Maya - How to bake a normalmap with alpha

Neox

Hey guys, as the thread title says i am searching for a way to render out a normalmap with alpha as 32bit TGA.
Usually with Max or Xnormal i would just get my bakes, without padding and let a tool select the alpha compose all my bakes and apply padding in Photoshop, but Mayas Maps are coming out with black alpha.

How do people baking in Maya mask their stuff?

throttlekitty

You can use a full white material, and do edit>convert to file texture in the Hypergraph for a speedy bake with no padding.

Or use Transfer Maps, bake diffuse for a bake with padding. (again with the white material)

Tzur_H

I'm using 2015, I'd assume it works with previous versions as well.



*** I wrote that the file format need to be the same, but it doesn't. In the Alpha map bake properties you just need to make sure you're using a format that supports an alpha channel: TIF, DDS, EXR.. (sorry was too lazy to edit the image )

Neox

thanks a lot i will test this!