maya fur bake to texture?

somawheels

I need to create a tiling moss texture with norm/bump maps; maya fur seemed perfect but i cant seem to bake it to a texture plane, only render it, which is no use as i cant get a normal render in the render window.
is there a way to bake fur to texture maps?

DireWolf

Mental Ray has Material Normal and Object Normal render passes. You may want to give those a try.