Maya | Bake texture from one UV channel to other.

osman

Hey guys, as the title said, I'm looking for a way to bake stuff from UV Channel 1 to UV Channel 2 in Maya. I tried searching, but couldn't find anything.

In MAX I remember it was done using RTT dialogue, but now I'm using Maya and kinda need something with the same functionality.
Thanks.

Bal

You can do this in Maya with "Transfer Maps" (in lighting), not sure you can directly transfer from one UVset to another though, I'd just duplicate the mesh and have one with your first UV set, and the other with your second, than transfer.

I use xNormal for this kind of stuff though, it's pretty quick to setup, and you can even transfer normal maps while preserving the tangent space (not sure if that's possible in Maya, haven't tried).

greuh

edit UV -> wrap image
if that's what you are looking for.

http://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/2011help/index.html?url=./files/Edit_UVs__Warp_Image.htm,topicNumber=d0e273539

Bal

Nice greuh, had never noticed that tool, doesn't seem to work for normal maps though, too bad.

pasha_sevez

As far as I know Maya can rebake only the isotropic maps (direction independent, e.g. diffuse, specular etc.) but not normal map.

osman

The wrap image thing worked, thanks guys, i knew i could count on polycount.