Baking problems - Lightingmap

Kollaator · Nov 2014

Hello!
I've stumbled again on a baking problem with 3DSMAx. When I try to bake a light map out of my model, it doesn't seem to detect lighting information, as it can be seen in the pictures I've linked. Although the height map suggests there are height differences...

I tried adjusting my skylight, but no success what so ever.
Why god why?

http://imgur.com/a/4xj15
(The lower one is the light map)

Obscura · Nov 2014

Whats the render engine? How your lighting setup looks? What you choose for output in the RTT?

Kollaator · Nov 2014

Sorry for not giving enough info for troubleshooting.
Here are a few pics of my setup

http://imgur.com/a/Lo3K5

Obscura · Nov 2014

This looks like a simple skylight setup with the scanline renderer to me. You need to enable the light tracer (under rendering->advanced lighting) to get ao from the skylight. When you want to render out ao with this method, you need to choose "complete map" for output in the RTT. Lighting map is used to store the whole lighting, and not just the ao. So if you want to bake a lighting map, then you need to add a few light sources first. Its mainly used for "lightmap" baking.

Kollaator · Nov 2014

Woohoo, problem solved! Now I can actually proceed to finish the texture in PS and play around in Unreal.

Thank you Obscura a thousand times!

Obscura · Nov 2014

Cool. Glad I could help.

Baking problems - Lightingmap

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