MDDN 343, Project 1B, Mapping

Adding my normal map onto my character turned out a little more difficult that I expected.

Here is my original normal map which I extracted from my Mudbox file

At first I was 100% if this is what a normal map should look like so i thought that this was fine.
When bringing it into Maya though a couple things went wrong. Here is a image of how it turned out in Maya

As you can see the stuff on the back came out properly.
But for some reason the tentacles screwed up a little bit and some gaps were created. I thought this is weird because I never touched those tentacles in Mudbox.

To get around this I did a lot of google searching and found out that I might of needed to edit my UV map in Photoshop.
After editing my Normal Map this is the outcome

As you can see its quite different from my original normal map. But it did help a little bit. Here is an image with this new normal map added to it.

This came out a lot better. To edit the map I had to mark the places around the head and the tentacle and match them to the surrounding parts of the normal map.