MPxBakeEngine Class Reference

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Detailed Description

Baking functionality.

The MPxBakeEngine class is a way for users to override the viewport representation of shaders. Users can provide their own baking engine to bake advanced shading properties into a texture. This texture is used by the viewport to represent the shading properties.

#include <MPxBakeEngine.h>

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Public Member Functions
	MPxBakeEngine ()
	Constructor.
virtual	~MPxBakeEngine ()
	The class destructor.
void	setNeedTransparency (bool t)
	Set whether the bake engine needs to produce an image with transparency.
void	getUVRange (MFloatArray minUV, MFloatArray maxUV)
	Tells Maya the UV range the baked texture should cover.
virtual MStatus	bake (const MDagPath &objectPath, const MDagPath &cameraPath, const MPlug &samplePlug, MImage &bakeResult)=0
	Bake the texture Maya will use to approximate shading properties.
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Member Function Documentation

void setNeedTransparency

(

bool

t

)

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Set whether the bake engine needs to produce an image with transparency.

Parameters:

[in]

t

whether transparency is needed

void getUVRange	(	MFloatArray	minUV,
		MFloatArray	maxUV
	)

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Tells Maya the UV range the baked texture should cover.

Parameters:

[out]	minUV	the minimum UV value
[out]	maxUV	the maximum UV value

MStatus bake	(	const MDagPath &	objectPath,
		const MDagPath &	cameraPath,
		const MPlug &	samplePlug,
		MImage &	result
	)		[pure virtual]

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Bake the texture Maya will use to approximate shading properties.

Parameters:

[in]	objectPath	the object the texture will be applied to
[in]	cameraPath	the camera that should be used for baking
[in]	samplePlug	the plug being sampled, ie baked
[out]	result	the texture

Returns:

MS::kSuccess if a valid texture was created, MS::kFailure otherwise