it usually down to getting the right Extrusion and Ray distance. See highlighted part of this checklist.
Baking checklist.
HP= High poly model baking the details from.
LP= Low Poly model baking details to.
Check normals on Both models are all correctly outward facing.
Check both share the same place for their origin points.
Make your LP a ‘reasonable’ fit to the HP.
UV unwrap the LP
Smooth shade BOTH models.
Select the HP first, then the LP so the LP is the active selection.
Set to Cycles render engine.
Ensure Rendering of the objects involved is not turned off, (camera icon in outliner)
Create a new blank image In the Image editor, Name it with an appropriate ending, like norm, diff, ao, rough, etc.
Create a material for your LP object. (if it has not already)
Open that new blank image in an image texture Node of the LP material.
The Image texture Node does NOT need to be connected.
The Image texture Node MUST be selected.
In the Render Properties tab. Scroll down to the BAKE dropdown.
Change the Bake Type to the one you wish to do.
In the Influence dropdown, untick Lighting Direct and Indirect.
TICK the Selected to Active Box and open the dropdown.
The Messing about part.
Set extrusion to 0.002 As a first test, these numbers will vary by model and HP/LP fit.
Set Max Ray Distance, you can probably leave it at zero. But again it is a number that may need adjusting to your use case.
Play with these numbers until you get a good result. This bit is not a matter of using X and Y numbers as every model varies. It often needs several tries to find a good pair of values.
Output, will be Image Textures.
Tick the Clear image box to bake over anything on the new image file, like a previous try that did not work quite as wanted. (Untick it if baking multiple objects to one map, otherwise, it will clear away previous baked info on the image.)
Margin size, 20px should cover most likely eventualities
You are set. Make sure the models are selected in the right order, and that the image node being baked to is actively selected.
Click Bake! Wait.
2 Likes
a lot of steps, let me go through them all
1 Like
it still is the same, infact i tried touching the color slider a bit and now its completely black …
going to watch that video again …
After countless tries, its much better, but now I am stuck with this missing leg and a little bit of back
Great progress. Have a look and see if that leg has the LP and HP a bit further apart for some reason. A whole area like that might imply a different average gap/relationship.
1 Like
no, actually it was a mirror reflection, it cannot have any different dimension then the other leg,
finally after messing with the extrude and ray distance i reached here
Thanks alot, if you were not here to help I would be stuck here for i dont know how long.
2 Likes
This topic was automatically closed 24 hours after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.