Maya AO map

noritsune

Hey, do you guys have a favorite workflow or tutorial for generating an AO map from within Maya 7/mental ray that you point me to? I'm trying to learn how.

Thanks!

scott

Daz

Lighting/Shading>Batch bake (mental ray)

Set the color mode to occlusion. It's that easy.

noritsune

lordy! thanks.

Tulkamir

Erm... in fear of looking like an idiot, what's AO mapping?

Super

http://www.williamkladis.com/

Fantastic video tutorial on AO and baking it.

malcolm

Tulkamir, AO = ambient occlusion.

Tulkamir

Ahh! Thanks Malcolm.