Transfer HIGH POLY details to LOW POLY object in Blender 

Sad that the Starfield devs didn't see this video before release.

When creating your texture map for your normals bake, if you check the 32bit float box it will bake a 16bit normal map. It will be a more accurate representation of your high poly and have no artifacts. Very important if you are baking normal maps for objects that have very low roughness.

Render with a single sample, it makes no difference to use more but makes the bake instant

I think you can also go backwards with this process, meaning you can make a low poly model, then add a multires modifier, use sculpting tools to add details and then bake the normal map to keep the model low poly.

I worked for 1.5 days to figure this out by using the cage method. I tried everything to get my realistic head sculpt to have detail, but this tutorial worked. For some reason the cage methods kept letting me down but this alternate way did not. Amazing work please keep it up!

This is very helpful this will work great on a full landscape from millions of polys down to a minimal amount thanks for sharing!

I like this Video, particularly good explanation shows all the complete workflow without confusing things added on!

Thank you man! that was so difficult to understand before watching your tutorials , still in progress but I'm closer than ever! keep up the amazing work !

Excellent! I feel much more confident after seeing how simple you made this process.

This is amazing! I've been trying to find a more streamlined process to go from high poly to a model that can actually be used in maya to create large scenes and this is beyond helpful. Thanks!!

Loved this tutorial very much! Thanks!

Very clear and efficient process! Thank you!

Thank you! The decimate modifier is so good! I made a bunch of rocks to use as a landscape decoration in my game, but they were around 10k triangles, now it's 500 triangles and they still look good🙂

thank you! super helpful!

Really fantastic walkthrough. Thanks!

Thank you for explaining it so well, so happy I found this tutorial!

Excellent video, couldn't be more clear, thank you!

This tutorial helped me out a lot! Thank you!

I live what you did here. Rly helpful

thanks for the time it took u to share, so usefull

Just amazing, thank you so much !

Such an important tip! Thanks for sharing you're amazing

Thank you very much, this was a great lesson!

Finally someone who goes straight to the point! Amazing explanation about Blender bake on youtube, surely the best one. I don't like the way you unwrapp (because for sure you can do it better) but anyway nice choise, you made it simple things pretty hard to understand. Thank you.

Super useful, thanks

Super useful tutorial, thank you !

Wow, That was helpful Thank you so much✨

Superrrr video..very helpful .. was searching exactly this.. thanks a ton !!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Great lesson. Thank you.

Thank you so much for the multires method.Something new I learnt today

There's an addon called "JBake" that essentially automates that whole process. If you plan on baking a lot of normals, it's a worthwhile addon to have.

Thanks! Very helpful. Good luck on your RU-vid journey! It is quite the endeavor.

Good explanation THANKS

You say BAKE with so much energy. Loved it, even tho I'm not into blender or 3d rendering.

Great video! Thank you 🫶🏻

It was a really good lesson... I always render scenes with lot of polygons.... Thanks brow.

Thank you, for the nice video! It helped me a lot.

man i was stuck on this topic for so long, just now because of you i understand it, thanks

Finally I understand about baking! Thank you so much!!!😭

amazing!! thank you!!

Finally a tutorial that helped me bake the normals of my object thanks so much

You resolved my issue with a fast video because other youtuber show plugin or other method, but this two method was fast and precise, so thanks. Ho, and now you are one French follower.

Best guy for this. Ty

Thanks 🤣🙏 I tried every tutorial and it was always doing smth weird or they were not explaining well or too fast but you explained this thing so easily and clearly

this tut would have helped me so much back in february when i started doing things with normals hahaha, all tutorials were a bit convoluted, and i couldn't understand them very well, but i eventually figured things out

Tyvm

Thank you for this

Thank's brother , it helped me .

great video. thank´s

One way to make this video extra useful (specially to newbies) is to explain a little more what you are doing and why, and not just explain how to do it.

I've been learning blender for about 6 months. It's amazing in many ways compared to fusion 360. Guys like you make every little tip so easy to understand. Thank you.

Nemanja, I never knew you had a Blender channel, this is Exciting! I've always followed your Outstanding tutorials on Photoshop!

Just see this video in my youtube suggestions. Watched it and subscribe immediately. You making good explanation of things! Keep going!

