Normal Maps and Groves

knife tool.

if you want to have all of them connected you can either use grid fill (if its hollow) or triangulate if you have n-gons

>>555618
Cool thats much better thanks!

Anyone as to my question about normals?

>>555628
you have to do retopology in order to get a normal map

>>555617
>Does that mean if you simply use the high poly model in (say a game) then it doesn't need a normal map?

Yes, but the whole point of a "low poly" model with "high poly" details (achieved by Baking textures, normals, and so on from the high poly model) is that it's less memory intensive.

That's true for game engines (that have to display many models, textures, lights, and do computations in real time) and also for your renderer; the more dense your mesh, the higher the resolution on the textures, the more objects in the scene, the longer your render will take longer

>>555631
>you have to do retopology in order to get a normal map

You need to do the UVs for the bake target, but you don't need to retopologize (a process done on the high poly to create a low poly, or to fix / allow for animation of a mesh) anything.

You do, however, need some supporting geometry in your low poly (in particular you often need verts to line up) for the best possible result