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Baking result of the same file differs on Mac vs PC

Forum|Forum|3 months ago
January 22, 2026
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Baking textures on Mac and PC has a different outcome and I really don’t know why. Is this an Apple Silicon Problem?

Rendering on a MacBook Pro M3 Max 64GB RAM, macOS 15.7.3 all renders (HDR) are darker, especially the Bent Normals and the Normal WS passes are almost black

Rendering on Windows 11 with an GeForce RTX 3060 all looks fine. Please see attached images.

Rene Andritsch

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Community Expert

I will DM you tomorrow and put together the files and additional screenshots. Thank you!

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Nicolas Wirrmann

Community Manager

Are you baking a high poly to a low poly ?
What are the settings above?

Can you share the files ?

Rene Andritsch

Author

Community Expert

I’m running Version 15.1.1. But the problemm also occurred in the version before. The files are fbx exports from Blender 4.5.4.

Here are the screenshots in JPG. I hope you can see them now.

Bent-Normal-Mac.jpgBent-Normal-Win.jpgSettings.jpg

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Nicolas Wirrmann

Community Manager

Hi, for some reasons I can't open your attached images..
What version of SD are you running ?

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