Unreal 3 editor mesh problem

izu

Hello there, I'm new here but I've been lurking for a while.

I'm having a bit of a problem, or at least I think so, regarding a mesh I've been working on. It's a character, part of a school project where I do more in depth work in modeling and texturing and then take it into unreal 3 editor.

When looking on my character in the mesh preview it looks horrible in certain lighting angles. I've put together an image to show you what I mean.




I personally think it looks ok when the light is from below, but I want it to work from all angles. But I don't know what I've done wrong, my guess is it has something to do with the smoothing?


And try to ignore the hair, it's still a w.i.p.

Thanks in advance for your help

|*BILLY$CLINT*|

What editor are you using to move the light around the Mesh? Is it in the static mesh one or the animation one? Also what type of mesh is this object is it a static mesh or a skeletal mesh?

izu

I'm not sure exactly what it is called, but it's a static mesh and I just double-click on the mesh in my package (in the generic tab) to see the preview.

coldkodiak

Lets see the low poly mesh without the normal.

bigger pics plz too.

izu

Ok here we go. :poly122:
It's my first serious try at a character so I know it probably sucks. But it worked fine in Maya so it feels like I might have exported it wrong somehow (I used ActorX)

JordanW

normal maps look like they could be wrong, is your green channel facing down?

MoP

yeah it looked to me like the green channel is inverted. open it in PS, select green channel and hit CTRL+I to invert it, then try re-importing to unreal.

izu

Yes! Inverting the green channel did the trick. Thanks a lot guys, I'll have to note this down.