maya texture bake?

rooster

I'm trying to bake a texture- the polygons have their uvs laid out one way for the texturing, and I want the same texture to be transferred to another set of uvs and get laid out differently when I bake. I've managed this before without problems via mental ray batch bake, and using uv override to point the bake at a second set of uvs.

The problem is now when I try, it does transfer the texture, but any area outside the original uv set comes up black- which isn't a lot of use. any ideas?

edit: ah jeez never mind. after the bake the texture being placed on the model was showing big black areas, but when I looked at the baked texture dir theyre all fine

Justin Meisse

woah, holy cow I was going to ask if this was possible but didn't know how to word it correctly! Can't wait to give it a shot.