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How to prevent shadows from one model from baking onto others?🤔

Forum|Forum|6 months ago
August 10, 2025
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Hello everyone! I have three models: Cape, Torso and Arms, and Pants. When I bake them, the shadow from the Cape affects both 'Torso and Arms' and 'Pants.' I dont want that. I thought removing the Cape from the texture set list in the baking menu and rebaking , but that didnt help. How can I eliminate the Capes shadow?

When i baking textures:

Im so sorry for my english!

Baking

Correct answer Cyril Dellenbach

You can make bake matching by name or try to bake the Torso only, but in the AO parameter, switch the Self Occlusion to "Only Same mesh name".

Best regards,

Cyril Dellenbach

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Correct answer

Community Manager

You can make bake matching by name or try to bake the Torso only, but in the AO parameter, switch the Self Occlusion to "Only Same mesh name".

Best regards,

Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | QA Support Artist | Adobe

SubstancePainter_SlaveAuthor

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This worked! Thank You!

Cyril Dellenbach

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Community Manager

Hello,

Thank you for the video, could you also share a screenshot of your UVs?

Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | QA Support Artist | Adobe

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Thank you for answer!

Cape

Pants

Torso And Arms