Hi

first I found this feature when baking a lightmap with
color/batch bake(mentalRay) and baking the first time
everything was ok but if I brought the texture to maya
and tried to bake again with the same name I had two
different errors when baking tga or 32bit tiff:

// Error: (mental ray) : cannot open texture C:/Work/renderData/mentalray/lightMap/plane_test.tga //
// Error: (mental ray) : .../renderData/mentalray/lightMap/plane_test.tga: unrecognized file format, not an image file //

// Error: (mental ray) : cannot create file C:/Work/renderData/mentalray/lightMap/plane_test.tif //
// Error: (mental ray) : .../renderData/mentalray/lightMap/plane_test.tif: can't create file (The device does

later I found out that the problem is maya2008:s feature
to lock all loaded textures.. so mentalray cant overwrite them or you cant modify them in photoshop

Ive tried to find a solution for this on two other sites but no luck so far.

:headbang: :headbang: