Low and High Poly map export

Low and High Poly map export - normal maps

Render Setup:

Nvidia Mental Ray
Assign Render: Default Scanline Renderer
Under "Default Scanline Renderer" select Max 2.5 Star
Under "Advanced Lighting" we select "Light Tracer"

Apply a "Projection Modifer" on the low poly model

Make the Projection Modifer a little bigger so, that it can properly read Raytracing

Select "Rendering" at top of window and select "Render to Texture"

Export as either BMP or Targa

Using Bitmaps from Exported normals (Exported BMP/Targa)

Comments

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