AO baking gone wild

diop

Hello!

Im trying to make an AO map for my low-poly model, but i just can not get it right. When i make a normal light trace render, everything seems right, but after rendering to texture, i get a mass. Im using the same parameters for the two render,
please see the attached pictures:






Just started modelling and rendering not so long ago, i have read a lot of articles about rendering to texture, but i just can not found solution ... bad uv maps or geometry? Have tried to reset xform, collapse to editable mesh etc, but just can not find out.

Thank You!

MoP

Are your UVs mirrored and stacked at all? Or are they totally unique?

If they're stacked or overlapping you'll need to move the "mirrored" UVs outside the 0-1 range (since that's all that gets baked).
Just make sure to move them by exactly one UV unit so that their relative position in texture space is the same.

That's my guess anyway.

Vitor

I doubt the problem is on the skylight sittings. Are you doing the render to texture well?

Sandro

I think you should show uvs and baked AO map instead of skylight settings.

diop

Hmm, i have reset XForm, throwed a Mesh select modifier to the stack and fliped/unified the normals ... and now its ok.
This thing took my whole saturday

Anyway, thank you all for the replies!