cage goes in wrong direction (xnormal)

CDeniz

My normals are facing the right way in maya. When I try to edit the cage in xnormal it goes in the wrong direction.


Anyone know how to fix this?

SpeCter

I don´t get what´s supposed to be wrong, as far as i understand everything is as it should(the cage points to the high poly)

dirigible

That's an odd issue. Triple-check that your low-poly normals are correct, I guess, and make sure that your export settings aren't missing anything.

SpeCter

Ah now i get it(i think), if you try to make the cage bigger it shrinks ?

Benton

Just wanted to say, I love your picture describing your problem

CDeniz

@SpeCter
Yep, when I try extruding the cage it goes towards the middle instead of outside.

I somehow got it working. The normals was facing the right way in maya, but when I imported it to zbrush it was reversed. So I reversed the normals, exported, baked normal map.

Exported to cryengine and the normals was still not correct, had to invert the green channel in PS.

I think I got it now though.

m4dcow

As is the solution to most things in Maya, try deleting the history :P

Also you can change how the normal maps are baked in xNormal to be Y + or -.

Shanthosa

Sometimes backface culling in Maya can be deceptive. Instead of using that in the viewport try using Display -> Polygons -> Face Normals to do your sanity checks, that usually will show you the truth of the matter.