Needed Help, Assistance, Advice

[tinusman]

That vid shows blender 2.79
for 2.8 and up, this maybee better video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTmFFQeBor0

[Zakxaev68]

I did follow the video you posted, @tinusman, no matter how much I keep trying I always get to the point the baked AO is black.

https://i.imgur.com/kazDeNZ.png

Whatever going on.... GOOD LORD....

[xXCARL1992Xx]

you have to select Ambient Occlusion, what you are rendering now is Combined, change it in the drop down menu

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[Zakxaev68]

Nope, I always switch it to AO and keep the margin at 2 I was told by Dotec. Has to be something else. Literally what the guy in the video tutorial does, isn't like I did something different to say, screw up. Dunno what to say.

Here is a video of what I'm actually doing:
https://streamable.com/za5lh6

[galimim]

You need to disable rendering for parts (shadow) that overlaps this one.

[tinusman]

I think as galimim say`s

go to the right top in the outliner; that `Y`
restriction toggle --> activate the camera
now deselect (hit) all camera`s of objects that must not influence your object to give shadow.

good luck

[Zakxaev68]

Done and it works. Already done it few times, AO baked. Thanks for the help you both. Alas I always seem to end up with sharp edges. Means the baked shadow isn't smooth.

Few most obvious possibilities why:

1. I unwrap wrong
[current: smart uv @ angle 66, margin 0.05, width 0, correct aspect ratio, boundaries unchecked - did try various values. Also used Unwrap & manually positioning the elements on the uv grid]
2. I use wrong bake settings
[current: margin 2 with and without square samples. Also tried to export the AO in 4k then downscaled to 1024x1024]

An example of where I am at the moment:

https://i.imgur.com/QJ4LLyz.png

Left, Gloover's variant
Right, Mine

[Harven]

Sharp edges will appear on edges which are split in your UV. Doing smart uv unwrap and leaving it like that is a bad idea. You can start with smart uv unwrapping but then work on the UV so that the clearly visible edges on the mesh aren't split in your UV map.

[Zakxaev68]

https://i.imgur.com/xBQfbfq.png

Happens every single time you import the anim model from a stock truck in Blender, with the following error in console:

Code: Select all

00:10:06.341 : <ERROR> convert_from_hmd is currently not supported for interior camera

No changes done. Does it mean this particular model can't be edited via Blender at all?!

UPDATE: Yikes... It doesn't happen with the new Scania model R/S. What the.... honk?!

[Dotec]

I can import every anim interior model with no error lines.

How do you import these files?