Tangent Space Normal problem

razeverius

Hi there! This is my first post here in the polycount forum but I've been following and going through this site for quite a long time now Anyway,

I'm running into a Normal Map problem. The normals are all facing the proper direction but somehow I'm getting this weird problem whenever I set the normal to tangent space normal in Maya, it somehow gets, flipped? I tried flipping the R and G in photoshop but the prob still won't disappear. I've encountered a similar problem before and was not able to solve it I do wish I'll be able to solve it now




The normals came from Zbrush my settings are Tangent, Adaptive, SmoothUV and SNormals

EarthQuake

Try viewing with a realtime shader, or the HQ viewport mode with a blinn in maya.

razeverius

EarthQuake wrote: »

Try viewing with a realtime shader, or the HQ viewport mode with a blinn in maya.

ohh the last picture is a render with mr.As you can see, the seams show up and well the left side is flipped. I've encountered a similar problem before with an old project. I wasn't able to solve it.

razeverius

This sounds really stupid and simple but all I had to do was set the Color Profile of the Normal map to Linear sRGB so that one side wouldn't be flipped :poly118: At least I can finally sleep

wobyen

Thanks for responding with your solution! I'm always finding some new (and equally "stupid") problem with normal maps, so every fix is helpful.

Good luck!

razeverius

wobyen wrote: »

Thanks for responding with your solution! I'm always finding some new (and equally "stupid") problem with normal maps, so every fix is helpful.

Good luck!

No prob! Hope my silly solution will help others out and not pull their hair like I did!