Well people, I'm working on this model for a scholar project, the problem is that ZBrush isn't exactly exporting usable normals.. I exported the maps of the obdy and the armor as separated pieces after doing it together, both with bad results. Here's the basic topology. Hi topo Armor piece problem in low & hi topo My…
MAN! you saved me!! I've been fighting this since March.. why flip the green channel? never ever told me that was necesary.. do you know the technical explanation about it?? TKS again..:)
did you try flipping the green channel? i normally have tangent and adaptive on when trying to bring out normals from zbrush, though i dont think ive ever had smoothuvs and snormals on
There's basically no set standard for how shaders read normal maps, so I think it basically comes down to whoever is writing the code for it at the time. It's common for bakers like zbrush and xnormal (and renderers like marmoset) to give the user options for how they want a specific channel to be used. "Most apps tend to…