Export Texture as PNG

# 1 27-03-2014 , 09:49 PM

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I am trying to bring a model into an AR program called Aurasma. It requires the texture be a png. I have sculpted a polygon model and then I lit it and baked the lighting into the texture, but when I export it as an .obj the texture exports as an .mtl. How can I either export my texture as a png or convert an .mtl to a png?

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# 2 28-03-2014 , 06:28 AM

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The mtl file is not a texture file it's simply a discription file to tell what texture the obj has. You can open it in a text editor this will show you what I mean sounds like your not exporting the baked texture

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# 3 28-03-2014 , 02:34 PM

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Thanks for your response

So how do I export my baked texture as a png. Sorry if I seem lazy by asking what is probably a simple question, but I've been trying to solve this for five days now and my head is inside out from rereading the manual so many times. So far all I have found is how to export the texture map in order to paint the texture in another program which isn't what I need, since I can't paint the shadows accurately in photoshop.

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# 4 28-03-2014 , 03:35 PM

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Well the real issue here is that Maya is not a sculpting application. When you baked your texture did it show up in the hypershade under the texture tab? If so you can right-click and say you want to see it in the explorer.

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# 5 28-03-2014 , 06:22 PM

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You need to import the texture as a separate item as they are save in different place to your object file, look in
Transfer maps
C:/Users/Dave1/Documents/maya/projects/default/textures/sampledDiffuseColor.png
Or Batch bake (mental ray)
C:\Users\Dave1\Documents\maya\projects\default\ren derData\mentalray\lightMap\Baked.png

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# 6 28-03-2014 , 06:48 PM

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Thank you and thankyou

I can't believe I have spent so much time trying to figure out how to export something that was exported to my files automatically days ago.

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# 7 29-03-2014 , 02:02 AM

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