diffuse baking all texture layers?

Gungriffon Geona

I'm currently looking to bake normals and my standard diffuse to a single texture, as the engine I'm working with doesn't currently support normals. (not yet anyways) I would use 3DS Max for this, but I don't feel like re-rendering my normals from Xnormal, and it treats Xnormal's tangents really strange. what would be a good way to do this?

cholden

I haven't tried it in a while, but I'm sure you can render to texture the normal map data to the diffuse based on lighting setup in the scene.

Also, you could setup a photoshop action to take the individual channel data (red, green, blue) of the normal, and paste them over the diffuse as a shading layer.

DOG-GY

I had to do just this a while back. What is the issue with the normals? Can you post an example? It may just be a flipped green.

Gungriffon Geona

cholden wrote:

Also, you could setup a photoshop action to take the individual channel data (red, green, blue) of the normal, and paste them over the diffuse as a shading layer.

this would be an ideal solution, actually. are there any known tutorials for doing this?

DOG-GY wrote:

I had to do just this a while back. What is the issue with the normals? Can you post an example? It may just be a flipped green.

it's not the channels, it's mostly that I don't want the normals re-rendered. The normals from Xnormal render strangely in Max, as well. I think it's simply an issue of how they render them between the two.

cholden

I'm sure there are tutors on using photoshop actions, but can't think of one that performs this specific task. Either way, a psd with a normal layer and diffuse layer. Hit Record on Actions, copy & paste all the channels over, maybe set them to overlay (or whatever works best for you). Once it looks nice, stop the record, open the next one and hit play.