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1. Baking Spec Maps Via Max

   

   Topic by seforin · Sep 2008 · Home› Technical Talk

   Ok this is something that I read a long time ago but never really had proper luck with and I wanted to see some good approaches / ideas on this. before I never really realised how powerful max was with baxing out maps pre existing so I never really bothered I just did the maps I HAD to bake and couldnt create (normal maps…

2. Re: Baking Spec Maps Via Max

   

   Reply by Brice Vandemoortele · Sep 2008 · Home› Technical Talk

   to modulate your specular map, pretty much as you would modulate your diffuse with ao.

3. Re: Baking Spec Maps Via Max

   

   Reply by Mark Dygert · Sep 2008 · Home› Technical Talk

   I'd have to agree that baking spec is pretty useless, unless you're baking a procedural mask, or varied color to a UV jumble. Its easier to just paint spec from scratch or by manipulating the diffuse.

4. Re: Baking Spec Maps Via Max

   

   Reply by Brice Vandemoortele · Sep 2008 · Home› Technical Talk

   Just to make sure everybody is a little more confused: you can bake reflection occlusion. it's pretty similar to ambient occlusion, but instead of weighting the occlusion samples based on the normal (and a cosine distribution) it uses the reflection vector. In clear, this maps represents the probability of having the…