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Why are there wrong normals on the normal map?
Around the top cylinder begins an area where bake rays actually start to hit “correct” parts of the highpoly, so we’re starting to see this smooth bevel. In other words: wrong normals are recorded into normal map in some areas because of how bake rays are casted from an averaged projection mesh.
How to get a normal map out of low poly?
You should still be able to get a functional normal map out of that low poly. It just won’t be pretty on the curved areas. To the OP, try increasing the max frontal and rear search distances for your bake. Also increase the dilation slider to give your map some more padding. If you could post a screenshot of your bake settings it would be helpful.
What’s the difference between normals on and off in baking?
However, when using an all-soft mesh, there is no difference in bake between Average Normals = ON and Average Normals = OFF. Which is to be expected, because when there is no split vertex normals, SP has nothing to average and for baking it will use vertex normals imported from the mesh itself.
What to do if your map has hard edge?
To the OP, try increasing the max frontal and rear search distances for your bake. Also increase the dilation slider to give your map some more padding. If you could post a screenshot of your bake settings it would be helpful. Thanks for the responses, I did try all variations of frontal and rear distances, as well as many variations of a cage.
Is there an artifact on the normal map?
The weirdest things about this to me are 1: there’s no visible artifact on the normal map, and 2: substance designer’s renderer doesn’t render this artifact, but painter, Unreal and Unity all do. It would be wonderful if you could share your files.
Which is semi transparent with the normal map applied?
There is a highpoly shown with a red wireframe on it, the lowpoly is a semi-transparent with the same normal map applied in a color channel, and a few cylinders that penetrate the lowpoly and touch the surface of the highpoly.