Normal Map not Baking

[Bobo_The_Imp]

I’m trying to bake a normal map for a shield I made, but it just doesn’t seem to want to work at all. It bakes a completely blank normal map with no detail! I was working procedurally and made my diffuse and roughness maps, then baked them successfully, but the normals just don’t want to.

Here is my node tree, I’ve tried only using one of the bump nodes to bake but that didn’t work either, so I assume the mix node isn’t messing things up for me.

As you can see the normals are clearly working in this render, so I’m not sure what steps to take at this point.

Here is the blendfile:Shield.blend (9.1 MB)

[helluvamesh]

Baking Cycles Procedural Normals to Texture

Hi all, I was exporting an object to another program, and I needed to bake all my textures which were heavily procedural. For most of them, no problem; but my Normals continue to bake flat! It looks that baking normals in cycles is just for transfer the surface curvature of an highres object, which I don’t have. So I came out with this helper node, that transforms Normals in WorldCoords to Tangent, so I can bake them and use them in whatever software I want. [image] To use it just plug y…

[NeOmega]

plug anything you want displaced into the displace node of the output node. it will bake your normals just fine.