CryEngine Normal Map (?) Problem

Eliteabix

Hey guys, fairly new to CryEngine, and modelling/texturing in general (few months experience), most of my in-engine experience has been with UDK, far more comfortable with that platform.

anyway, Ive been struggling getting normal maps to act correctly in Cryengine, and ive spent hours fiddling around trying to get it right, Ive had this problem before but managed to sort it somehow, pictures will probably speak for themselves -

Render in Marmoset (Just Normal map and Baked Occlusion from HP)


In Cryengine (Same Maps)



as you can see its looking pretty ugly in Cryengine, Ive tried flipping the green channel and it makes it worse

If anyone has any experience with this help would be greatly appreciated

cheers

EmAr

I'd try baking the map with their application.

Eliteabix

Oh, yet to try that, Ill give it a go - Cheers for the reply.

RC-1290

Those ridges on top of the model look like shadow mapping artifacts to me. I'm probably mistaken though. Normal maps don't influence the depthmap of the light source, do they?

EarthQuake

Do you need to invert the green channel?

SlyRipper

I would use most of their suggested tools as I never ran into problems with it. Just use the Photoshop Plugin and export a .tif map selecting the "normalmap" preset so it takes every important information to CryEngine. On the other hand you need -Y channel on CE normalmaps. You can bake them basically with the program you like (I used xNormal) and then re-save it via the crytiff plugin.

Eliteabix

Yeh thats what I did SlyRipper, also tried both + and - Green channel with no sucess, Im fairly sure the normal map is fine tho because Ive had this problem in the past and got it fixed, just cant for the life of me remember how

RC-1290 wrote: »

Those ridges on top of the model look like shadow mapping artifacts to me. I'm probably mistaken though. Normal maps don't influence the depthmap of the light source, do they?

Yeh, not too worried about the shadow map artifacts, its more clear on the second picture where the normal map seems inverted

Eliteabix

Just an update, I knew it was something trivial, I saved the mesh THEN applied crytek shader in max then exported rather than saving it with the shader applied