Guide: Baking for Maya inside Marmoset Toolbag 3

Neox

#tldr I wrote a guide, you have to read it

So i have been writing this (not so) little guide for internal use only. 

But as there are only few written guides nowadays. 

And tons of videos which are kickass but hard to find the exact info you want.... 

I thought it might be good to make it public. I will update it together with the asset I worked on here once it goes public

https://gumroad.com/l/Fwew

#maya #marmoset #baking #gameart

oglu

thanks Steffen...

leopenaranda

Awesome thanks!

kolayamit

Nice, thank you!

dropyhop

Awesome!

< ASH >

Many thanks for sharing this !

Neox

you're welcome

janoshx

This may be a really silly question but why bake outside maya for maya? What is the benefit? I would be really happy for not too deep answer but still something to grasp on?
is this for creating lightweight animation assets for faster renderings in maya? Is the baker in marmoset way better and faster than the one in maya?

pho

janoshx said:

This may be a really silly question but why bake outside maya for maya? What is the benefit? I would be really happy for not too deep answer but still something to grasp on?
is this for creating lightweight animation assets for faster renderings in maya? Is the baker in marmoset way better and faster than the one in maya?

Yeah, it's just faster and easy than in Maya. You don't need to explode meshes to prevent intersecting - just name objects correctly. And you don't need to use a cage or bake two ways (surface/geometry) one after another - you can tweak artifacts and skewing just by using the brush instrument.

hansolocambo

artifacts and skewing using the brush or better : Bake in Substance Painter 2 bakes for each object (with bake by mesh name it goes ultra fast). One with and one without "average normals". This way you'll end up with a bake that has clean edges and one that has clean sculpted details. Then you play with some masks to hide/show the best part of each normals and end up with the perfect one.
P.S : but Substance does a truly amazing job without having to do that most of the time. It just sucks at baking polypaint "by mesh name". I always have issues, still don't really know why.