How to bake?!

[gabrie]

I want to bake the CAVITY effect to my TEXTURE.how can I do it?
THX

[aminuts]

well i wanted to help but the bake button wasn't where i remembered it being and no mention of it in z2 help files i have perused so far.....not that they arent there....but after 90 hours of work.....i am not seeing too good....ok i checked again andstill couldn't find it........in z2 however i am sure if you check z1.55b docs....it is there with mega explanations on it.

[cameyo]

The shortcut for "bake" was CTRL-B on 1.55b...with Z2 is ... the same.

cameyo

[boozy floozie]

It used to be in the opened out view of the layers section - is it no longer there?

[gabrie]

I`ve try it CTRL+B,but it can`t do it,i want cavity effect be on my texture so t can use it in other 3D soft,thx!

[aminuts]

ok it is in the layers menu. I saw it there in passing today.

there might even be a mention of it in the new pdf Aurick posted yesterday or the day before as well.

[Grub]

Hi Gabrie, there's a way to bake the cavity shader, from geometry that has a few subsivision levels. :)

After modelling a polymesh with multiple SubD levels, switch down to the first SubD level and create a displacement map.

Select the generated alpha and use the 'crop and fill' option from the alpha menu to create a new document from the alpha.
The alphas depth information will be transfered to the new doc.

Apply your cavity material to the canvass.

To isolate the cavity effect you'll need to reduce any diffuse shading. Set the ambient slider of the material to the maximum.

Best render the document with shadows off.

Now grab the render as a texture, then you can apply this to your object.

That's it- the cavity texture will look best on subdivided poly geometry. :tu:

[gabrie]

thank you very much!
It`s a good way to solve my problem!