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In 3ds max when i bake out an ambient occlusion map im able to change the background to white. like the attached image

is there anyway to do this in maya?
everytime i bake out an ao in maya i get a black background.



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  • Alphavader
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    Alphavader polycounter lvl 11
    The camera you render with, has an environment setting - chance the color to white and
    it shall work
  • passerby
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    passerby polycounter lvl 12
    Alphavader wrote: »
    The camera you render with, has an environment setting - chance the color to white and
    it shall work

    would that work, he's using transfer maps, not doing a scene render so he prolly dosnt even need/ have a camera in scene.


    all bakes form maya include a alpha channel, so you could use that to quickly select the background and fill it with whilte
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