Exporting The Uvs In A Baked Object (render To Texture)

[duckspeaker]

I'm more familiar with Maya...but find myself quite impressed with Max right now.

I need to export a Max object through 3DS.
Problem is that the object materials are Multi Sub Object.

3DS isn't exporting all the materials naturally.

So I thought I would Bake the materials on the object, and export the Baked Texture.

Unfortunately, though I seem to be able to export the newly baked texture just fine...I can't seem to export the newly Flattened UVs for the object.

(The baked texture comes out on Channel 3...that mgiht have something to do with it?)

Is there a way to export the UVs used in a baked object?

Thanks!

[robby]

Hi Duckspeaker,

yes it has to do with channel 3. You would have to copy the uvs from channel 3 to uv-channel 1 to export them properly. Even if I am not quite sure if 3DS-Format contains texture coordinates?
But, the way to do this, is to save the uv-coordinates in an Unwrap-UVW-Modifier as .uvw-file on your harddisk. To do this, apply an Unwrap-UVW modifier with channel 3 on your object (it contains the flattened map) and hit the save button to save the coordinates on harddisk.
Then apply an Unwrap-UVW-modifier with channel 1 on the object and load the .uvw-file from harddisk. Thats it!

Cheers

Robert