Sculpt tools mess up normals in Maya 2020

[adamzeliaszEBGV8]

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.

[mspeer]

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.

[Kyrla]

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.

[Kyrla]

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!

[Anonymous]

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.

[Christoph_Schaedl]

Thats a known bug. ::MAYA-102672

[chadvernon]

This seems to be fixed in 2020.3

[rsharris632]

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