3ds max 15 render to texture bright issue

snake85027

I am texture baking a model for a ambient occ and I am using mental ray for it. I am getting a very bright result. I have a Standard Material on the model for the bake. Any suggestions?

or if anyone has a image of good settings for the Render to texture parameters that would help too.

ghaztehschmexeh

Well first off, it's helps if you post your result. What do you mean by bright? Secondly, do you get the same result in xnormal?

Joost

http://www.laurenscorijn.com/articles/ambient-occlusion-baking
Also your actual AO Map is different from what's being displayed in the render window.
Maybe try turning off gamma and lut.

snake85027

I am just trying to render lets say a box(cant show because what I am doing is for work) I am using mental ray to render to texture a ambient bake. I usually just use the standard material and place a skylight in the scene..unwrap my model and hit ambient occlusion in the render to texture dialogue and hit bake.

I cant really see any shadows on the side of the object...do I need to place the object in a room and then bake it?

snake85027

I went in and create a mental ambient occlusion material and applied it to the model and playing with the spread and max distance, Im atleast getting a variant in shadows.

snake85027

I should also add that I am just getting a ambient from the object itself. I am not doing any high to low baking.

snake85027

so I got the ambient baking for mental ray working out better this is my settings...

any suggestion would be great

Joost

Don't use completemap. Try "Ambient Occlusion (MR)"