Baking Complex geometry inside Maya?
polycounter lvl 7
Hello everybody 
After watching some 3d motive tutorials(that briefcase one and the one about trips and tricks for normals maps)it made me wonder if Maya was capable of similar. Of course you can bake normal maps inside Maya and stuff like that, but while i was working on a little project myself I was kinda stuck. I was getting terrible results because all the envelops were overlapping etc. (Xnormal wasn't getting me any better results either.) So what i was wonder is if there is a functionality, like this material Ids in 3ds max to prevent this kinda problem in Maya. Also is there a similar function like that Ray miss check?
Since I am more of a Maya user this would help me alot
So i guess my real question at the end of the day is: How would you go about baking complex models such as guns, vehicles etc (stuff with lots of technical detail, lots of parts, very high poly) inside Maya, so you get a nice clean bake?
Thank you very much in advance
After watching some 3d motive tutorials(that briefcase one and the one about trips and tricks for normals maps)it made me wonder if Maya was capable of similar. Of course you can bake normal maps inside Maya and stuff like that, but while i was working on a little project myself I was kinda stuck. I was getting terrible results because all the envelops were overlapping etc. (Xnormal wasn't getting me any better results either.) So what i was wonder is if there is a functionality, like this material Ids in 3ds max to prevent this kinda problem in Maya. Also is there a similar function like that Ray miss check?
Since I am more of a Maya user this would help me alot
So i guess my real question at the end of the day is: How would you go about baking complex models such as guns, vehicles etc (stuff with lots of technical detail, lots of parts, very high poly) inside Maya, so you get a nice clean bake?
Thank you very much in advance
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I don't really know about anything like ray misses, but at this point I can usually tell if something is up with the normal map.
Thanks for the reply. So would you put the whole exploded mesh as the source mesh. Wouldn't get that problems since i always thought the High Poly and Low Poly need to be at the same position....
(ie key axle_high and axle_low to the same position)
wait so you key frame both the high and the low poly..... I am so confused lol
yes. You move it so it doesnt intersect and cause any projection errors from the other pieces you might have in the scene.
Not maya but the concept is in a gif so you'll probably understand it better
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