Hey there, My god that final image is nightmare fuel haha! Have you tried looking at the Arnold documentation for this? I recall having an issue with this before as well, it's worth browsing through. You might also try updating to Arnold 5, it's free with your Maya/Arnold 4 license. Here's the workflow for bump/normal…
Hi! I'm starting to pull my hair out with this problem so I was hoping someone here might have a solution to some technical difficulties I've been having with the Arnold shader and render software. I'm working on a 3D character model that I want to render with fur and SSS material for the skin. I'm using xGen in Maya 2017…