maya 8.5 baking?

rooster

hi we just got maya 8.5 (woot, massive step up from 6 hah) I was wondering if it has the same kind of projection baking you get in max- so for example if I have several high poly objects floating on a plane, can I render a straight diffuse of how those objects are lit etc onto that plane.

I have no idea what itd be called?

MoP

Surface Sampler, I believe! Or something like Surface Transfer... one of those should be what you want anyway.

Marine

called transfer maps now, it has a bunch of output options, but i've only used it for normal maps

rooster

ace cheers!