Baking normals outside of 0 to 1 UV space

snowmanjc

I was wondering if there was a way to bake normals outside of the traditional 0 to 1 UV space. In maya I know you can take a UV snap shot out side of the 0 to 1 UV space but I cant seem to find a way to bake a normal outside of it

Zepic

I don't think that's possible.
Anything out of the 0 to 1 space will tile/overlap. Unless I'm mistaken...

snowmanjc

I know it overlaps and that's what I'm going for, but to keep my UV space neat I put some UV's out of the 0 to 1 space and want to bake to them. Guess I am just sol and will have to put them in 0 to 1 space.

oglu

mudbox is able to do that...
and there should be a script for maya floating around...
its moving the uv in space 1-2 to 0-1 during baking...

Farfarer

xNormal also has UV offset values so you can shift the UV coordinates around by specified amounts.

But you won't be able to bake outside of the 0-1 box without shifting the UVs one way or another.

3DKnight

why would you do this though? just add a second UV channel

passerby

Woundering what the point of this is? Just keep everything you want to bake on the 0 to 1, and use the other space for mirrored and overlapping parts.

jetskee96

I would also like to know why you would need to do this? I just found out about ao maps with uvs out side via vertex paint. Maybe that is what you are looking for. I am still trying to figure out how to do it though.