mentalray works fine for most baking, you can just crank up specific filters which have sharpening effects and it gives you a decent result. I think more than anything, this is a mentalray-rtt problem. I built a quick test in 1 minute and was able to get sampled results with scanline, but for my workflow I'd prefer if I…
For the life of me, I can't get the same kind of results out of Max 2011 that I'm getting with older versions of Max. I've even dug up some older files which were prepped for projection and I got some bunged up results with that too. First I found out that the ignoring MatID is broken with mentalray (great). Now I'm…