Normal map green channel oddity

16bit

When I rendered out this simple normal map of a twisted cord my green channel looks weird.





As you can see at the top, the green channel is only screwing up (Or is it?) on the fuse. The green channel looks just like the red channel only a little stronger. This happens no matter how I rotate the UVs.

I have never ran into a problem like this. I have reset xforms, Recreated the low poly geometry, and recreated the uv maps.

Maybe its the high poly model that is doing it?

Next

if u do bake in max then reset the xforms of the highpoly too ...if there are still modifiers in the stack on it collapse them too.
if after that it still doesnt render out right try to export both low and high and reimport them.
if the reimport doesnt help try bake in xnormal and see if u get similar results.
after that give an update
cheers

Neox

how does it look when applied to the lowpoly? you highpoly is pretty extreme in this part so it might be correct

16bit

It does look correct both in udk and 3ds. I have did an xform on the high poly, I'm going to collapse it now and try to bake.

16bit

Remade the geometry and it still created the same normal map.. Since it's rendering right I guess it's right.