Bake AO of multi-texture object ?

ng.aniki

Hi !

I am looking for a way to bake ambiant occlusion maps of mesh with more than 1 textures (For PS2 -> only 128*128*16)...
Xnormal, faogen and some other softs seems not doing it...

I tryed with mental ray and Turtle (I use Maya), but I never could get those AO maps.



Do you know a soft/plugin which can do that, or a tutorial that could help me ? I didn't found anything...





A friend said me to bake separately every texture, with copies of my main mesh with different uvs.. But it's really too long to do (8 textures for one mesh right now, I have many other meshes to do).

Any idea ?


Thanks !

(Sorry for my english, I do my best)

rooster

maya should be able to output a different file per material applied to the model, theres a check box in the baking options iirc

Rick Stirling

Couldn't you split the mesh by materials into it's separate parts? i'm sure I wrote a script a few years ago that did just that.

Whargoul

When using Mental Ray light baking, just make sure "Bake to one map" is off and it should make one map per material assigned to the model.