Sharp Shading Problems on my Models

BIG_Scream

Hey, I have shading problems with some of my Models and I dont know, how to fix it or why they are there. Searched for so long, but didn't find an answer for that.

The sharp shadows are looking pretty unhealthy, you can see them in Renderings, in the viewport and I think the problems destroys my normalMap-baking.

I tried to fix it with some exports to zbrush, max14, maya, but it is still not okay...

Bartalon

I think that might be Max's two-direction lighting setup for the viewport. You should be able to set it to a single-lighting configuration in the options somewhere, the location of which escapes me at the moment.

On a side note, how's it look in your target engine? That's all that matters, and you should be viewing it there to check its integrity anyway.

Xizu

Hm, some weird stuff is going on there. It looks like either the normals are flipped in some places, or there is intersecting geometry such as double faces.

Can you show the low poly with individual face shading (each face on its own smoothing group) and the high poly smoothed, how do they look without any maps?

Other than that, have you set sharp edges in areas where your UV splits are?

BIG_Scream

Hey, thank you for your tips, but it didn't solve it

Here are four more Pictures, with another model of mine, where it happens.
Picure 5 is the unsmoothed model, Picture 4 is the highpoly and picute 3 is the lowpoly without any map...

hmm there are no Overlapping faces or n-gons in it, I studied to create valid models and solve problems like that, but now im really helpless

Xizu

So, where are you displaying the models? In Max? Have you tried a different software, Marmoset or Xnormal, to see how it looks there?

BIG_Scream

Yeah i try to display it in Max, i am usually Rendering my Assets there i tried zBrush and Maya, not very cool

BIG_Scream

Nobody has got an Idea? :S