Preparing the Robot Drone model for xNormal

Now, we need to export the Robot Drone model's high-poly and low-poly meshes so that we can bake the textures in xNormal.

There are two versions of the model to be baked: the low-poly mesh and the high-poly mesh.

Let's start by preparing the Robot Drone model's low-poly mesh first.

Preparing the low-poly mesh

In the UV unwrapping the Robot Drone model section, you separated all of your model parts. In other words now, the model parts are not attached to other model parts anymore.

We will now start to prepare the Robot Drone model's Low-Poly mesh for xNormal:

1. Move all of the separated mesh parts away from each other so that there are small distances between them, as shown in Figure 4.12:

Figure 4.12 – The low-poly version of the Robot Drone's model parts are all moved away from each other and then triangulated

Note

The reason we're moving the mesh...