Is it possible to bake Inward Facing AO maps in Xnormal, or maya?

spider2544 · Mar 2012

Does anyone know how to make an AO map on a water tight object with Inward facing Normals?

http://colinbarrebrisebois.com/category/subsurface-scattering/

The only way I have seen is using 3dsmax, but I'm wonder if there's a way to do it in Xnormal, or maya.

Ive tried a lot of different settings and tried looking for ways to do it, but Ive come up against a wall where nothing seems to work.

poopipe · Mar 2012

ive not tried but surely using a cage in xnormal would work

AlecMoody · Mar 2012

as long as the lowpoly normals face inward xnormal should allow you to do it.

almighty_gir · Mar 2012

why not just make them outward facing, then select the lowpoly faces and invert the normals after the bake?

poopipe · Mar 2012

AlecMoody wrote: »

as long as the lowpoly normals face inward xnormal should allow you to do it.

You won't get the right results on recessed areas if you do that

Butthair · Mar 2012

If your talking about a Volume map, then I think an object having inwards faces is correct, then just invert and levels adjust the bake result.

Maybe this might answer some questions.
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=94210

gilesruscoe · Mar 2012

Could you not simply go into the ambient map options and disable backface ray culling?

Is it possible to bake Inward Facing AO maps in Xnormal, or maya?

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