# Bake camera projection to 2d not working?

**URL:** <https://forums.chaos.com/t/bake-camera-projection-to-2d-not-working/104069>\
**Category:** Issues\
**Created:** [March 25, 2021, 2:12am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/bake-camera-projection-to-2d-not-working/104069 "2021-03-25T02:12:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![michae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@michae](https://forums.chaos.com/u/michae)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 2:12am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/bake-camera-projection-to-2d-not-working/104069/1 "2021-03-25T02:12:22Z")

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Hello,

I am trying to bake a camera projection to a 2d texture with vrays bake options. Is this possible? The texture is not showing up when I vray bake. The vry bake shows the texture being baked when its a normal 2d texture but when its a projection it shows black.

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**Author:** ![hermit.crab](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/hermit.crab/32/46825_2.png) [@hermit.crab](https://forums.chaos.com/u/hermit.crab)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 8:09am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/bake-camera-projection-to-2d-not-working/104069/2 "2021-03-25T08:09:28Z")

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You’re using a projection node, set to perspective, to load the image, correct? Seems to work fine on my end (see [attached scene](http://ftp.chaosgroup.com/support/projection_bake_example.ma)). Is this the workflow you’re after?

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**Author:** ![michae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@michae](https://forums.chaos.com/u/michae)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/bake-camera-projection-to-2d-not-working/104069/3 "2021-03-25T17:38:56Z")

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Thanks for the reply, I did have that set. Odd thing is I opened that file and the baking didnt work either. I am currently using maya 2019.3.1 and vray 4.30. not sure if there is something else on my end that is causing the issue.

 ![Screen Shot 2021-03-25 at 10.36.23 am.jpg](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/original/3X/3/a/3a3e55a5e3ed04e782a5a6db92c99b1df00b9024.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![hermit.crab](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/hermit.crab/32/46825_2.png) [@hermit.crab](https://forums.chaos.com/u/hermit.crab)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 7:47am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/bake-camera-projection-to-2d-not-working/104069/4 "2021-03-26T07:47:51Z")

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Hmm, you are correct. There does seem to be something the matter when baking through the V-Ray menu. Baking through Maya (set baking engine to Texture baking and click Render) does work though, so use it as a workaround. I’ll investigate the issue further.

EDIT: Logged the issue (internal bug-tracker id: VMAYA-10268 ) for developer analysis.