Strange Issues with Substance

rob_zlt

hello! so ive been modeling the Good Samaritan from the Hellboy series and I finally got to the texturing phase when I ran into this problem (which is present even after baking). This strange AO? issue, not sure what this is called. I tried to harden edges and did some UV tweaking but to avail. I would really appreciate any kind of input here. I'll be continuing to troubleshoot to see if I can solve it. Thanks!  

poopipe

Your normals are busted.  Did this come out of maya? 

rob_zlt

Oh is that what it is? Yes it did, I manage to fix one of the pieces by going back into maya and reinforce some edges on the model and redoing the UVs 

poopipe

If it's different from what you see in maya it suggests your mesh needs history deleting, normals unlocking and resetting etc. before re export 

rob_zlt

awesome, gave that a retry and it worked, thanks for the help! much appreciated