Greetings. Hope this is the right thread.
I am encountering a UV/Normals problem when using GoZ from Zbrush (4.6) to Maya (2014).
The problem is: unexpected/wrong results. I’ve put up together a summary of steps taken and end result.
Thanks in advance if someone can bring some light.
what do your UVs look like?
Thanks for your reply.
Not sure if this is what you are asking…
what happens if you just export your mesh as a .obj and your normal as a .psd and apply them in maya?
You will get better results rendering with Mental Ray. Turn on Mental Ray and in the render settings, options tab check Maya Derivatives.
@beta_channel, It didn’t seem to work (as long as I applied the normal map properly)
These are the steps I took and the end result.
@Zeesculptor, it worked. Although I get a funny feeling from not knowing why the “default process” (Goz, or just importing the .obj and applying normal map) didn’t work.
Will read about the Maya Derivates, cause I have no clue what that is.
Thanks to both of you for taking time to help me out.
I recomend this other settings for NormalMaps for Maya.
Some times with the SmoothUV selected you will have your Normal Map Srinked a bit. So it gets better results for me using like the picture above
Looking in your first image i think that is caused because you are using Object Normal But you generated Tangent Normals in ZBrush
Another thing i allways do in Maya is keep the Filter Type in None
Hope this helps
I’m not familiar with the settings Maya’s renderer might want, but the last image looks like a candidate for flipping/inverting the green channel. You can do this on the map itself instead of rebaking, so it’s a quick test that might make a difference.
Thanks @][-][4Z4R][)) (Fran) and @Cryrid, have plenty of reading to do from here.
Tried playing with inverting green and other Normal map setting, and didn’t work for me.
For the quick render test I was after, the Mental Ray solution provided by @ZeeSculptor by seems to do it.
If I ever find out why the “straight from the box” steps didn’t work for me, will post again here.
Stay out of trouble!