Vray Baking Tutorial?

[u4ia]

Hi

Has anybody doing Architectural type renderings done a flythrough with Texture Baking?

if not.. has anybody got some tips or tricks for doing a basic texture baking animation? I know there's one in the vray help files, but that is a pretty basic model with no textures.

How long does the baking process take?

etc...

[Clifton Santiago]

It takes forever. Not the actual rendering part of the baking, but all the planning and setup involved.

IMO, at least for the types of architectural animations I do, its faster to use lighting.

I would only use light baking for real-time walkthroughs. But now with real-time lighting engines like Oblivion, HL2's Hammer editor or CryEngine2, even that is not necessary.

[u4ia]

Hi Santiago

I had a quick look at the setup process and you're right. I think to use this for the forst time on a project with a deadline is not going to be feasable.