Notice how the mesh is shaded like crap, despite being totally smooth shading with no double verts, creases, or seams.
The normal map is just a png with your standard RGB channels.
Looks like you ported in a game asset, Blender cycles gets a little pissy sometimes with 5 sided poles, And it tends to get very pissy when there is poles with more then five sides.
You could try retopology or maybe relaxing some of the angles.
Hmm, I see. Any news on the team fixing this? Or will I just have to mess with the topology?
subdividing it… 3 times, as well as using the convert tris to quads tool helps. Thank goodness for open subdiv I guess, it’s still feasible even with a hefty subdivide.
i too have issues with smooth surface effecting the mesh shading, even on trying very low poly objects to avoid this issue ,subdivide , bevel edge split recalculate nothing solves it other than subsurface ,or if someone can help me would be well appreciated
