Another nooby 3DS max question-

Seaseme

I'm trying to bake a normal map with Render to Texture, I have the projection modifier on the low-poly, and have made the cage fit. I have the High poly set up in the sub-objects list.

Whenever I press Render it ALWAYS renders the diffuse map, even if I don't have that option selected. I have Normalsmap selected, but just can't seem to get it to work. I've tried pretty much every setting in the render to texture window and can't get it to render a normal map. Any thoughts?

Here's a screenshot of the settings used..

http://www.remotecontrolledchaos.com/render_to_texture.jpg

PS sorry for the two posts.. I tried to edit the other one with the new question but I couldn't change the topic title.

Bryan Cavett

Are you checking the actual file output or just the render window? Max will not display the normal map in the render window. It still outputs the map into the directory you specified.

Kovac

Yeah I'll assume it's what Bryan is talking about... check the actual directory the file it's output to. I remember that sucker burning me a few years ago trying to figure the same issue out.

Seaseme

Thanks Bryan and Kovac. That was it - I feel so dumb, again. Getting used to 3DS max is rough coming from XSI/Maya..