Bake AO to Vertex Color Maya LT 2018?

SpaceRabbit

I'm an old school Maya user, and back in the Mental Ray days it was pretty easy to bake AO to your vertex colors. Does such a feature exist in LT 2018? All I can find is information about baking to texture maps, which is not what I want to do. If not, does a seperate app like Marmoset, 3D coat or something else support this?

Thanks, 
--BT

Alex_J

Only way I know how to do this is to convert a texture map to polypaint (vertex paint) in zbrush. Just a single click of a button. Prerequisite is a vertex count relative to the texture map resolution, of course.

Not saying it isn't possible in other apps, that's just one way I know of.

poopipe

Unless they've disabled it in LT... 

Load the baked AO as an attribute map in the paint vertex color tool

Eric Peterson

Don't LT have the full Turtle baking feature set? Turtle can bake out any attribute to either vertex of texture.