How to get rid of the seam lines, printed on shadow map? [3Ds Max]

[MeshPromo]

Hello all, how to get rid of the seam lines printed on the shadow map when baked the shadow using "render to texture" in 3Ds Max?

I tried increasing padding, using different render setups, different lights etc but nothing worked.

Edited October 13, 2019 by MeshPromo

[MeshPromo]

Update: I could able to fix the issue by selecting "Matte/Shadow" from Materials. (In case if someone will have the same problem).

Edited October 13, 2019 by MeshPromo

[Kyrah Abattoir]

Ambient darkens occlusion concave ares of the model, isn't that what you wanted?

Can you show us an "assembled" view so we can see what it looks like?

Edited October 21, 2019 by Kyrah Abattoir

[Creative Voxel]

My recommendation is to increase the Padding from 2 pixels to 6 pixels, ontop of that, Secondlife LOD's textures from a distance which causes Seams to form, to get around it you can pull the texture into photoshop, and to a content aware fill, which should fix the issue.

[Kyrah Abattoir]

That too, UV islands absolutely need to be padded to eliminate seams, my ballpark is usually 8 to 16 pixels of padding, this way when the texture is only partially loaded you still get a somewhat seamless look.

[Chic Aeon]

Even with extra padding you may need to "blur" those diagonal edges in your graphics software. That's what the "better" meshers do. Otherwise, you often see some nasty edges on those non-linear pieces.