Painter - Designer baked position map orientation

JackDCaron

I'm finding that if I bake a position map (all axis) in Designer and pop that into painter, an effect like ground dirt reads the "bottom" as -X to X instead of -Y to Y. I've worked around it by pre-emptively rotating my mesh in Maya before baking in SD, or just setting the axis to Y in the SD mesh baker, but I am curious if I am missing something or anyone else has had the same problem?

Thanks!

oblomov

Not sure, but I think effects based on position in Painter expect monochrome positions and probably only read the first channel (R) when you give them a color (all axis) position map. Until we provide a setting in Painter to be able to specify whether the input is color or grayscale, you'll probably have to rebake your position to contain the height only.

JackDCaron

Thanks oblomov! That's pretty much the solution I came to, baking to Y axis only. Makes sense.