How can I bake normal maps from a high poly mesh to a low poly mesh in Blender Cycles?

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July 19, 2015 at 5:07 pm #4292
Elijah Salberg
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How can I bake normal maps from a high poly mesh to a low poly mesh in Blender Cycles?
July 20, 2015 at 1:30 pm #22283
Kent Trammell
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Personally I don’t recommend using Cycles for normal map baking. Here’s a lesson on doing it with Blender Render, which is faster: https://cgcookiearchive.com/blender/lessons/5-normal-map-baking/

Use the same process for Cycles, just change the engine from “Blender Render” to “Cycles”.
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