Making a Realistic Game Character in Blender - P 25 - Baking a Normal Map

[MileIotecrew]

hey dude... i made a cave troll from lord of the rings, but when i render my normal mapped model i can see the seams! What should i do? do i have to change the uv maps? Please help!! I can post a view pics if you want me to ;)

[uninvolved]

did you quit?

[CokeSupply]

eedo, are you going to do a polygon hair tutorial? I've been looking online for the last 8 hours and can't find a good one - I'm having issues with getting double-sided alpha hair textures to render properly and nobody seems to be addressing it adequately

[eedobaba7726]

@CokeSupply

No, sorry. I've never been great with polygonal hair myself.

[CokeSupply]

@eedobaba7726 Aww OK :( Great work btw ;)

[krononomikon]

man, that copying of the map and just spreading out the extra layer... why didn't I think of that? d'oh! :)

[netfella]

Thanks for a great series of tutorials. I'm a noob at Blender and found the tutorials really informative and easy to understand. Here's my head using mug shot images of Vincent Gigante at watch?v=ulFEEitbS0U

[netfella]

Thanks for a great series of tutorials. I'm a noob at Blender and found the tutorials really informative and easy to understand. Here's my head using mug shot images at watch?v=ulFEEitbS0U

[enjoiskate11]

So when i bake the textures i end up with solid color, not the same kind of map you did. And i am sure i chose the right one

[eedobaba7727]

@enjoiskate11

Make sure you select your high poly, then shift-select your low poly. Then bake the normal map on Tangent.

[enjoiskate11]

@eedobaba7727 Haha thanks i figured it out, I didnt have my low poly and high poly on top of each other. they were side by side

[enjoiskate11]

I couldnt even make your low poly res! well maybe with a lot of time but, im just not that patient

[AETrainingDavid97]

Have you tried or do you have Photoshop?

Just wondering, since I'm considering Photoshop for texturing, but if you tried PS, do you like Paint Shop Pro better?

[eedobaba7726]

@AETrainingDavid97

I use photoshop cs3 at school. Overall I do prefer Psp9. It's controls are more intuitive, and it does just about the same stuff.

[AETrainingDavid97]

@eedobaba7726 Hmm... I should look into it.

Thanks!

[TheChazas]

he look like from wrong turn movie :D

[00eerr11kkk]

the wire is really bad.. u save it with a sculpt.. nice ! :)

[johnshepherdsg]

dude you could use him as a fredy krüger

[rorkimaru]

When you saved the normal map as a jpg I yelled nooo!!! png all the way, lossless for the win!

By the way, the asymmetrical sculpt looks incredible, its a shame that the capture crashed. Would it be possible to screen cast a brief video of you sculpting in a few of those small skin details with the textures on a plane or a sphere or something? Obviously if you don't have the time its cool since you are putting together this huge tutorial but its something I've always had a bit of trouble with.

[eedobaba7726]

@rorkimaru Jpg was a mistake, believe me. Once I realized, I went back and saved as targa. :)

Also, I'll try and at least talk over some of my sculpting techniques when I'm just painting in the next few videos.

[rorkimaru]

@eedobaba7726 phew! for a second I thought the world had gone insane =D.

Thats great about the painting thing then. I actually gave making a skin like appearance another shot and did an alright enough job by going through the different texture settings. I'm really liking this project (as I've said a thousand times ;) )