Last updated on
May 24, 2023
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- Common issues
- Aliasing on UV Seams
- Baker output is fully black or empty
- Baking failed with Color Map from Mesh
- Black shading cross are visible on the mesh surface
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- Normal map has strange colorful gradients
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Baker output is fully black or empty
Alert:
Issue
The result of a baker is a black or empty texture:
Note:
Explanation
A black texture means the baker wasn't able to find the information required to output a result. For example the baking process didn't find the high-poly mesh to match with the low-poly resulting in nothing to compare against.
Note:
Solution
- Verify if the high-poly mesh necessary for the baker was properly loaded (refer to the log file/window for any errors).
- Verify that the low-poly or high-poly meshes are not too big (more than a kilometer) or too small (less than a centimeter).
- Verify if the baker was able to read/process the mesh (refer to the log file/window for any errors).
- Verify if the Matching by Name feature was not properly setup (some objects may exclude each other and never overlap).
- Verify that the low-poly UVs are within the 0-1 range.
