Hey guys,

I’m trying to bake my ambient occlusion as a texture map file, exactly like “Batch Bake (mental ray)” does, except excluding itself, just like “Id Nonself” does on a “mib_amb_occlusion” node.

However the command associated with “Batch Bake” seems to be using a “textureBakeSet” node which does not have any “self excluding” option.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Kim.

Got it, using “Light and Color” as “Color Mode” in the “Mental Ray Baking Options”, instead of “Occlusion” which uses some other temporary ambient occlusion shader.

I had a “Error: Invalid Color Mode” at one point but restarting Maya seems to a have fixed that. Also my ambient occlusion shader is highlighted red as if hinting that it is not working, but that didn’t matter—I am guessing this is just a warning for MentalRay nodes used in MayaSoftware render layers.

Since I’m feeling kind of foolish, here is a relevant code snipet, used to automatically generate an ambient occlusion texture file using a bake preset and a mib occlusion preset: