New to baking, could use some tips.

Razorcane

I am finally getting to baking in my learning process, only I've run into a weird problem. Whenever I bake an image, the properly-baked image appears on the model, but the actual rendered texture map does not have the baked detail. I've played around with it for the past hour, and haven't been able to get around this issue. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm using MentalRay for rendering it, and I'm using an Ambient Occlusion map for the texture. Any more information needed can be provided.

EDIT: Here is an image to describe my problem a bit better:


NOTE: The red baking misses are intentional, I'm not going to be using the data baked on those pieces.

Bunglo

The render window isn't going to show you the actual map you baked out. Open it in photoshop to view it properly.

Razorcane

Bunglo wrote: »

The render window isn't going to show you the actual map you baked out. Open it in photoshop to view it properly.

When I open it in Photoshop, it has the same texture as the texture map, not the image baked onto the mesh.

Bunglo

Mind posting the actual texture?

Razorcane

Sure, here you go.

Razorcane

Anyone else that could explain the problem to me?

EarthQuake

What you're looking as is the *render preview* not the render output. The render output is defined in the RTT options, you pick where the files are saved and the resolution etc. Open THOSE files, not the render preview.

Mark Dygert

Do yourself a favor, press 0 to open the RTT options, at the top uncheck "Rendered Frame Window". Then down in Output set a path for each map type you added "diffuse, normal, AO ect..." Then go check those files once your done rendering.

If you're still having trouble post those separate maps. What you're posting now is a full preview as if you where rendering the entire scene (all lights and maps combined) to your UV layout.


Edit, yea what other people said...

Ghostscape

As a side note, you're also missing a lot of raycasts there - is the high and low identical there? If they're completely co-planar you can get that kind of noise pattern.