Normal combine result looks ugly :(

DigitalCrest

So I have trouble merging 2 normal maps together in Designer. I have 2 normal maps, 1 baked from high poly (no cage) and one detail normal map blended from multiple material instances. I'd need to combine the two in order to add the detail normals to the base, but dependless of mode the result from normal combine node looks just wrong. Is there something I've done wrong, or is this just something better done outside of Designer? I also tried baking a height map in order to use basic blending instead, but there were creases where there should have been edges, so it didn't work out.

Here's the maps and results.
Baked map:

Detail map. As you can see, it's very subtle, but it is there.

And here's the combined result. Somehow the detail get's emphasized a lot on certain parts.

Jerc

I'm not sure what is going on with the normal blending but your baked normal looks wrong already, like if you had inverted normals on either your high or low poly.

DigitalCrest

Yeah, that was what I was thinking of first, but after trying with a cage, fiddling with the meshes and even testing with xnormal it still looks like that. Also the face normals are fine what I checked. Here's a close up pic of the wing part (low, high and both poly versions). To my understanding everything should be fine. I'll also link the meshes I used for baking in case someone want's to see them up close.


Low poly exploded mesh: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14462293/obj_Shield_Low_exploded.fbx
High poly: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14462293/obj_Shield_High_exploded.fbx