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Maya: baking Final gather???

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Im new (ish) to Maya 2012/13 and I cant get Final gather to bake to geo?!

It bakes, the lights, textures.. but not AO or Final gather maps? what am I doing wrong?

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  • Joopson
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    Is the Mental Ray plugin enabled?
    Settings/Preferences>Plug-in Manager>MayaToMR

    Make sure it's loaded and set to auto-load.

    That's the only thing I could imagine being the issue, since I bake AO all the time, and it prevents me if MR isn't loaded.
    I've never baked Final Gather though, but it should be the same issue.
  • fade1
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    fade1 polycounter lvl 18
    as joopson said, check that the mental ray plugin is loaded.then there is a (modeling)color->batch bake option. the occlusion is what you're probably looking for.
    if you want to bake a final gather setup, you have to assign a suitable shader and bake color. then adjust you're render settings/scene as needed. it's bit complicated, but there are a lots of tutorials around..
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