Thanks Beppe that seems to have solved it for now. The update window had me believe I was on the latest version. Apparently not so!

Thanks for your help,

Simon

Hi Beppe,
Please see the files you requested attached.
Thanks for all your help.
Simon

Sure, I'll do this tomorrow AM when I'm back int front of my machine. However, the node editor is not causing crashes, it's just very difficult to use. When i click on nodes they don't respond and when I use my mouse buttons for scale in on window etc, and then release these mouse buttons, the ...

Hi,
I've upgraded to R21 and have installed the Octane V4 plug-in and I have the V4 stand alone. Since moving from R20 to R21 and moving to V4 I've found the node editor really hard to use. Nodes are hard / impossible to select when i click on them. I close the editor and re-open then I can select ...

Hi Tonyboy,
Can you explain further?

Hey Beppe,
I recalculated the normal map in Tangent mode. I then turned the colour surrounding the normals to the same purple as in your map: 128,128,255

The result is better, but I get a hard edge there the cube UVs touch. Please see the attached render image.

What's the best way to avoid this ...

Thanks Beppe,
This is really useful and I tried it myself with reasonable success.
Could you tell me a bit more about the bevelling you seem to have applied in Photoshop to the edge of the UVs and how I should approach this for my UV maps. It seems to prevent the obvious edges where UV edges meet on ...

Hi Aoktar
Any thoughts on this?
Thanks,
Simon

Hi Aoktar,
I've attached an example file. A simple sculpted cube test with 4k displacement and normal maps.
Cube is correctly UV'd. Sculpt cube subdivided to 7 ande baked down to a base mesh of 3. Bake settings attached.

As you'll see, geometric artefacts occur around the sculpt and where the cube ...

Thanks for replying Aoktar,
I'm away from my PC today but will post a detailed example tomorrow, about 24 hours from now.
Simon