another maya Q: texture bake

rooster

we're currently working on a project where we use mental ray to bake the lighting. what would be really handy is the ability to bake from one UV set to a new one- so I could set up the tiled textures as usual, then that gets baked onto a uv set where there are no overlapping uvs. is this possible? I've been rooting around for ages and come up with nada

Eric Chadwick

Not a Maya user, but maybe something here...?
http://www.drone.org/

Jeff Parrott

I've got a tutorial on my site. You need to create a new set of UVs for the lightmap. It sounds like it's something you're looking for not sure though.

http://jeffparrott.com/mentalray_01.html

rooster

cheers jeffro and eric, very helpful! I think I've got it working how I want now