Help: BAKE to Texture loses specular

[kenzor]

I understand that specular refection’s are view dependant. Its not obvious how to bake them into a texture map

The left image shows a render of the baked texture map and the right images show what the render ‘should’ look like

Specular refection’s are lost in the baked textures (vRayCompleteMap)

There are no options ( as far as i can tell ) to specify a camera when rendering to texture​ . So how do I fix this ? I can bake reflections in Arnold but rebuilding the scene will change the look

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[vladimir_krastev]

Hi, thanks for posting. This difference is most probably due to the camera angle. Baking is done trough a different camera to what you are rendering your image and the speculars are different/lost.
You can bake from a specific camera using this script:

renders.current.camera_bakeCamera=

[kevin_young]

thanks! but doing these leads to strange black/ dark artifacts on the edges of the objects. is there any way to fix this? I’ve attached these examples here