Hi all,
hopefully someone can help.
I am exporting a maya model, that is animated to smoke to be comped.
The model i am going to export will have various textures, these will be applied in smoke.
I am currently using the 'mental ray baking options' to bake in specular but this does it for one frame only
Is there a way to bake it dynamically per frame basis or would it be a case of scripting this?
Any help would be amazing!
Running jr
Mostly a script and what dynamics does is the same thing
/*jooCCRequestedBatchBakeAllFramesInRange.mel 0.1
Author: Janne 'Joojaa' Ojala
Testing: Briefly tested
License: Creative Commons, Attribute.
Request by: Dil Bhakar
About:
Simple script script for batch baking multiple frames. Frame
numbers are prefixed to the bake name.
Install Instructions:
place this text in a file named:
jooCCRequestedBatchBakeAllFramesInRange.mel
that resides in your personal Maya script directory.
Usage:
Assign all your baking need into bake sets then run:
jooCCRequestedBatchBakeAllFramesInRange 1 12;
from a command line. where 1 is the frame to start from
and 12 where to end.
Known issues:
Script can not be interrupted.
Changelist:
21.08.2012 - created
*****************************************************************/
proc jooCCRequestedBatchBakeAllFramesInRange(int $startFrame, int $endFrame){
string $prefix[];
string $bakesets[] = `ls -et textureBakeSet`;
for($b = 0; $b < size($bakesets);$b++)
$prefix[$b] = (string)`getAttr ($bakesets[$b]+".prefix")`;
for ($i = $startFrame; $i <= $endFrame; $i++){
currentTime $i;
for($b = 0; $b < size($bakesets);$b++)
setAttr -type "string" ($bakesets[$b]+".prefix") ("frm_"+$i+"_"+$prefix[$b]);
print `convertLightmapSetup -camera persp -ulb -keepOrgSG -showcpv -bakeAll`;
}
for($b = 0; $b < size($bakesets);$b++)
setAttr -type "string" ($bakesets[$b]+".prefix") $prefix[$b];
}