[Bf-funboard] Lightmaps and Render Baking

[Matt Ebb]

Yes, I've run into the same problems. It also means that you can't  
bake anything with a UV texture (eg. doing a full render bake of an  
environment that uses UV textures), while that texture is assigned to  
the faces. It's a real mess.

It would be great if when doing the baking, we had a few more  
options. I can imagine some kind of UI like:

Object 1
[ Menu: UV layers | use active UV layer / unwrap to existing UV  
layer / unwrap to new UV layer ]
  - [ Menu: Unwrap | Archimap / UVtiles / blah / blah ]
[ Menu | use active image / bake to new image ]
  - [ Texture size: ?px ]

Object 2
etc

or something like that...

Matt




On 10/01/2007, at 9:59 PM, Carsten Wartmann wrote:

> Hey,
>
> fantastic possibilities!
>
> However it could be better ;-) But maybe its also my incompetence?
>
> So heres my way to do:
>
> * uvmap (archimap usually)
> * add a new Image
>
> * bake render
>
> * add a second UV layer
> * uvmap (tiled or whatever for walls/ground etc) with image textures
> * make material setup
>
> * Start GE, be happy
>
> So far so good.
>
> But now when I want to recalc the Lighmaps:
>
> * select the Lightmap UV Layer (or not, but it seemed logically to me)
> * bake render
>
> Now I end up with a totally BLACK "Light"map....
>
> As workaround you have to remove the Material then bake and then  
> reassign the material an exchange the texture for the new lightmap.
>
> Hope this makes sense?
>
> I wish the baking could be more clever, mostly (always?) I want to  
> overwrite the old Lightmap  the new generated LM. If I have some  
> maps in a scene saving them all can be tendious.
>
> Best Regards,
> Carsten
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