This week’s Monday Movie shows you how to bake an ambient occlusion map for an object in 3dsMax. It’s actually a much easier process than you’d think. Here, I’ll show you how to use the Render-to-Texture tool with mental ray’s Ambient Occlusion pass. The resultant image can be used to either visualize your object in the viewport, or as part of your texturing process!
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By lucy_maria April 17, 2009 - 9:56 am
Just what I needed, only problem is I don’t have the Ambient Occlusion (MR) option in my Add Elements section of render to texture. I’m using an educational version of 3DS Max 7, can you help at all, is there a plug-in I’m missing or something I can do to have this option available?
Thanks.
By Adriana September 26, 2012 - 11:01 pm
I have the same problem. How do you solve this?
By kakkoii April 17, 2009 - 2:46 pm
Be sure to change your Assigned Renderer to Mental Ray and it should appear. If you not you can try rendering a Lighting Map with skylight in the scene.
By lucy_maria April 19, 2009 - 7:06 am
I was in Mental Ray but using the Lighting Map got me what I wanted, thanks. Another question though, is it possible to get the lighting map to take into account a normal map?
By Bluesummers April 20, 2009 - 11:50 am
Lucy Maria: That’s a good question. It sounds like a job for the Complete Map, but I’m not sure. That might be next week’s Monday Movie…
By PoopaScoop May 26, 2009 - 3:57 pm
Does the lighting effect the results?
And did you set-up lights?
By Bluesummers May 28, 2009 - 8:48 pm
In the scanline renderer, I believe that the lighting will affect the result. In mental ray, you’re taking an explicit ambient occlusion render which ignores the lighting setup.
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By McFly February 15, 2010 - 3:38 pm
Nice tutorial and well explained. Thanks for posting.
By ambien October 9, 2011 - 4:58 am
ambien…
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