Solved Maya Normal Issue

Axemeister · Nov 2017

Hey there. I'm having an issue in Maya to do with normals/edge smoothing.

When baking the normal with edges set to face, the normal comes out fine. But as soon as i smooth edges i start to get horrible artifacts in the baked normal. (Big curved line in the middle of the face) Here is a screenshot of the baked normal in marmoset and my UVs. I cant see any problems with UV stretching or anything along those lines. It seems to be something to do with maya normals and I have tried reversing/set to face etc.

Thanks in advance for any help

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/29/ur48y3nd6bci.jpg

Joopson · Nov 2017

Can you post a picture of the low poly, shaded? With no texture on it? It looks like it's a problem with your Low's normals, for sure.

Axemeister · Nov 2017

Axemeister · Nov 2017

I think i've accidentaly fixed it. Was just messing about with everything in the normals settings. In the Set to face drop down I changed it to "unlock vertex face normals" instead of "Match face normal". Then after i smoothed the edges the bake seemed to work fine.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/de/w6uoin5qnhjj.jpg

Axemeister · Nov 2017

Cheers for trying to help out anyway

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