UE3 - UT3 skeletal mesh unlit and normal problem?

[jgibz]

Hi everyone,
I'm fairly new to the ue3, and I've been having trouble displaying the normals on my character. Also when I put the mesh into a map it looks completely black/unlit.

here are some screens:

Maya viewport:

ue3 viewer:

in game:

Im using .tga for color, specular and normals, all 1024x1024
TIA for any advice

 

[Slaughter]

As far as I know UT3 uses an inverted Greenchannel in it´s normals.

About the blackness:
How did you set up your material?

 

[jgibz]

damn, i don't have the original high res it's an older model and I lost the file but still have the normal map, from mudbox v1.0

anyone know of a normal texture editing software that can flip channels?

could the model showing up black be a result of the normal map?

*my material:

 

[Dogger]

Open the normal map tga in photoshop, open up the channels tab, click on the green channel and invert it. Being black is nothing to do with your normal map, might be because you havent rebuilt your lights or the light is inside the character.

 

[jgibz]

Wow thanks!

 

[Anuxinamoon]

If its a skeletal mesh you may need to set up your lights lighting channel to Dynamic.

Select your light. Hit f4. open up the lightings tab, find the lighting channels tab and check the Dynamic checkbox.

 

[jgibz]

That fixed it, thanks for the info