weird normal map issues

imk · Feb 2013

Hi, i am using mudbox and maya. The details are not appearing as what i wanted.

Here's the sculpt in mudbox.

Here's the one in maya

You can see the indented shape.

Here's the uv

I hope someone can enlighten me with the problem.

much thanks

.Wiki · Feb 2013

When these are baked details then your texture resolution is probably to small. And you need a specular on your material in maya too.

EarthQuake · Feb 2013

This looks like an issue with UV smoothing. Are you baking down to a sub-divided mesh? If so, why? It looks like your uvs are being smoothed in the middle of the uv islands but not on the edges.

Also, where did you bake your normal map, and onto which mesh?

imk · Feb 2013

yea i realized that my uv are smoothed except for the edges whenever i entered sub d mode. Is that something it shouldnt be doing?

I baked my nm in mudbox, onto my low res model.

imk · Feb 2013

Thanks, i fixed it just now. Turned off the smooth uv option under the shape node

weird normal map issues

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