Hi everyone! I'm fairly new to Maya, this is my first full character in it, so I may just be missing a step. I'm running into an issue where whenever I have subsurface on, it turns off my normal map. At first I thought maybe the scale was killing the detail, but I dug in more, and even without scale, it just turns the normal map off, and is smooth. I wanted to see if anyone was familiar with this issue, or could point out the mistake I'm making?

Comparison:

Just Base Color:

https://preview.redd.it/xwsrbm9qd2xc1.jpg?width=627&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b2a2f0e7acc47210ab8fb00546f11d3547e9909

https://preview.redd.it/mw0voyvpd2xc1.jpg?width=786&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33d04406e83ee5e202dc5055155c4199f4a1767f

Just Subsurface, no Scale:

https://preview.redd.it/to33giexd2xc1.jpg?width=654&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3fae1c4daf6f31cc95369bd6f3d9957e8007e19d

https://preview.redd.it/k0t9hhexd2xc1.jpg?width=693&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d9d47a7e30964c90780c3154b38f1ca7406378d

It just goes smooth, and I'm not sure why. It might be another piece of subsurface I just don't understand completely, but when I've seen other people set their skin up, it's done a similar way and works.

This is my shader and normal map information:

https://preview.redd.it/2ij44b5ee2xc1.jpg?width=1838&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e49cd13980aa91bd368fdb7b9912e5c200c493ad

https://preview.redd.it/8yw6jc5ee2xc1.jpg?width=652&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26544c70e8d928dcbe722a167f372ded3081d6b0

Any help would be appreciated, thank you!!

EDIT:

I also know I should probably bake out some displacement maps, and that might be better than the normals, but I still am curious about how to fix this specific issue, even if it's not the ideal method

https://preview.redd.it/s0vf2lza62xc1.png?width=1389&format=png&auto=webp&s=62a873265e13abc90ca7082f8b47e4c0708017b6

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