Texture map re-projection maya.

somawheels

Hi, I have very little experience in maya and want to bake some mid poly textured and normal mapped models onto a low poly model, similar to here http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1590084&postcount=320
Can someone tell me how? or direct me to some tutorials that cover this?

Meloncov

You can bake polypaint into a map using xNormal.

somawheels

Poly-paint is only good for very highpoly models.
I want to use the same tequniqye as "choco" at http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1590084&postcount=320

antweiler

Lighting/Shading -> Tranfer Maps is what you are looking for, its Mayas own texture baker.
Read about the output maps in the docs:
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2013/en_us/files/Lightingshading__Transfer_Maps.htm

somawheels

Are there any alternatives? Because it really slow to bake any kind of complex geometry.
slow like 5 hours to bake a disp and col map.

antweiler

Yes, its slower than XNormal and maybe other dedicated bakers, but you can accurately bake Maya shaders. Its relieable...
Hmm, i would check if you can go with lower quality settings.. Or do quality checks with a lower resolution/lower quality, and let it run in High quality over night (like in the "good" old rendering days...)

somawheels

I cant leave my pc on overnight. I need an alternative. It doesn't need to be brilliant quality, any faster alternative will do.

antweiler

You can set the quality of the bakes in the transfer maps settings

somawheels

It still takes ages. It is because i am baking such a complex model.