3ds max- Baking without exploding

iangoold3d

Hey all!

I remember seeing a tut on baking out normal maps without exploding your mesh long ago, it had something to do with assigning different materials to different parts of the mesh... I have been searching the internet and cant find anything.

I was wondering if you guys had any techniques or tutorials for baking out High to low normals without exploding the mesh.

Thanks in advance!

kman108

It has to do with material ID's. assign matching material ID's to both the high and low poly models and then go into the projection options window found in your render to texture dialogue box and check off "Hit Only Matching Material ID". The part of your highpoly that is assigned a material ID of 2 will only bake to the part of your lowpoly that is also assigned a mat ID of 2.

tynew

Yes that would of been Xoulil's Dozer tutorial on Eat3D. I wonder which technique is faster.

TrampledUnderFoot

I highly recommend this amazing bit of scripting: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=117018