I'm new to 3d and I've been making an insect model.

i think light bounce off normals so its simply not an issue.
make a specular map to control that

Notice the shadow on B and lack of on A. The light is pointed in different directions.

>>524136
I said in the OP that the light was placed in the same location, yet the shadows and reflections are located in different areas.

>>524149
Post your normal map, it looks like its base values are off. Pick a color in an area that's supposed to be flat, if it's not near 127/127/255 (0.5,0.5,1) it's off.

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>>524150
Here it is senpai

>>524152
Doesn't look like it's off. Did you change the normals of you object's vertices?

>>524154
No. I made the mesh in Maya, and then subdivided it twice. Then I took the model into ZBrush and sculpted in at SD level 6. Exported that as an .obj, then used xnormal to bake the normal map onto the original mesh.

>>524156
Then I have no idea what's causing this, sorry.

>>524157
No worries, thanks for replying

>>524132

Did you create a specular map to tell it where to place the highlight. Try the model In marmoset, I find the 3d programs bad for previewing normal maps.

>>524160
No specular map, but I tried it out in UE4 and it works fine. Fucking Maya viewport.

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>>524162
Was literally talking shit about Maya 30 seconds ago for this exact reason

Use Modo scrub