artifacts during baking

[laurentopia]

the third ring of leaves in this pine tree is darker depite normals are outwards like the rest

also present in RT

import settings:

geometry: pine with borkned 3rd ring.zip

[laurentopia]

change material with this borky mc borkbork.zip

[guycalledfrank]

Unity doesn't really have its own .ma importer, it locates Maya on your machine and asks it to export a FBX. Can you export it for me? :D

[laurentopia]

tree pine static.zip

[guycalledfrank]

It looks like even before any baking, the third ring is borked already:

Interestingly it's the only ring with double-sided polygons, apparently they mess up with vertex normal smoothing:

[laurentopia]

thanks I fixed that, I wonder how that got there...