Best practices for baking different maps?

OlaHaldor

I've got a license for Quixel Suite, but have yet to use it for anything except the demo models.
I don't have a problem making models, but the issue comes down to making the different maps it asks for.

I'm using LightWave 3D and have a hard time understanding how I can generate the maps.
Anyone using LightWave who can shed some light on this?

Or better yet - is there a tool that can generate what I need?


What's your workflow to create the maps?

peanut™

I derive all my maps from a base color map in photoshop, using lightwave or anything else doesn't really matter.

Do you have Ddo with Quixel ? if yes you can derive a normal map and a specular from it and see.

Here's what most people would go for with Quixel:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hncqbwkGbM4"]Complete dDo Legacy Breakdown - The Chainsaw - YouTube[/ame]

throttlekitty

I don't know what baking options Lightwave has, but most of us are using xNormal. The supplied documentation is very thorough, the process itself is fairly simple.

OlaHaldor

I'm asking for help to make maps such as curvature, object normal tangent and such in order to make better use of Dynamask and smart materials in order to create and adjust the textures of hard surface objects such as trains.

Throttlekitty, xNormal looks interesting for some of the maps I need. I'll check it out.