Hi guys, I'm have some issues with the normals on some stitches I'm working on for a hand. The the stitches get heavily distorted when I back them out from the level 7 of a model down to its Base.

Here is how the high poly looks:

And here is how it looks baked out :

Here is my typology, maybe that's causing the model to bake out oddly?


Any suggestions on how to fix this would be greatly a appropriated.

How are the UVs?

But hey, check out this thread:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81154

It could very well be the issue.

Essentially, any deviations the low has from the curvature of the high causes distortion.
It may or may not be your problem.

have you turned off "smooth target" in the bake settings..?