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Forum Archive › Why does the ray fire from the cage’s edge along the average normal? › Reply To: Why does the ray fire from the cage’s edge along the average normal?
Martin’s picture above is perfect! A cage only works because it has the exact same vertices as the low poly object. The bake can then use the imaginary line that’s drawn in between each matching vertex to guide the rays INSTEAD of using the normals.
