Maya 2016 Can you bake shading into a texture

mesmurus

Hello im trying to export some shading effects within Maya into a texture so that i can use it in a game engine. Everytime i try and export it it doesnt create the same effect.

Possible problem could be that it only exports the "Raw" version and not the "sRGB gamma version".

Please help

a3D

Need more info. Post images of your lightened source model (intended result), of bake settings, of the resulting texture, and your model in-game (actual result)

mesmurus

Im wanting this



But its exporting this
http://puu.sh/jAsSx/cec0fa2208.jpg

The difference is the ambient colour if that helps.

throttlekitty

I assume you're baking the diffuse which is only defined by your material? This will only bake the diffuse color directly, with no regards to lighting or light/camera based modifiers like ambient. Since what you see will change any time you rotate the camera.

So, even though you're seeing shading in the viewport, it's not being considered. You probably want to look into ambient occlusion or point light maps.

Aabel

It sounds like you want to use convert to file texture. It's in the edit menu of hypershade.

mesmurus

Iv tried convert file to texture and it only exports the Raw version without the ambient colour

Eric Chadwick

If you bake the lighting independently of the main color, then you can colorize the lighting as a Photoshop layer, and get a very similar look.

One thing that's really useful for this is to use a Gradient Map adjustment layer. This allows you to control the shadowing differently than the rest. You can also make the transition from light to dark have more saturation, to mimic sub-surface scattering.