Converts (renders) illumination, shadow, shading, and textures to a file texture you can use as a texture map.
See Baking illumination and color for more information.
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Note
For to work properly for polygonal objects, the polygons must have (UV) values, and unique (UV) values across the surface. Otherwise,
the result may not be what you expect.
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If on, sharp, jagged edges within the solid texture are blurred or anti-aliased.
When converting a file to a texture, occasionally some of the pixels along texture edges are missed. As a result parts of
the geometry are not properly covered and the background color shows through. In the drop-down list, there are three options for managing this situation.
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A default color is applied to the background. The color may be a blend of the shader colors. This option is intended for compatibility
with previous versions of Maya. This is the default.
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Specify a color to apply to the background using the field. For example, this can be useful if you want to import the file texture into image editing software and want a special
key (color) to select the background for processing.
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Looks at the neighboring pixels’ colors to determine the appropriate background color to extend the texture pattern at the
edges. This option provides the best quality in some situations.
Tip
In the window, set the option to a filtered method for best quality. Set the option to to see the potential artifacts.
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If the selected UV space contains boundaries, these boundaries may appear as black stripes in renderings that use the baked
textures. This occurs when the texture is sampled so close to a boundary that the filter picks up values (generally black)
from outside the desired space.
This setting artificially extends the boundaries by a small amount to alleviate this problem. It is measured in texels (pixels
of texture). Typically, the filter is only a few texels in diameter and can only reach as far as its radius into these boundary
spaces, so a value of 1 or 2 is usually enough.
Note
The algorithm consists of two passes by default. The first pass samples the color of the inside of triangles; the second pass
extends the sampled color slightly in each direction along the polygon border to fill texture seams. Game developers, or other
users who have no room for overscanning, can disable the second pass by turning the attribute off.
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Bakes the lights that illuminate the selected surface into a new image file when you convert a texture or material into an
image file. The new image file is lit by the same lights linked to the surface in the scene. (This option is ideal for color
matching.)
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This option lets you create an image map for layered shaders or other non directly supported shading networks properly without
having the image cropped based on an object’s UVs. This bakes out a sample image using a virtual plane with UVs from 0,0 to
1,1 square.
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Specifies whether to compute shadows when baking lighting. Disk-based shadow maps are used. Only lights with depth map shadows
turned on ( in a light’s ) are used.
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Specifies whether to compute transparency when baking lighting. Bake transparency samples both the color and transparency
of the shading network—Maya sets the alpha channel of the file texture to correspond to the sampled transparency’s result.
Transparency is not computed by default.
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Turn this option off when baking lighting or shadows. If on, normals that are needed when sampling the shading network are
flipped to face the camera. (You can use this option when baking a shading network’s lighting to light both sides of the surface).
Note
Turning on makes the conversion dependent on the camera which may be undesirable in some cases, particularly with baked lighting
and shadows.
Specifies the amount of the surface to sample in UV space. For example, if you select one or more faces on a polygonal object,
instead of sampling the whole surface, only the selected faces are sampled.
Note
can be used in conjunction with selected polygonal faces.
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For NURBS surfaces, Maya samples the entire surface. For polygonal and SubDivision surfaces, Maya samples an area from [0,0]
to [1,1].
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Samples the entire surface (for example, a polygonal cube is sampled from [-1,0] to [2,4]). A place2dTexture node is created
and connected to the file texture.
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Turn on to enable the and options (see next). A place2dTexture node is created and connected to the file texture.
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Slider values specify how much to stretch the sampling range of U or V components. Maya stretches the sample region to fit
the output image size within the [0,0] to [1,1] sampling range.
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The horizontal and vertical resolution of the image file, measured in pixels. The default value is 256.
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Lets you choose a format in which to save the file texture. The default is Maya IFF.
Available Image Formats