Creating a special Baking method

Regretful123

Hi all!
Like the subject title stated, is there a way to create a special kind of baking technique? I found a way to do it procedurally, but it's annoying to do step by step to get the result I wanted.

So I figured, why not code it? Is there's a way I could do that?

Thanks in advance!

This is for 3ds max btw, I could invest looking into Maya, but I haven't figure it out how to do baking in Maya yet.

EarthQuake

Need more information. Baking what, how, why?

passerby

Need info, what kinda data are you bakeing, what 3d package? What is the expected result?

Regretful123

I'm trying to bake Local Thickness of a object.

The way to do it, select Geometry, inverts normal, bake Ambient occlusion, then invert color, and the result.

I also wanted to do a clean up, such as reinvert the normals back to the original.


3ds max 2012.

passerby

Well any the case of Maya I could write you a few lines of python to do that, but I don't know maxscript, eq could prolly help you, its a pretty easy task to automate.

Also BTW xnormal does bake a thickness map natively.