Tree Foliage Lighting Problem - Bad Shadows

DriveJunky95

I'm currently at a loss as to how I can fix the shadows on my tree foliage. I noticed that the shadows throughout the leaves are repeated - they're circled in red. In other words, the exact same shadows are appearing on different parts of the tree giving it a really unrealistic feel. The foliage is made of one repeated branch. Pictures below. Any ideas?







Maya: BEFORE combing mesh


Maya: AFTER combining mesh


Thanks in advance.

EDIT:

Is it because I have overlapping UVs? If so, should I be assigning separate UV layouts to the different UV channels in UDK? May have answered my own question hah.

DonCornholio

Pretty much i guess ^^ . If you got your leaves uv's overlapping in the second channel, then udk will try to bake the lightning information for each leave on the same space.

Santewi

Use a second UV layout without any overlapping for the lightmaps.