How to bake texture with Arnold renderer ?

[sebastien.le_gallYM449]

Hi community,

i am using the last version of 3dsmax and i'm learning to use Arnold. I dont find here any thread about the render to texture : it is not supported with Arnold.

Someone have an alternative solution to bake texture using Arnold ?

I want to bake curvature and occlusion map from Arnold, to produce a bitmap diffuse map from procedural texture.

Thanks for help (and sorry for any error in english, i'm french),

Sébastien

[HazardousAdsk]

Hi,

Currently this is not possible in MAXtoA - it is in the backlog and has a high priority.  I will keep you posted

Neil

[sebastien.le_gallYM449]

Thank you for your answer, i'll keep an eye out

[Smallpoly]

I'm looking forward to baking being added as well. Right now the only other stock option seems to be Scanline now that Mental Ray is out.

BTW, looks like someone put a line in Arnold's docs about it a little early: https://support.solidangle.com/display/A5AF3DSUG/Arnold

[Stephen.Blair]

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@veleno wrote:

BTW, looks like someone put a line in Arnold's docs about it a little early: https://support.solidangle.com/display/A5AF3DSUG/Arnold

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Not really. That's about Arnold itself, not MAXtoA. The Arnold API allows you to write a baking tool, and that line just says that you can do it, if you want. 

MtoA has a custom Maya command that uses the Arnold API to do baking. Before that, there was the Kettle Bake shader for Softimage.

[Smallpoly]

Sure, but it's in a subtopic under the Max user guide. I don't think there's much of a need for us to spin our wheels on this though.

I hope to see you guys get baking integrated into MAXtoA soon.

[tapio.hellman]

There is no way to render to textures using either Arnold or ART renderer! Is this the end of RTT?

[Smallpoly]

I got a response from them a few weeks ago on another forum that "It's on [their] roadmap."

[Smallpoly · Accepted solution]

As of August 10th 2018 Arnold has Render to Texture support via version 2.1.945:

https://support.solidangle.com/display/A5AF3DSUG/2.1.945

To update, grab the new version from their download page:

https://www.solidangle.com/arnold/download/#3dsmax

[BCMorris]

What about the "Projection Mapping"  feature? It doesn't seem to be solved. I can't get correct results when trying to project the AO from  high detail reference geometry onto the target geometry.