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Might be a newbie question, but I've never really dived that deeply into Maya texturing/rendering. I'm trying to texture using only the nodes available in Maya2026, but it seems like connecting the aiNormalMap messes with the rendered image? The lighting on the objects look otherwise fine without the normal maps. here is the nodes for the image on the left and the image on the right I'm really not sure where the mistake is, I tried connecting the nodes to "Input" instead of "Normal" in the aiNormal, but the shading is still messed up, just in a different way. I set the operation in aiLayerRgba as normal map too. Is this a render setting issue? I'm using Arnold 5.5.5 and tried converting it to openPBR instead of aiStandardSurface, using sequence render, and flushing all Arnold caches but it didn't seem to help.

Might be a newbie question, but I've never really dived that deeply into Maya texturing/rendering. I'm trying to texture using only the nodes available in Maya2026, but it seems like connecting the aiNormalMap messes with the rendered image? The lighting on the objects look otherwise fine without the normal maps. here is the nodes for the image on the left and the image on the right I'm really not sure where the mistake is, I tried connecting the nodes to "Input" instead of "Normal" in the aiNormal, but the shading is still messed up, just in a different way. I set the operation in aiLayerRgba as normal map too. Is this a render setting issue? I'm using Arnold 5.5.5 and tried converting it to openPBR instead of aiStandardSurface, using sequence render, and flushing all Arnold caches but it didn't seem to help.