Projection and multiple meshes

Sliterin

Hi! I need your help about baking maps in 3dsmax , specifally I want to bake it from many objects,which each of them have diffrent cage and projection modifier. I want to do that using only one pass without editing in photoshop. This thing is important for me, because whole objects have many elements and baking in with one cage will create many plugs, and doing adjustments the hand will kill my desire to working. I look forward to quick help!

Eric Chadwick

One method.... Use a single low-poly mesh. Add an Edit Poly modifier and use that to explode the elements outwards to match the high-poly models. Go to RTT and add the high poly models in the Projection window. When done baking, turn off the Edit Poly modifier to revert the model.

Some ideas here
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=62921

Sliterin

Eric Chadwick wrote: »

One method.... Use a single low-poly mesh. Add an Edit Poly modifier and use that to explode the elements outwards to match the high-poly models. Go to RTT and add the high poly models in the Projection window. When done baking, turn off the Edit Poly modifier to revert the model.

Some ideas here
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=62921

Thx for answer, but I'm not asking for that. I use id materials so I don't need to explode I want only to have one pass in RTT with many objects and many projections one for object.

Eric Chadwick

Material IDs are generally bad for use in games, because they render more slowly (more draw calls) than a single material.

IIRC, RTT lets you bake multiple source objects at once, but they each make their own separate maps.

EarthQuake

Your lowpoly can only be one object in max if you're baking to one map.

Sliterin

Eric Chadwick wrote: »

Material IDs are generally bad for use in games, because they render more slowly (more draw calls) than a single material.

IIRC, RTT lets you bake multiple source objects at once, but they each make their own separate maps.

Material Id only for baking [ hit only matching id ],

EarthQuake wrote: »

Your lowpoly can only be one object in max if you're baking to one map.

Ok thx for answer so I need to pack it in photoshop. Thread can be closed.