Advanced Member alvordr Posted June 24, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 Hello, all. I created this bread yesterday and put it into the UDK. It looks fine in most applications, and even in UDK's Static Mesh preview, it looks fine (see image 1). However, when I put it in a scene, I can see where the UV seams are on the model (see image 2). I exported with Smoothing Groups on from 3ds Max to try to fix this, but no use. Anyone have any ideas on why this is happening and/or how to fix it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Garagarape Posted June 24, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 Did you try to invert the green channel of your normal map texture? The normal map is differently handled from engines to engines. Nice breads! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor digman Posted June 24, 2013 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 Another thing to look at is your normal export settings under the Preferences menu. It is just a suggestion as you had not stated you tried that already... That is great looking low polygon bread, nice job... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member alvordr Posted June 24, 2013 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 @Garagarape A good thought and I tried it, but no luck. @Digman I didn't bake out the materials, so perhaps I should try that instead of the standard export. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Garagarape Posted June 24, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 Hard edges then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member alvordr Posted June 24, 2013 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 Nope, the trick to fixing this was: ...a setting I never bothered to mess with before, as I didn't realize what it did. If you select your material in the browser, double click, properties, and uncheck the "Allow Lightmap Specular" option, this fixes the odd angular problems I saw in the mesh. However, I lost the specularity, altogether, until I used a dynamic light. This uses more instructions for the dynamic lighting, but I believe saves on the lightmap specular instructions. I can't say anything of the "behind the scenes" benefits, but it definitely looks better. Now it looks like this: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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