Comments on: Tutorial: Global Illumination Texture Baking & Lightmapping in Maya

By: Ben Hearn

Ben Hearn — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:48:40 +0000

Leonard,

Brilliant tutorial! Helped so much with my final year project was just wondering if you are on linked in?

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:20:52 +0000

Hey Leonard thanks for the tutorial.

I have a question, probably not directly related to your tut – wonder if you could help out.

If I have a certain render setup, in my case lets say a standard Skydome lit scene and i want to use that light setup to do a texture bake, what would be my render setup. I tried it using your technique above, however I still only seem to get the standard occlusion information.

Is there a way in maya we can simply bake out any render setup we have… not particularly just GI or just Occlusion?

Thanks in advance

By: glenda

glenda — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:37:46 +0000

Me gusta el 3d

By: Leonard Teo

Leonard Teo — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:36:35 +0000

@chienyih – hmmm you’ve got a really good point and I think I made a mistake in the video as I thought you had to apply the shader to the object to do the AO bake. I usually just apply that shader so that I can visualize the AO before I bake it. But you’re right, you can actually just use the baking panel without applying the shader. Thanks for bringing that up. Now I know.

By: chienyih

chienyih — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:29:04 +0000

hey leornard thanks for the sharing, but there is just 1 question I got when you did the occlusion baking, when you assigned it to the subsurface shader, hm how does the subsurface shader help in the occlusion baking?