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1. Baking lighting info w/ a normal map in Maya?

   

   Topic by ebagg · Apr 2007 · Home› Technical Talk

   I'm wondering if anyone knows how to bake information from a low poly character, with the normal mapping texture info in a lit scene, into a texture file? I'm toying with Surface Sampler, toying with the "Diffuse Map" and "Lit and Shaded Color Map" output settings and so far I'm getting black image files.

2. Re: Baking lighting info w/ a normal map in Maya?

   

   Reply by Daz · Apr 2007 · Home› Technical Talk

   Have you access to 8.0 ebagg? So you want the normal info baked into a diffuse texture right? I just got maya to spit this out using transfer maps (choose 'shaded' for the output map). Note that you need to make it a .tiff. Other formats dont seem to work. I haven't got access to older versions of maya so I can't try it…