Can I bake local thickness maps with 3DS Max?
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I'd like to start by saying I'm a programmer and not an artist, so my knowledge of 3D software is quite limited, plus most of it pertains to Blender and not 3DS Max.
Ok, so I came across an article by EA/DICE on Approximating Translucency for a Fast, Cheap and Convincing Subsurface Scattering Look.
Somewhere in the powerpoint presentation for this, they explain the steps required to obtain what I would call a "translucency map" which is essentially an AO map but baked with the normals inverted.
The exact steps are:
Thanks!
(In case you're wondering, I don't have any pretty models of my own to work with so I'll probably end up using the Stanford dragon model, or happy budha or something from this page)
Ok, so I came across an article by EA/DICE on Approximating Translucency for a Fast, Cheap and Convincing Subsurface Scattering Look.
Somewhere in the powerpoint presentation for this, they explain the steps required to obtain what I would call a "translucency map" which is essentially an AO map but baked with the normals inverted.
The exact steps are:
- Invert the surface normals
- Render ambient occlusion
- Invert the colors and store in texture
Thanks!
(In case you're wondering, I don't have any pretty models of my own to work with so I'll probably end up using the Stanford dragon model, or happy budha or something from this page)
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