[SOLVED] Can't seem to bake my high poly mesh information onto my low

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I’m getting back into prop creation for real time engines and I’ve baked the high poly trunk mesh just fine but I cannot seem to bake the information from these high poly plugs (which I probably used very wrong…) to my low poly travel trunk mesh.

Thus far I have tried:

  • baking in xNormal
  • fixing normal directions
  • applying scale
  • increasing baked image resolution

To be honest I’m pretty stumped on this one but I can’t help but think there’s something funny going on with these plugs, I’ve not used them before (I’ve been using meshmachin3). Any help is very appreciated

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Sometimes Apply Modifiers… Remove Any Doubles…And Make Sure It’s A Solid Mesh… No Holes or An opening :slight_smile: If Your Using 2.8 Check Some Tutorials About Baking Again :wink: Sometimes It’s Just Some Small Things That We’ve Missed :wink:

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Oh dear, I had about 9000 doubles XD It really is those little things you miss haha, THANKYOU!

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I Used To Do Retopo But If Your Model Is Complicated And Less Squares… Decimate Modifiers Will Do Just Fine For Low Poly :wink:

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Oh I love decimate modifiers, I’ve got this photogrammetry project I did and it’s beautiful for them so I have all these seashells that just had lower poly meshes and good decimation maps. Might be doing that workflow again to revisit some old work