Axe - Detailed Game Objects - P19 - Cavity Maps in Detail

[@JSAbbott]

I've always struggled baking my maps in Blender. This series has really helped me to finally understand baking! Thank you so much :)

[@TipsyTigerRoar]

Absolutely love that is what this series is all about. Just pure gold who ever wishes to learn blender. Thank you so much.

[@alexz198]

Thank you for tutorials! On 9:35, you can set amount of samples in rendering settings to 1, emit and diffuse (if without direct+indirect) passes don't depend on that (among some others). This will result in greatly reduced time (and hardware load) to render the maps

[@grabbitt]

That's a good point I'd not considered that

[@kanthimplura]

how I like these mini-tutorials, so well explained.

[@LadMes]

Thank you so much for this tutorial series (and others as well=D)! And for those who wonder, like me, how to achieve this lighting in cycles uncheck "world lighting" under the shading pop-up menu (where icons for solid, lookdev and render viewport are placed).

[@armin3419]

Thanks a lot

[@residal1454]

i love the way you stop and question us as the veiwer to make us use info we previously retained.

[@Manas-co8wl]

P19 Notes 1:03 HP material setup 2:20 Color Ramp 8:31 HP for baking 9:18 Bake Type: Emit 10:43 Color Ramp (Maybe)

[@mrhollywood1173]

These AXE tuts have been really well explained and incredibly helpful. Cheers Mate.

[@ThatGuy_33]

5:02 There is a joke to be made here but I won’t be the one to make it.

[@Manas-co8wl]

And here I thought I was the only one.. yeesh

[@MakeDawn01]

In case someone runs into the issue of White spot artifacts on your high poly mesh when attaching your pointiness node. It's caused by your object being to small, so you'll need to scale both the high and low poly meshes and apply the scale before baking.

[@waryamartsstudios2021]

thank you so much much appreciated

[@RG36c]

If you have a hard time seeing if there are black and white spots while setting up your color ramp, you can set it to constant temporarily so the spots will have a sharp edge

[@KaiBuskirk]

Grant You Rock Great Series! Cheers, Kai

[@ICon415]

Ahhhhhhh once again! great video. Thank you for creating this. Top G!

[@riogamez2437]

I love this series

[@LoserHands]

Man the normals on this axe look goood

[@GifCoDigital]

At 3:50 why not just set the black on the color ramp to be less than 100% black ie change the color ramp black point slightly towards grey. Would that accomplish the same thing and not allow for more control of the "contrast" effect?

[@grabbitt]

yes

[@SmashhoofTheOriginal]

I just finished your character course and I've been really enjoying this series too. Maybe I'll make an axe for my orc to wield.

[@MasterCharizard]

Really can't wait for next video :D

[@booots3857]

Will the cavity map also make realist objects better, or is it only useful for stylized models?

[@grabbitt]

realistic also

[@KaiBuskirk]

Right on Grant!

[@papadross]

Thanks for all your videos. They have helped me a great deal with learning Blender. Quick question about Render Preview. When it shows in your videos, your objects are a lighter grey but when I switch it to render preview, mine is dark grey. With or without lighting it is still dark grey. Is there a setting that I am missing?

[@grabbitt]

I'm not sure about that one

[@EenaTheBudgie]

I wish you will soon get 300K subscribers

[@Dach101]

Brilliant stuff!

[@OneSingleMichael]

Hi Grant, I’m curious to know how baking this kind of lighting information might work with organic forms like a mouth or eyelids-- things that move, stretch, and open. I imagine that you’d have a high poly mouth that is just a crease on the surface and doesn’t curve and go inside the model. Or would you have a HP sculpt that has lips that touch together and mouth, and be able to bake it all the same? Do you know anything about this? Thanks for the awesome tutorials!

[@grabbitt]

Yes it works ok from what I have experienced

[@bayernmaik8583]

Soooo cavity is basically like "static" or "non realtime" ambient occlusion shadow detail sort of thing, isnt it?

