Texture baking in object with multiple UVs with different projections

moai

Hey guys, I just made an account here for this specific question since I couldn't find a proper answer anywhere, hope you can help.

I have a complex object on maya and I'm projecting a ramp on it using a planar projection from the side so the colors align with its height.

The thing is I need to bake this ramp on another UV which has a different projection (the faces are separated in groups in this second UV) but I need to keep the look of the planar projection. If I project the ramp on this second UV, I lose the height alignment of the colors.

So, yeah, in short, I need to bake the texture from a UV with a kind of projection to a UV with a different projection while keeping the same visual from the first UV.

Any ideas?

Eric Chadwick

Make a copy of the object, remove the ramp, and use that as your "highpoly" bake source?

moai

I don't think so since it's not a matter of different polygon counts. I have two UV sets for the same object and I need an "easy" way to bake from one projection to the other (as if it was possible to bake in one kind of projection and have maya cut the faces and paste on the other UV automatically... I don't know if it's even possible).

fatihG_

Instead of having 1 object with 2 uv sets, make 2 objects with both of em having only one uv set.

Than bake the colors of the one with the ramp to the one with the proper uv's.

Eric Chadwick

Exactly, bb0x explained it way better.