Normal map gradient errors. What is causing this in this image? And how do I fix this?

Travis C

Before baking, in maya I set to face, softened all edges, then hardened all the UV seams.

My xnormal settings:


I've tried fixing it in photoshop with the clone and smudge tools, but it doesn't work. How should I proceed from here if I want to fix this normal map error?


the image was rendered in 3do, with the ue4 presets

Obscura

Thats a triangulation error. Triangulate your mesh before baking/export.

musashidan

As an aside, painting out errors on your normal map is bad practice and should really be avoided  

Travis C

Obscura said:

Thats a triangulation error. Triangulate your mesh before baking/export.

I just triangulated my lowpoly and made a new cage from that for xnormal, then baked.
But I am still getting the same exact errors. 

Any idea what else could be causing this?

perhaps do I have to re-soften and re-harden uv border edges again? 

EDIT: ok after some flopping around I just realized that I had to also replace my lowpoly mesh with the triangulated version instead of just the re-made normal map.