Coloring in by face in 3ds max or Maya

VisceralD

So I’m curious if this is possible but essentially what I want to do. Is let’s say for a model that I have in 3ds max or Maya that is UV unwrapped I would like to. Select certain faces then fill those selected faces with a color. Then that color will appear as a diffuse on the unwrapped object. Is this possible?

Bartalon

Maya answer: You can assign a different colored material to the faces as needed, then use Transfer Maps to bake out an unlit diffuse map.

Rendering workspace > Lighting/Shading > Transfer Maps

Noors

And in Max, you assign a multimaterial to your object.
Fill the multi with materials with different diffuse color.
Assign the coresponding material ID on the faces of your object.
Bake the diffuse to a texture using the "render to texture"
You could use vertex color aswell, but imo, it's less flexible.

VisceralD

As a followup, I need these colors to be exact, Are there any setting I have to change to insure shadows are not an input when baking?

passerby

You can bake diffuse only in mayas transfer maps

Mark Dygert

Same in max, use Render To Texture and render only the diffuse, it will ignore lighting and shading.

Also, ignore what is in the render preview window that pops up, it will show a full render with lighting, just ignore it. Go check the file that it output, it will have the diffuse colors correctly rendered without the shading.