Need help with rendering workflow!

loggie24

Hi, this is a simpler version of the question i posted earlier which was chaotic...

Is there any way to snap a camera to for example a plane to simulate projection in 3ds Max? I'm asking because i am making vegetation with the use of alpha maps and since RTT doesn't support them i have to render using viewport and camera...

Problem then is that i can't get proper bakes such as normals so i want to use xNormals, which again is the reason i need something that can simulate projection to get exact same position of my mesh in both 3ds and xNormals.

Thanks!

Eric Chadwick

I've done this a lot. Bake foliage cards using alpha mapped leaves. I use a top-down Free Camera, set to Orthographic. Center it on the world, and lay out my leaves/branches in a square below it. Helps to show the Safe Frame to line things up.

For example



Also the wiki has some good info
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Texture_Baking#Transparency