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lisa · 12th December 2007, 03:03 AM

Not presently, no, but it would not be terribly hard to write such a thing.

Here are a couple of other ways you could go about it:

Use MegaPOV with the camera_view command to render each triangle to a texture from the point of view of the camera. (You'll need to do some pov scripting.)

-OR-

Easier method: Use the other plugin I just uploaded (http://www.inivis.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4571) to call the ATI NormalMapper tool. NormalMapper will also output ambient occlusion into the alpha channel of the normal map, which can be saved out and converted to grayscale for self-shadowing. This won't give you full lights like the POV method, but ambient occlusion can still add quite a lot in terms of lighting.

12th December 2007, 03:03 AM	#5
lisa Senior Member Professional user Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 917	Re: PLUGIN: Bake Texture Layout Not presently, no, but it would not be terribly hard to write such a thing. Here are a couple of other ways you could go about it: Use MegaPOV with the camera_view command to render each triangle to a texture from the point of view of the camera. (You'll need to do some pov scripting.) -OR- Easier method: Use the other plugin I just uploaded (http://www.inivis.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4571) to call the ATI NormalMapper tool. NormalMapper will also output ambient occlusion into the alpha channel of the normal map, which can be saved out and converted to grayscale for self-shadowing. This won't give you full lights like the POV method, but ambient occlusion can still add quite a lot in terms of lighting.