Using a decimal separator in the thumbnail makes it seem like your turning a really low poly model into a higher poly one!

Thanks so much 🙏🙏🙏

for some of you who will bake diffuse color from high poly mesh to simple 2d plane for texture atlas - dont forget in ouliner to turn off all render icons of the rest unbackable objects, because it may collide with your baked map )))

ThX

I'm working on a tree for project of mine and I got it from 8 million faces down to 996!!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

Thanks, man!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

earned a sub!

I couldn't get the first technique to work on Blender 3.6 but the multires modifier worked OK. Thanks.

i needed this so badd

suppose i want to paint the rock do i paint the high poly and just transfer the color using normal maps or do i have to add another color image for the low poly and uv unwrap both high and low poly mesh

thanks

0:00 left high poly and right low poly. You can see it in the silhouette. The left one has way more structure/smooth the right one has harder egges.

Nice!

so smart 👍

Texture baking is very important to learn.

Very helpful Nemanja as usual

Does this work for character models as well, or would another method be needed?

Thanks

he never deleted the high version and always covered the low one, gg genious.

I could also just use quad remesher from exosuit?

Thank you, I'm glad you showed both methods. Excellent !! A very helpful video for a difficult concept.

Is there a possibilty to automate this process of several manual steps or is there maybe a tool / addon doing this job?

Thanks this video is so helpful to all 3d artists

Nice

Simple bake is a must have for Blender. It would help save time

The Garten of banban devs played this video in reverse lol

I have 4 rocks, they are seperate objects sharing the same UV1. Can you still do this with multiple rocks selected?

thank you i finally baked a normal map

Can I make a normal map from a collection instead of one object ? I've made a 3D model for a game and I want to bake a normal map to gave it a smoother look. But I couldn't build my object as one mesh. Instead, it's 7 meshes clipping together to form one object.

We need to send this to that guy who made 70k polygon sandwitch in starfield.

you can tell which is which. Look at the edges (transition to background) the low poly version has uglier more clunky edges. This is important, that is how you know how far you can go with this. You example is still high poly enough that it does not become apparent enough to be a problem.

Seems like Multires bake way is faster and easier. Thanks for nice and straightforward video.

I’m sorry if I misunderstood or I missed some thing but I am having an issue with this so I needed everything or I think I did everything that you said in the video but after I saved my project I closed out of everything and I hopped back on later that afternoon, and all the details were gone and there was no normal map. No nothing and I don’t know why it keeps being removed, and should I paint first and then do that or do that then paint and how do I make sure everything is saved?

works with the normals but not with base color. It copies the height instead :( im using UDIMS, so maybe thats why?

Great video! Question, which Mac are you running for your work? OR just straight up how much memory do you have?

Does this work well with characters, or do you need to strategically retopologize and seam for unwrap.

This is the first tutorial which I understand with first try xD thanks! as my model has 20 million polygons, I still wait for the result^^ Hope it worked Can I display the baked texture in texture painting or vertex paint, so I could for example paint dino scales scale for scale in different colours? I have another question: in sculpting my model mirror is not 100% the same... Normaly I model the clay on the right side with X mirror... But the left side (the mirrord side) isnt exat the same.. its like you modeling the right side with 100% strengh and the left side just with 90% strengh. Do you know why this happens? its with every model i made

Thanks for the tutorial! This is great. One question. You mentioned it was very important to switch to Cycles from Eevee. Does this not work in Eevee too, but of course lower quality?

i loved that HDRI lol ! do you know which one you used?

I'm making a game with many animated NPCs, can applying this technique to NPCs reduce the quality of the animations within the game?

Just into the point! Where this normal map is saved? How to export it as file?

i love you

I'm burning my brain trying to understand the relation between "Max Ray Distance" and "Extrusion" options. All tutorials just give you a number, so I guess nobody knows how it works exactly.

i cant believe this channel only have 3k subs, i thought some 600k

Normal maps are witchcraft. Super helpful video though. Saving this one for reference.

Thanks for the helpful video. So if i understand it right , the low poly mesh just uses a image texture ( so it doesnt really have the real textures) but looks the same and doesnt use as much faces / triangles as the high poly one .