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  1. I get a flipped polygon after Cycles bake.

How to resolve it?

  1. When I apply the normal map I get the strange, sharp shadow on the border between dark side and light side of the cylinder.

Is it bad baking or very low polygon mesh?

How to improve it?

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After recalculating normal on the lowpoly mesh (Ctrl+N), and shading it smooth rather than flat, I found only one small error remained, and it was caused by the light, not the map. so here is the re-baked normal map, but if you see a really sharp contrasting shadow, it's a different problem.

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  • $\begingroup$ Actually, I just did it without recalculating normal and it worked fine... weird. $\endgroup$
    – ruckus
    Oct 12, 2015 at 18:42
  • $\begingroup$ thank you, but I still can't get the correct normal mask. Can you please tell your action step by step? $\endgroup$
    – Ilya Kanatov
    Oct 12, 2015 at 19:44
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    $\begingroup$ that is really weird... :/ I don't know how to help. It must be a Mac-blender bug, because it works perfectly on my windows and my linux $\endgroup$
    – ruckus
    Oct 12, 2015 at 19:45

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