[@grabbitt]

kind of

[@ykkiw]

I have a question Does viewport look matter for baking texture maps for example ao,cavity,emit.... can i have it in solid mode viewport and bake ao,cavity,emit... or it has to be in render preview (viewport shading) ? and the emission node makes my mesh too white and bright even with 1.0 value but the baked texture map looks normal i think, at least looks similar to your cavity map

[@mrityunjaydwivedi9930]

please make a tutorial on hyper casual game character with customization please

[@reuegabe9037]

Thanks for the video! Do I understand correctly that the cavity map is an alternative to the AO map, only more flexible in the settings?

[@grabbitt]

It's a bit different really

[@hannerz3441]

rtx 280

[@Duff8Ka]

what about using photoshop or any other image editor to remove those tiny black dots after baking? That way you will not change the bake of the rest.

[@grabbitt]

Yes that works

[@gabrielWachong]

this may be a dumb question, but how do you get the render view to appear illuminated? I keep getting a really dark gray color instead of white surface. Should I set up some scene lights before this step? Edit* I think i solved it by changing the world color to white, was that what I was doing wrong?

[@grabbitt]

you can do that or put an hdri in the background is more common

[@gabrielWachong]

@@grabbitt oh man thank you for that super speedy response! Im currently doing the texture painting following your tutorial as well! Seriously you are a true legend! Thanks so much! 🙌🙌💪💪🔥🔥

[@ShockwaVeee]

Does anyone else get these weird white spots on their mesh when using the pointiness/color ramp nodes? imgur.com/a/bMeOji5 I've tried adjusting the color ramp to hide them, but then the whole cavity map gets too bright. I've also tried to bake the diffuse, but that didn't work either.

[@grabbitt]

You can paint them out

[@ShockwaVeee]

@@grabbitt Oh god, you're right! Thanks a lot for the help and the tutorials, you're the man!

[@nanaspacecat]

@@ShockwaVeee Just for anyone that may come across this problem; it's a known bug and can be "solved" by scaling the mesh up (I read about 10times), applying the scale, baking and then scaling to original again. Encountered the same problem, maybe it helps someone. :)

[@sr_regi5955]

@@nanaspacecat scale which one, Hi or Lo? And how much scaling? Thank you in advance.

[@agastyavalisetty8620]

i forgot u were a human with a youtube channel bcuz of exams, i think it is a side effect of exams LOL

[@damienbresser7320]

First of all always great things to learn from you, but i have a problem i am using blender 2.92 when i want to bake the cavity the image keep staying black nothing appears and i can find the issue i checked everything but it won't work do you know what that problem is????

[@grabbitt]

Tricky to say

[@armin3419]

just a guess but check if the right image texture node is highlighted before baking

[@vanished001]

Cavity map and Curvature map, confuse me. Is there a circumstance, you'd use 1 over the other? Or both at the same time?

[@grabbitt]

Both the same

[@bensnappiro4327]

I'm having a bit of trouble in this part. I don't know how or why, but whenever I click the whole Collection and make a new material shader Principled BSDF, only one part of the HP is selected and not the whole HP model

[@bensnappiro4327]

Nvm, it seems that they all should carry the same material link

[@peterrandall6761]

Lol, im trying to determine good settings for cavity on a mac. Takes about 10 seconds to denoise 5 samples

[@boitahaki]

Cool but... how do I connect a cavity map to the low poly object?

[@grabbitt]

I think I go through that in the next video

[@tomoyaogawa4485]

Hello Grant! I have a question about baking cavity map. It’s not specifically about this video but when you have sculpted object and non sculpted objects ( character and small accessories eg..) and You uv unwrapped them all into same map, do you recommend to bake cavity for non sculpted objects as well?? I have baked it out for my character and and clothing but I’m not sure how I should approach to baking much simpler objects. Thank you in advance!!

