topic Re: Sculpt tools mess up normals in Maya 2020 in Maya Modeling Forum

Sculpt tools mess up normals in Maya 2020

adamzeliaszEBGV8 — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:56:48 GMT

When I use the sculpting brush, say the Grab tool, and start moving the mesh around the normals "break" and get distorted until I 'Soften Normals'. Even if I do that it still happens when I use the tools again. Is there a setting I'm missing? I tried to 'Unlock Normals' but that doesn't fix the problem.

Thoughts? Thanks.

Re: Sculpt tools mess up normals in Maya 2020

mspeer — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 10:02:04 GMT

Hi!

Please report this problem (bug?) to Autodesk.
In Maya main menu:
Help -> Speak Back -> Report a Problem

This seems to be happening with meshes that are not only based on quads

If you test this with a simple oily sphere, also faces can be deleted by this tool.

Re: Sculpt tools mess up normals in Maya 2020

Kyrla — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 13:10:58 GMT

I have the same problem. Some meshes work, some don't.

But in 2019 it works with all meshes!

There are only quads in the meshes I tested, so there must be another reason for that.

Re: Sculpt tools mess up normals in Maya 2020

Kyrla — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 15:36:09 GMT

me again;

I looked a bit closer at my mehs and it seems there are not only quads but it should work despite of that as it works in maya LT 2019!

Re: Sculpt tools mess up normals in Maya 2020

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 07:48:41 GMT

01. select the mesh with the messed up normals

02. go to Mesh display > set to Face options

03. in the "set to face Normal options" window select "unlock vertex face normals"

04. then click set to face and the mesh normals now will be corrected to face.

Re: Sculpt tools mess up normals in Maya 2020

Christoph_Schaedl — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 10:26:16 GMT

Thats a known bug. ::MAYA-102672

Re: Sculpt tools mess up normals in Maya 2020

chadvernon — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:47:52 GMT

This seems to be fixed in 2020.3

Re: Sculpt tools mess up normals in Maya 2020

rsharris632 — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 21:16:16 GMT

Ya I seem to be having the same problem in Maya 2020.4 version as well.