maya mental ray ambient occlusion bake weirdness
polycounter lvl 7
Hi all. First time poster, long time lurker here.
I'm encountering some weirdness while using batch bake(mental ray) to bake ambient occlusion for a ground terrain object in a level in Maya. If I bake my 1k map within my working scene file, i get a massively blurry result with no fine detail. However if I copy/paste the necessary geometry into a new scene in a separate instance of maya and use identical mental ray and batch bake (mental ray) settings, i get the result i expect. Question is why?! I thought maybe it has something to do with scene scale, so i tried hiding and even temporarily deleting a large sky dome and clouds in the original scene file but get the same blurry result. I'm able to get the map I need, but the extra copying and pasting step is really annoying step that slows down iteration. Any ideas?
I'm encountering some weirdness while using batch bake(mental ray) to bake ambient occlusion for a ground terrain object in a level in Maya. If I bake my 1k map within my working scene file, i get a massively blurry result with no fine detail. However if I copy/paste the necessary geometry into a new scene in a separate instance of maya and use identical mental ray and batch bake (mental ray) settings, i get the result i expect. Question is why?! I thought maybe it has something to do with scene scale, so i tried hiding and even temporarily deleting a large sky dome and clouds in the original scene file but get the same blurry result. I'm able to get the map I need, but the extra copying and pasting step is really annoying step that slows down iteration. Any ideas?