[@grabbitt]

Perhaps but it need lots of faces to work

[@tomoyaogawa4485]

@@grabbitt ahhh I see now why my baked image was kinda looking weird. Thank you for the advice!

[@thecanaeggplant2937]

Once i finish baking, it says "baking map saved to internal image, save it externally or pack it" And my whole texture is black, i didn't have such problem baking ambient occlusin and normal maps, is there any way to fix this, tried to bake it in diffuze as well, didn't work.

[@grabbitt]

Sounds like a big. Unfortunately it can be very buggy

[@murrowboy]

When's a good time to use cavity maps vs AO? Since they are so similar, is it worth combining?

[@grabbitt]

There not as similar as you might think

[@tihomirvisnic9663]

When i swapped to the rendered view my light came only from one side, did i miss something? Are you using an invisible hdri for that?

[@grabbitt]

I might have put an hdri in mine and forgot to mention it

[@derinthomas7670]

How to link hp object for having one material....iam having different node for axe,head e.tc...

[@grabbitt]

Not sure what you mean

[@SeriouslyNotSalty]

hello Grant Abbitt, I follow your tutorials on udemy and on your channel and I have two questions first: normal map baking from high poly to low poly doesn't work properly I took a look at normals they were fine yet even with the least possible ray distance it doesn't work properly and some parts look empty as if the normals are flipped. Second I wanted to know if you have a proper tutorial on masking the body so that it won't come out of the armor and clothing when animated. i tried masking bodyparts out but it was so weird the body would stretch and masked parts would show up ... what is the proper way to get rid of it.

[@grabbitt]

i'll probably do a tutorial on clothing at some point yes as for the normal maps its difficult to say

[@SeriouslyNotSalty]

@@grabbitt Thanks, I really appreciate it, and please do keep up the good work.

[@grzeskowebazgroy9845]

After turning on Pointiness and rendered, the stage gets dark, how do I add HDRI at this point will be fine?

[@grabbitt]

You can add a half node to the pointiness of it goes darker

[@grzeskowebazgroy9845]

@@grabbitt Where are the information about the light coming from if the stage is dark after switching on rendered. I don't understand this. Sorry for my English, I use an interpreter.

[@lavalamp2011]

Hi Grant, so I did everything like in the video, but when I bake the cav map, it says it’s done after a very short time and it just stays completely black... I've been trying to figure out what went wrong for almost a whole day now and I'm at a loss. Do have an idea what might be the problem here?

[@grabbitt]

Very difficult to say

[@lavalamp2011]

@@grabbitt hmm okay, I guess I'll try it on a different project, maybe I messed something up with the settings. Thanks for answering though

[@lavalamp2011]

Hi there again, I found the solution! I'm posting this here in case someone else gets the same problem. So it turned out to be a uv problem of the high poly. I just did a smart uv project of it (which took quite some time) and then it worked. Weirdly enough, the normal map wasn’t affected by the uv problem, so that’s a little bit weird...but you know, I'm really glad I figured it out :) Cheers Edit: There is also another thing that went wrong: I had disabled visible on render for the high poly (to test how the low poly looked) and I didn’t realize that it is also considered a render when you bake. (Honestly that one's on me, that was kind of stupid hahah)

[@ranjiths-b6w]

liked before watch.

[@ghazwi637]

I have a problem with the AO maps, I have a good side and a complete black side

[@grabbitt]

check normals

[@Lobocyfer]

in my case, old boolean was the problem. i just erased unused objects.

[@stalkershano]

One more gr8 tut ✓

[@titmoussaillon]

Thanks ! :D

[@GauravKumar-qw6vy]

Plzzz do realistic texture on it i dont know that process plzzz show us that..... remever highly realistic

[@cekconi1773]

👍👍👍

[@eliaslns7143]

Cool ❤️🔥

[@fungypie8756]

COOL

[@riogamez2437]

First was waiting for this