I was wondering why I get this weird pinching and stretching effect in my normal maps. It only happens when I turn the Adaptive button ON in my normal map pallette. If I turn OFF the adaptive button the problems stops but it also cause my maps to be less detailed. How can I stop the adaptive button from doing this??
Adaptive doesn’t always produce better results - and perhaps not with less organic shapes like this. If you get the result you want without it then don’t use it. However, one thing you might try is to Shift+click the Tool>Geometry>Crease button at the lowest subdivision level. This tells ZBrush your mesh has hard edges and it calculates the maps accordingly. To remove the creases, Shift+click the Tool>Geometry>Uncrease button.
I get it now. thanks a lot for the quick reply!