Look up workflows for special effects in movies, they have to match live footage and cg all the time. Nuke compositing software for example, it's used to match plates.
Offline renderer do work different. You wont need all those maps. If you use an AO for example you just get much to dark areas. Your render will look less real. If you are aiming for a stylised look i would mix in AO with a layered texture node. Take a look at Arvids tutorials. https://youtu.be/aN4sqlfbTBA
Hello, so i ve read the guide for uv unwrapping and baking. it says where u have hard edges in your mesh, you need a uv border. but how do you unwrap a mesh for baking that has no hard edges at all ? an oversimplified example of a mesh without hard edges: kind regards