Maya 2016-17 viewport 2.0 normal map issue

Obriy · Dec 2016

Hi fellas, I faced some problem with normal maps display in viewport 2.0. This issue exists only since maya 2016 version. Turning off Gamma 2.0 helps, nm looks better, but still incorect, it doesn't solve the problem. I hope somebody knows how to fix this.

- viewport 2.0

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/7c/ier9ea3gec6t.jpg

- legacy high quality viewport

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/e8/6pyukvby0a01.jpg

dur23 · Dec 2016

Hey! this was a new thing that they introduced in maya 2016. Basically all images are stored as sRGB but that's no good for normal maps. So you have to set your normal maps to RAW. And basically every time you re-import the image it'll flip it to sRGB.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Maya/files/GUID-CEFA09DB-8D7A-4059-8434-551387A88E8C-htm.html

oglu · Dec 2016

there are naming convention rules in the prefs... set "_norm" to raw and it should work from now on..

Obriy · Dec 2016

wow! Thank you, guys, it works!

[HP] · Jan 2018

oglu said:

there are naming convention rules in the prefs... set "_norm" to raw and it should work from now on..

Yes indeed.

This is how you need to do it, kinda retarded Maya automatically detect normal maps and sets them to RAW automatically, but oh well.

Maya 2016-17 viewport 2.0 normal map issue

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