Ambient Occlusion map will not work in ZBrush?

Ricky · Feb 2012

Hey, I'm using ZBrush 4R2, and cannot for the life of me get it to export a proper Ambient Occlusion map.

I'm using the Multi-Map exporter, and telling it to only export Ambient Occlusion. However it doesn't seem to matter what settings i use, i always get this type of result:

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s133/rickyt_album/DemoHead_1-AO_u0_v0.jpg

Cavity Maps also do the same thing for me too. Can someone please tell me what is wrong here?

Thanks,
- Ricky

Ace-Angel · Feb 2012

It's broken, doesn't work. It should have been fixed in 4.2B, but I didn't update mine so no idea. Revert to 4 or wait for future updates.

cryrid · Feb 2012

It worked on mine, I just used the demohead tool plus UV master. Are you taking any additional steps to create it?

Ace-Angel · Feb 2012

Almost forgot, the current workaround for 4.2 is to mask via Cabity or AO, and then "Fill" in as color and bake out as color.

Doesn't give look 100% the correct way, but it should work.

Ambient Occlusion map will not work in ZBrush?

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