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1. Re: Baking lighting-Normal mapped object (maya 6)

   

   Reply by scanning_factor · Apr 2005 · Home› Technical Talk

   mental ray bakes normal maps. hook your normal map up to a shading node then use Lighting/Shading > Batch Bake (mental ray).

2. Re: Baking lighting-Normal mapped object (maya 6)

   

   Reply by Whargoul · May 2005 · Home› Technical Talk

   Try looking for the shading network versions of normal mapping, you should be able to bake those out. The main problem is that the normal maps are in tangent space, you need need the shader to convert that to either world space or camera space at render time (for Maya or mental ray). There's also a node someone wrote that…

3. Re: Baking lighting-Normal mapped object (maya 6)

   

   Reply by Whargoul · May 2005 · Home› Technical Talk

   Yeah, I checked it out this morning, and you have to use the Mental Ray one and back with MR, I couldn't get the Maya one to work (it bakes out each channel separately - ie the bump gets a baked bump map, the colour it's own, etc - instead of combining them). But MR does it perfectly

4. Re: Baking lighting-Normal mapped object (maya 6)

   

   Reply by CheeseOnToast · Apr 2005 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks for all the tips. Scanning_factor...can you be more specific about the settings I need to use mental ray for baking? I got something out of it, but it has very harsh, angular shadows and has none of the lights' colours. On the side in shadow it seems to be using vertex normals, causing a very hard edged look.…