Interesting, but I can't help thinking that Allegorithmic Substance does all that compositing + more. Any reason you decided to go for an in-house solution?
Has anyone used that online service that uses machine learning to generate textures? that sounds interesting. What about the new project alchemy by Allegorithmic?
Any questions you have about the contest should be posted here. The Allegorithmic folks will be watching here and providing the answers. The most common questions will be added to this post along with the replies.
first: here's a video of me unwrapping a box on 6 seconds. the remaining 6 seconds is trying to remove all the stupid crap the max programmers put in to drain my soul and spirit. http://www.dejawolf.com/12secUV.avi this is fine, albeit marginally annoying useless and a pain in the ass "feature" of max8+ i used to have…
You don't need to explode your meshes when baking with Allegorithmic products. https://support.allegorithmic.com/documentation/display/SPDOC/Matching+by+name
For an automatic solution with some nice artist-friendly tweaks exposed as slides, you might want to check out Bitmap2Material, an Allegorithmic application.