Forum: Carrara


Subject: my first export attempt was not pretty

estherau opened this issue on Nov 30, 2005 ยท 16 posts


anastasis20 posted Thu, 01 December 2005 at 11:25 AM

(The above texture maps have been scaled down from 1024x1024 just as preview). I think the problem you might have had before is that Carrara only exports whats in the colour channel of a texture (if I'm wrong please let me know). If that is the case than you need to export a separate version with the bump map in the colour channel (greyscale/black & white) and apply that image to Poser's bump and/or displacement map channels: - Drag the Bump map channel into the colour channel. - Check that the preview shows the bump map pattern in black & white. - Export this one as something different so you don't overwrite the colour map. I'm starting to get into normal maps now - they're like bump maps on steroids. Obviously you can't use normal maps in Poser, but I hope this stuff is useful to you anyway. One more thing: I'm not 100% certain on this, but Baker doesn't seem to recognize a Terrain shaders bump mapping - the 2nd image was actually generated using Baker's light map function. Doesn't really matter to me, I think Baker is a useful plug in anyway.