Baking Ambient Occlusion maps with mental ray

zzz7net

I'm trying to bake AO maps with mental ray but uv shells after test (final gather production quality) render have different brightness. Is that normal ?

zzz7net

I'm using tutorial of Paul Tosca http://www.paultosca.com/makingofvarga.html

Olli.

what tool are you using?

Sandro

Why are you using final gather in the first place? Mental ray has superb shader for calculating AO out of the box.

zzz7net

2Olli: I'm using Maya 2012 mental ray
2Sandro: Could you explain in detail about final gather in the first place. And what is the name of super shader for AO ? I'm using an article of Paul Tosca for creating AO maps with mental ray.

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Now I've solved my issue and everything fine:


Polycount Wiki is awsome ! Thanks a lot guys for the way you do it

Sandro

Well, I don't use maya and can't give you step-by-step instructions, but I think this article pretty much covers it in detail.

http://www.game-artist.net/forums/spotlight-articles/1317-tutorial-ambient-occlusion-maya-alchemist101.html

zzz7net

! wow... useful url. Thanks