HOW DO YOU BAKE DIFFUSE MAPS?

manilamerc

I am working on a character and following this tutorial to bake my textures

http://eat3d.com/free_zbrush_xnormal_pipe

I have done this before and did it successfully but every time I bake my textures in X normal It doesn't workout. I totally forgot how I did it. The thing is in the tutorial the guy is using an older ver. of Zbrush. So I had to experiment using Zbrush 4R2 and I did it before. But now I can't seem to do it because I believe I'm missing a step.

If you guys know how to do it successfully using the tutorial above please let me know, if you know an easier way to bake diffuse maps please let me know

cryrid

It's not only old as far as zbrush is concerned, but as far as xnormal goes too; XNormal can now read vertex colors, which I find to be even better as the older method can lead to distortions and larger file sizes.

Instead just export your OBJ with polypaint turned on (no UVs or texture needed), and in xnormal use the "bake highpoly's vertex colors" option (and uncheck 'ignore per-vertex color" on the high res mesh).

http://eat3d.com/forum/questions-and-feedback/polypaint-xnormal#comment-1017849

As far as baking in zbrush in case you still need to know how;
Tool: Texture Map: New From Polypaint
Tool: Texture Map: Clone Txtr
Texture: Export

trugb31

I am assuming that you cannot use Maya to do this?