The proper etiquette for baking a diffuse map

[soulburn3d]

Just want to confirm this. So say I have a scene with an object, and I want to bake out its diffuse map. If I use the baking render element:

be1 = vraydiffusefiltermap()

I get the proper result unless I have turned "Color Mapping" on in the renderer and have modified its values (like for example, setting type to Reinhard and burn to 0.5).

If instead I use

be1 = vraycompletemap()

I get the same result whether I have color mapping set or not.

I really want to be using the second element, vraycompletemap, correct? Because I really don't want my color mapping burned into my final diffuse map, or else if I bake and then place that bitmap back in the scene it will get doubly color mapped, correct?

- Neil

[vlado]

Every bake element has an option "Color mapping" that you can turn on and off. I think you should be using the vraydiffusefiltermap() one.

Best regards,
Vlado

[soulburn3d]

Thanks Vlado, I'll keep using vraydiffusefiltermap then but turn colormapping off.

- Neil