I remember a while back someone suggesting to place the texture on a flat plane primitive (scaled way up btw) and applying the shaders then rendering.  I'd imagine if ya messed around to have the lighting directly in front fully illuminating the plane and rendering with no shadows (at a big size I'd imagine) it would be pretty much the same as baked textures when reapplyed to the model....  might try messing around with this on the weekend.....

Gerard

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