How can I bake image based lighting to a map in Maya?
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Hi all, I have some pretty image based lighting using a standard HDR sphere in Maya set up, and it looks great in a Mental Ray render. This was created just by plugging an HDR texture into Render Setup/Scene/ then adding the texture to the Image Based Lighting slot. I then turned on Emit Light.
I'd now like to bake that lighting data into a texture. I've been trying to do that from the Rendering menus, then in lighting shading/batch bake (mental ray), then with the settings on colour mode light and colour (I've also tried it on every other option) and bake to texture turned on. When I click Convert, it bakes a black square.
If I drop a light into the scene it will bake the light out okay, but will still ignore the image based lighting.
I'm obviously missing something but I'm not sure what!
Thanks!
I'd now like to bake that lighting data into a texture. I've been trying to do that from the Rendering menus, then in lighting shading/batch bake (mental ray), then with the settings on colour mode light and colour (I've also tried it on every other option) and bake to texture turned on. When I click Convert, it bakes a black square.
If I drop a light into the scene it will bake the light out okay, but will still ignore the image based lighting.
I'm obviously missing something but I'm not sure what!
Thanks!
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