Answered: Faceted normal after using photoshop

yk89031

Hey there!

I'm having this problem with glossy surface appearing faceted. When I bake normals using xnormal (saving as .tif), the normal is great and the glossy surface remains smooth. However when I put normal through photoshop (to be more specific, Quixel Suite), it appears faceted after that. I tried saving the file in many formats including .tga, .png, .tif

I also, tried to just open the .tif in PS and to save it immediately as .tif, so no modifications were done to the texture. Same result.

Do you have any idea what is causing it?

FourtyNights

xNormal bakes 16-bit .tif files. When you import them to PS, go to Image -> Mode -> change to 8-bit. It converts the image to 8-bit with a very slight noise dithering.
But I'm not sure how Quixel Suite handles 16-bit textures, or does it support it either.

Eric Chadwick

Moving this to the Quixel subforum, you're more likely to get help there.

Synaesthesia

SUITE does support 16-bit textures.

I'm not sure what would cause this without a glance at your input files. Could you perhaps send them to me? My e-mail is jonathan @ quixel . se

yk89031

Thank you! I tried what you suggested FourtyNights, but no change unfortunately.
Thanks for offer Synaesthesia, I will try to send them to you next week as I'm away from my working PC now.