is this a UV map mismatch?

brownedave2

[UV map mismatch] or maybe something else?  Not sure.  I'd love input on this if anyone can help me out.  I'm new to Maya.   Though, I don't know if it is even a problem with maya, or a problem with the normal maps somehow?  I need to know what the problem even is before I can do much to fix it.

The problem: I export a character as an FBX from Daz, then import into Maya with the script.  For some reason the normal maps are misaligned pretty significantly.  Though, maybe it's not the UV map, but some setting that is making the normal map behave in some unusual way?  Though, i've cycled through every permutation of settings I can find pertaining to the normal maps, so I don't know.  The diffuse maps are all perfectly fine.  I force the normal maps to use the same UV as the assosiated diffuse textures and he normals still look off.  I've been trouble shooting this somewhat already and can't figure it out.  Hoping that someone will take a look at this and go - oh, that's clearly a problem with the "xyzw's" and clue me in on what those x's, y's and z's are.  I'm lost. :S

I imagine that if there is some bad matchup with colour space, then the normal map would be interpreted incorrectly, maybe that's it?  

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Edit: reformulated question. "what is wrong with this picture?"  

Does anyone else get this? This happens with every model I import.  Feedback from someone else who uses Maya would be great.

I can load a bump map in with no problem at all.  Only normal maps seems messed up.  I'm pretty sure I habe the normal map set up properly.  I've baked normals from mudbox to work with the gen8 mesh with no problems.  For some reason the standard normals that come from the characters arn't working though.

Asari

I use the same normal map setup and I haven't encountered this issue. After a look at the name of the 2D texture file node in your shader setup, I noticed it has the ZBrush UDIM naming convention so the map was probably exported from ZBrush. Was the normal map exported properly from ZBrush with the correct settings for the Arnold workflow?