Baking Radiosity Normal Map

StormyBA

AKA - Directional Lightmaps

Anyone have any information or techniques on baking radiosity normal maps in external software. A fair few good game engines now have this tech build in and use their own editors and baking systems to get the outputs. 

I was hoping Modo would have an bake output but not much luck on it and it seems hard to find much other information on the tech. Very frustrating!

Eric Chadwick

We have some older info here fwiw
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Radiosity_normal_map

SenSayNyu

I think you can bake such maps in modo with a little help of tangent basis vertex maps. I would ask @Farfarer here or on modo community game subforum.

StormyBA

Eric Chadwick said:

We have some older info here fwiw
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Radiosity_normal_map

Cheers Eric,

Had a browse through this before posting, a bit of good info there about the process valve use and a few other engines but it seems there is precious letting information on how this could be done in modo wile we do our other light baking. 

We might be able to make a mini-representative lightrig rig in unity and get it rendered out from there. Will check it out with the tech guys on monday!