Flat normals destroying shading?

Goeddy

So i've been trying to bake some normals,
it didn't quite work out, i tried all kinds of hacks and workarounds until i figured out:
even if i apply a flat normal map (128,128,255) marmoset will completely destroy my shading?

how is this even possible? how am i supposed to get a descent looking normal map in marmoset now?

i am using the latest version of marmoset 2 the normal is in tiff format.
the mesh in this scene is an obj, but i've tried fbx too, with the same result.
if i use a object space normal map, i don't have any seems at all. but that realy can't be the solution.

edit:
solution is not to use .tiff

Goeddy

fixed it myself now

don't use tiff is the solution.
if you use .png and hit the scale&bias, it works perfectly.

just can't believe how much time i wasted because of this bug.

Wozner

Wow, thanks for the sharing. Didn't know, that texture format can cause such issue

Goeddy

its actually xnormals fault... via default settings it saves out a 16 bit .tiff
wich seems to screw up everything in marmoset.

almighty_gir

it's the .tiff loader in marmoset. if you want to keep using 16bit normals, save the tiff as a psd file and load that in instead.

EarthQuake

Just a couple things:

Always have scale and bias on.
Make sure you're exporting mesh normals (not just smoothing groups).

Dragonar

Hi , I have the same problem of you Goeddy. And for me if I use .tiff .png or .tga I have the same result.

BUT if you see my post, I maybe find a "way" to explain this problem.

I have a good result with not streched UV... really strange.