so I got this normal map from a unreal engine 5.x game, and i have no idea how to make it properly work with blender shader nodes

its a screenshot cause its originally a TGA and the filesize too large, its also in its orignal sRBG format. The file is also titles as "NWO", which is something i could not find any info on

I have tried the image non-colour and inverting the green, then though the normal map nodes, all of the options, creates awful flat shading on the mesh

If this requires a mesh in order to work let me know

>>1011475 (OP)
Inspecting the channels will reveal it is a standard normal map with XY data in RG channels and non standard data in Z/B, Possibly Occlusion. You can unpack a normal map from just XY data and compute your Z from them at runtime, downsize is how it's more expensive to do and yield a bit lower quality normals. It's not uncommon for games to pack maps this way esp if they are on platforms that have size restrictions for limited drive space or memory.

>>1011482
For reference that is what it looks like with a reconstructed blue channel via xnormals in photshop.

>>1011483
hey anon im not op but thanks for the sweet UV map, i appreciate it

>>1011500
>>1011483

Endlessly appreciated, maybe finally i can figure out this odd normal map system this game has

thanks for the chuckle too

>>1011475 (OP)
>>1011483
both maps have similar XY vectors, simply reconstruct Z vector from XY

>>1011475 (OP)
heres one for you