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AMBIENT OCCLUSION IN MAYA8 and PHOTOSHOPThis tutorial covers the basics of how to setup and bake ambient occlusion maps in Maya8. The process is similar for previous versions of Maya only the menu names will be different. As with most things in Maya there are probably many different ways to do this but this method works well for me and is reasonably quick to setup.
1. SETTING UP THE SHADER NETWORK
- First open the hypershade window and from the Maya nodes list MMB drag a Surface Shader node into the work area
- Now click on the "Create Maya Nodes" button at the top of the nodes list and change it to MentalRay nodes.
- Then under the textures tab MMB drag an 'mib_amb_occlusion' node onto the work area
- Now connect the 'OutValue' of the Occlusion node to the 'OutColor' of the surface shader. This is the default connection between these 2 nodes so you can do this by simply holding down Ctrl and MMB dragging the occlusion node over the shader node.
2. SETTING UP YOUR SCENE
- In order to get good results from Ambient Occlusion the scene environment must be white. To do this open the Outliner window and select the Persp camera. In the attribute editor under the Environment tab slide the Background Color to 100% white
- Now open the Render Globals window and select MentalRay as your renderer and Production as the quality preset. Now change the multi-pixel filter to "Lanczos".
(this will automatically change your Quality preset to 'Custom' like in the picture)
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Opening Adobe Photoshop 7.0
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Photoshop will initially open with a tool panel and a variety of windows, all of which look incredibly intimidating at first. You can ignore the right-most set of windows for now. First, let’s familiarize ourselves with the main menu.
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