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Re: Normal maps/Symmetry seam question
@Obscura sure, take a look: "Sometimes an artist will decide to delete half of a symmetrical model before baking. This is a mistake however because often the vertex normals along the hole will bend towards the hole a bit; there are no faces on the other side to average the normals with. This will create a strong lighting… -
UV and normals transfer in 3dmax attribute transfer?
I need to transfer UV from initial low poly to dynameshed mesh from Zbrush . I usually use Data Transfer modifier in Blender for this . It sometimes does subtle mistakes around UV seams but usually it still works fine for further detailing in Zbrush . Gemini tells me 3d max got a massive update in 2026.1 version and now… -
Weighted Normals (Mid Poly) Workflow Clarification?
Hi all, I'm playing around with the mid poly workflow in maya and had a question regarding the workflow from modeling to texturing to engine as I have yet to find a proper answer on this from the different tutorials I've watched. This is my software setup. In case software version matters. Alot of research I've seen is… -
Re: yes doctor, it's about my normal maps
High quality preview is probably most accurate. I guess Mental Ray isn't very good at handling mirrored UVs on normal maps, and XNormal might not display it well because the maps were baked in Maya - I bet if you baked the maps in XNormal it would probably look fine in Xnormal but broken in Maya. Different apps have… -
My normal maps are blurry (and a mess)
Hi there, first time posting here and i have a question regarding normal maps. Ive just been trying to create a good normal map for an easy cylinder with an extruded ring around it, and the final normal map is a joke. Im using Maya 2018 for the mesh and xnormals for baking It looks really bad, so i thought i should ask… -
3Ds Max Normal Map problems after editing in Photoshop
Hi everyone I have been a lurker here for a long time, and have learned so much from you all. I currently am studying 3D art in Guatemala and our final project is an animated short film. Though I hope to get back into games in the future. Thing is I'm having a weird problem with normal maps. And since no place on the… -
Re: How do I fix mirrored UV seams in a normal map?
A stupid question... have you inverted the green channel of the normal map? I tell you this because if you generated the normal map using xNormal ( which uses an OpenGL coordinate system ) but you wanna preview it in 3dsmax ( which uses Z up ) probably need to generate the normal map in xNormal using a swizzling of… -
XNormal normal map problem?
Hi whenever i bake out my normal map from one of my models it doesnt look right compared to Normals baked out by people who know what they are doing -
Normal map tanget help
Hey Polycount, I have been working on a gun for my portfolio and it was going well until the normal map. I exported it out of max with .obj files and rendered out the maps in Xnormal with a cage. When viewed in the Xnormal 3D viewer it looks good(besides some small stuff that is my fault). Now I take it over to marmoset… -
Baking Fibermesh - Weird Normals/Smoothing Groups
Ey Polycount, I've been having a problem with baking fibermesh to a Low-Poly mesh with Xnormal or Maya. I get a really harsh gradient from pink to blue. And it seems the problem is the High-Polys smoothing groups and I can't seem to fix those in Maya by making the edges soft or hard or unlocking them. As you can see in the…
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