how so? i tried making the low res mech of the tire smaller than the high res, and getting the envelope to find the high res details, and tried the other way around, and both times the inner relief...

for a displacement map i should have Nurbs right? but i wanted to work on polygons :( (low poly meshes dont work well with displacement, right?)
i was able to do a nice normal map for the diamond...

Hi again.
well, i really need some help here :(
i now did a normal map on a tire i had, and again, the normal map gives me way too less relief as it should have from the original high poly mesh :(...

well, my jaws have fallen.. :S sry for the continuous post, but after your response i went again to try on the original tread tile and not only it worked, i then tried the biger tile i had made, and...

any news yet? :S could this be a Maya problem? some weird settings? altough i'd believe i havent change anything related to this..
as i said i followed several simple video tutorials on youtube and...

the map is connected as a bump map with the option "Use As" Tangent Space Normals".
but could there be something wrong with my Maya? that is somehow doing the Maps Wrong? the normal map file seems...

hmm, what do you mean flipped UVs? do you mean the normals? i checked there a while ago and the normals are OK, the UVs are layed out like the normal map is. :(
i thought of something, the envelope...

Hmm, i did a new fast teste, and something seems defenetly wrong with this :S not sure if it is some settings or if i am missing something here :S again, i know litle about this, only some theory i...

For the past hours i have been trying to put into work the few knowledge i had on normal maps, and so far i have had nothing :(

I was initially trying to create a diamond plate sheet to create a...

I put the Hypershade sorting the shaders by name and still it doesnt sort them correctly! i have a C after W and pR pR pN pR.. and still it doesnt changes the order they appear when i right click :S...