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Forum Archive › Just curious – why do the high poly and low poly objects have to be directly on top of each other/in same position before … › Reply To: Just curious – why do the high poly and low poly objects have to be directly on top of each other/in same position before …
Sourcing my limited technical knowledge, I believe it has to do with global ray-casting. A good bake is dependent of the positional relationship between the high and low-poly version.