Modo Light Baking

jose.fuentes · Sep 2015

I'm trying to bake the lighting effects into an object on Modo 901, but I can't get the Spec or Reflections to Bake

The Process:

I create an Vertex Illumination Map, then create a Weight Map, Finally I bake to render output

But still no Spec or Reflection

Any thoughts on how to achieve this?

Farfarer · Sep 2015

In the shader tree, go to the Render item (the top item) and scroll down to the bottom of it's Frame properties. Tick "Bake Directional Effects".

Usually specular highlights and reflections aren't things you want to bake because it's dependent on the position of the camera.

jose.fuentes · Sep 2015

Farfarer wrote: »

In the shader tree, go to the Render item (the top item) and scroll down to the bottom of it's Frame properties. Tick "Bake Directional Effects".

That worked about 95%

There is some weird banding going on in the texture, I'm not sure how to trouble shoot it. Any ideas?

JedTheKrampus · Sep 2015

More subdivisions?

Farfarer · Sep 2015

Yeah, up the render subdivisions of the mesh.

You're baking it to vertices (I think?) so there's only so far you'll get.

jose.fuentes · Sep 2015

increasing the sub d levels def made the image a lot better, but that weird banding still exits. I ended up painting over it for now, but I'd still like to figure out what is causing it

Thanks all for the help!

Modo Light Baking

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