Maya average normals averaged unintentionally

TannedBatman

This is causing weird bakes, I know this because I manually changed the direction and it fixed it

I believe this may be causing issues elsewhere and Im wondering why its averaging normals as such and how to have it average in a more expected manner. My uvs stop at hard edges btw and most of the mesh is exploded.

You can see here the vertex normals on the arch are horizontal, shouldnt they be pointing downwards to some degree for best results? Thanks in advance and lmk if any clarification is necessary.

kio

yellow means locked normals in maya - so all your normals are 'custom'

guess your confused by this - so i think you should unlock normals and reset hard edges, and it will behave as expected.

TannedBatman

Ah your right, such a simple answer thank you