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26-10-2014
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A quick question about texture baking
If I'd paint hair in an external program (i.e. Corel Photo Paint) as a PNG or JPEG, and then apply the hair texture + transparency and bump mapping and reflection mapping to an object (i.e a plane), if I bake the texture to the object, will I still need the external texture file or could I get rid of the file and the hair would still be the same on the object?
Could I then export the object to someone else (just the maya file) while keeping the baked texture of the hair? (the person would not have the same maya project folder though, they'd only get the file).
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26-10-2014
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What if I just want to send the .mb file to someone without passing them my project folder? How can I keep the texture bound to the object while only passing the object to someone else who is working on another station?If you have already created the texture in another app there is little point in baking it as all maya will do is create another file in the project folder, Baking comes into its own when you have create ramps or layer texture nodes or fake lighting for scenes(the list goes on) and want to change them into a single texture file. It is always a good practice to keep textures in the project folder under textures.................dave
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Thank you. So I guess I'll have to archive the projects and keep the textures in texture folders when I pass them to someone.Textures are not kept in in the .mb file but the project folder.............dave
Will it pick up the textures correctly from the folder if placed on another machine though? (positioning of the texture and all) Or will the other person have to re-map/reload it if for example my project folder is located on a drive called C: but the receiver puts the project folder on a drive called A:?
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My horse would not start with the mane / tail hair texture until I've reloaded it, and as soon as I've loaded the texture, everything else just updated (transparency and specular).
Although I am not sure if this counts as if it were transported to another machine, but my hdds' drive letters are switched around anyway...
To be more exact, I have a dual boot system, and the horse was made while I was on on Win XP, but I am editing the horse on W7 and my drive D: (where the horse project is) became drive C: and my drive C: became drive A:.
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Well just re-loading the texture, transparency and specular seems easy enough if I'd pack the textures where they should be.Yes that's correct all node be them shaders or not are kept in the .mb file but if your spec was controlled with a texture file that would still need to be loaded............dave
It was the UV map I was more worried about, because then they'd have to re-arrange them to show the textures correctly and if I'd send it to someone who doesn't know how to work with that, it would be difficult.
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