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# 1 17-03-2014 , 12:29 AM

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Help Shadow map

1.Hello, what do I do for both sides will have the same texture / color?
2.Does anyone know any tutorial or could post the steps of how to make a shadow map bake with metal ray in maya 2013? please

so that both sides are the same shadow* and with no illumination and other dark
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# 2 17-03-2014 , 03:46 AM

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Go to this menu and bake out of that. It will save out the texture in the settings you specify. Most important thing being the occlusion setting and using overrides. The baking tab is the batch bake(Mental Ray).

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# 3 17-03-2014 , 02:20 PM

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thanks, was so, but the details of the clothes have disappeared

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you know, what do I do to bake become more or less like this picture I found on the web?

https://metaverse.mitsi.com/secondlif...ankTop_Opt.jpg

or like the bake what's in this picture

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# 4 17-03-2014 , 04:25 PM

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You use exactly what I showed you. You have to clamp the color values at the bottom and then you can also use the overwrite and multiply settings to control the intensity. I go over it in this video around a guarter in.

Cryengine - Tiled Texture AO Baking (Maya) on Vimeo

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# 5 17-03-2014 , 06:43 PM

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I do not have the'' menu'' that appears in the image, the'' menu'' I have are:
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# 6 17-03-2014 , 09:37 PM

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You need to change the tab in the top left to polygon. Then you will see that menu on the top. You must be very inexperienced with this program. So go and watch an interface tutorial on Maya and how to navigate the different sections.

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# 7 17-03-2014 , 10:21 PM

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I'm really inexperienced with the program,
in the polygon tab also does not have the'' tab'' (do not know the name for sure)
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I've watched enough tutorials, but my AO always comes out with a dark part, I wanted to learn to make a bake done this:
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https://prntscr.com/2sqt38
https://metaverse.mitsi.com/secondlif...ankTop_Opt.jpg
I use these settings have followed several tutorials, I set always before giving the bake the render settings, but my bake always leaves with a dark side
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# 8 17-03-2014 , 11:16 PM

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Do you have any other meshes in this scene.............dave

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# 9 17-03-2014 , 11:47 PM

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yes, I followed a tutorial I found on the web and one of his steps is to create a ''studio'' before the bake
Maya Tutorial Ambient Occlusion (Clay render, Greyscale render) - YouTube

but I just want to bake the shirt

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# 10 18-03-2014 , 03:57 AM

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You dont need a studio around the bake in how I told you. The reason it is black is because the mesh is obstructing the raycast. Delete the studio. Please just follow my instructions. It works in my video if you just follow what I say.

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# 11 18-03-2014 , 08:57 PM

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Just follow the first part of the tutorial that CollinBishop posted, Crytek looks like a shader plugin that you do not need, I did learn one thing on the tut about the overwrite options so you can teach a old dog new tricks..............dave

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