2015
Digital Tutors
Eddie Russell
01:20:00
English

When preparing assets to go into a game engine, many different types of texture maps are typically required.

This Maya tutorial will break down 3 major types of maps used in game pipelines and teach you efficient and effective ways to bake each right inside of Maya. We’ll begin by learning how to prepare geometry for the baking process by blowing it up or exploding it.

From here we’ll focus on the ID map and learn how to configure materials for it and then bake it out. Next we’ll move on to the normal map. Not only will we learn how to bake out our normal map, but we’ll also learn about some common problems with baked normal maps and how to fix them.

Lastly, we’ll learn how to bake the ambient occlusion map out for our game asset. After finishing this Maya training, you'll know how to get these three major type of maps ready for your game assets, without ever leaving Maya.

Introduction and project overview 1 Introduction and project overview 01:16
Exploding Meshes for better bakes 2 Exploding Meshes for better bakes 06:14
Setting up materials for an ID mask 3 Setting up materials for an ID mask 08:15
Baking out ID maps 4 Baking out ID maps 09:48
Baking out normal maps 5 Baking out normal maps 14:39
Fixing gaps in a normal map 6 Fixing gaps in a normal map 12:54
Fixing waviness in normal and ambient occlusion maps 7 Fixing waviness in normal and ambient occlusion maps 14:10
Baking ambient occlusion maps 8 Baking ambient occlusion maps 09:26

http://www.digitaltutors.com/tutorial/1930-Map-Baking-Techniques-for-Games-in-Maya

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