Aside from gameplay bugs, there are a lot of unpolish visual elements in New Vegas. I haven't seen any mention of them yet.

Incorrect normal map:
Just about every new asset has incorrect normal map. Outfit/armor, Rex, Super Mutant, and maybe weapons, too. The normal has to have inverted green channel in order to render the lighting direction correctly in this particular game engine.
http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss207/Zenlren/BadMarcus.jpg
http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss207/Zenlren/CorrectMarcus.jpg

Unpolish rig/skin:
http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss207/Zenlren/RigError2.jpg
http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss207/Zenlren/RigError3.jpg
http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss207/Zenlren/RigError1.jpg

Holes/Floaty parts
http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss207/Zenlren/Hole1.jpg
http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss207/Zenlren/Hole2.jpg

Some of the New Vegas asset like the followers' outfit, combat ranger armor, and Remnant armor look really polish, where the legion armor, reinforce leather armor, new combat armors, and some of the NCR armors are fell in comparison. Not to mention a lot of weapons need retex. (I'm sure you all familiar with Arenovalis' work)

These are a few that came to mind.
Report it here and if the developer don't fix them then maybe modders will.

Yep, I noticed a lot of that sort of stuff. I've fixed some of it with the construction set, GIMP, and Blender, but yes, it is annoying that the game developers couldn't even get mappings right, considering that what? 70% of meshes/textures were already made for FO3.

I thought Marcus's face was off somehow...

The problem with normal maps is that there is no real convention as to which way the colors in a normal map channel align. That leads to no end of confusion.

I thought something looked strange about my chest. I'm using a no-magic-underwear/topless mesh and my characters chest looks inverted, like Marcus' face. I'll post screens later.

Someone needs to fix Reinforced combat armors MK1 and MK2... bad.

There is a tangent basis convention per engine. And at the end of the day, that is all that matters.

Many use max standards.
Many popular engines, Unreal, gamebryo, and cryengine2 renderers do. I even think IDtech does too, they just 'swizzle' the channels. Dragon Age devs used max for baking as well.

This should never happen. The art lead on this needs a kick in the balls for letting the flipped g channel slip. School boy error. Honestly the art pipe should have been well aware of the how the normal map shader is set up.

This makes me wonder what they use as a baker at obsidian. default settings in max's baker will flip the green channel.

Weird.

I did a very quick-and-dirty test and that does seem to be the case. I had just assumed that the default appearance was due to surviving some form of pox and general malnutrition. :shrug: Makes me wonder how many other normal maps are messed up.

What exactly is wrong with the Mk1? Is it the lack of a pipboyon/pipboyoff arm setup?

I made a more feminine-shaped female Mk1 armor, complete with proper Pipboy arm portions.

Also, to be fair, Unpolished Rig/Skin #2 is on a mesh made by gamesas, not Obsidian.

As I stated if it's a new asset, then it probably have incorrect normal map, but if it comes from FO3 then it probably is ok.



I'm thinking they rush the item out. I feel it doesn't look as good as some of the follower's outfits or the ranger outfit, eketera. Inconsistent quality. FO3 combat armor looks a lot better.

I don't remember the T-51b clipping like that during running motion in FO3. The new animation probably cause that and Obsidian didn't adjust the mesh or the skin.

Nuh-uh. The Reinforced Combat Armor MkI looks awesome compared to the FO3 combat armor (and the MkII combat armor, which looks really really ugly).