You shade by your implicit projection, you create an explicit projection, and when you bake you choose the explicit, unwrapped UV space to bake to instead of the implicit one (which is "only" driving the rendering qualities you want to bake to a texture).
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Christopher < [email protected]> wrote: > GATOR doesn't seem to be working as I originally thought :( > > > Christopher wrote: > > Never mind, I know how to do this :) > > Christopher wrote: > > you can't rendermap an implicit projection, but you can bake the result of > an implicit projection into an explicit projection. > > I first thought I was reading a tongue twister. Sorry how do I go about > this ? > > ::Christopher > > Amaan Akram wrote: > > you can't rendermap an implicit projection, but you can bake the result of > an implicit projection into an explicit projection. > > > On 4 May 2013 22:54, Sven Constable <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Manual says: "Implicit textures do not have explicit UV coordinates that >> you >> can edit in the texture editor. Instead, the projection is defined by a >> mathematical formula." >> >> Rendermapping need UVs. Therefore you can't rendermap implicit >> projections. >> You can move UVs in the TE and see it in the viewport but when rendered, >> mental ray projects the texture regardless of the manual UV tweaking. >> Basically it's a mental ray extra-feature. It can't be rendermapped >> because >> no UVs are used. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher >> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 23:10 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Baking Implicit Projections >> >> Hi, everyone. I can't create rendermap from a implicit projection. >> Each rendermap that is baked is completely black, I have adjusted many >> properties, in hopes one of the images baked would work. I've searched >> for >> a solution and the only thing I find is how to use rendermap in Softimage. >> Thank you for your help. >> >> ::Christopher >> >> > > > -- > 3D Artist/TD @ The Mill, London > http://www.amaanakram.com > > -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
