Maya 7, Bonus Tools, Generate Light Maps

[agl]

When using Bonus Tools > Rendering > Generate Light Maps, I get the following error if I try to render an image larger than 1024 x 1024:

//Warning: The -uvBoxIntersect flag is obsolete //

Rendering at a size of 1024 x 1024 or smaller works great. The problem is I want to render at 2048 x 2048 to get a higher quality. Does anyone else have this problem? Have you found a way around this limitation?

[joojaa]

Why do you use bonus tools for this? I mean the functionality is in dafault maya and it has all the options plus more.

[agl]

What would you recommend? I tried other methods in the past (Mental Ray, Convert Texture to File), literally years ago. I never got consistent good results. Bonus Tools provides reliable, quality lightmaps, but the size limitation stinks.

[joojaa]

You do understand that the light map conversion in the bonus tools actually is based on those functions!

[agl]

Yes. Mind boggling.

[agl]

I have gone back and tried working around using the Bonus tools. Using the "Convert File to Texture (Maya Software)" does provide many more options, But it still has the drawback of resolution limitations. If I set the options to:

• fill texture seams
• bake shading group lighting
• bake shadows
• UV range: default

X & Y resolution to any size < or = 1024, it renders great.

convertSolidTx -antiAlias 1 -bm 2 -fts 1 -sp 0 -sh 1 -alpha 0 -doubleSided 0 -componentRange 0 -resolutionX 1024 -resolutionY 1024 -fileFormat "jpg" -bc 128 128 128 lambert54SG polySurface1;
// Light_Rig:directionalLight_MAINShape: Reading shadow depth map file G:/courses/SpanishBay/depthmap_Light_Rig_directionalLight_MAINShape.SM.iff
// Light_Rig:directionalLight_MAINShape: Reading shadow depth map file G:/courses/SpanishBay/depthmap_Light_Rig_directionalLight_MAINShape.MIDMAP.SM.iff
// Result: file1 //

If I bump the resolution up to 2048 x 2048 it begins the process, but simply drops off before producing the texture:

convertSolidTx -antiAlias 1 -bm 2 -fts 0 -sp 0 -sh 1 -alpha 0 -doubleSided 0 -componentRange 0 -resolutionX 2048 -resolutionY 2048 -fileFormat "jpg" -bc 128 128 128 lambert54SG polySurface1;
// Light_Rig:directionalLight_MAINShape: Reading shadow depth map file G:/courses/SpanishBay/depthmap_Light_Rig_directionalLight_MAINShape.SM.iff
// Light_Rig:directionalLight_MAINShape: Reading shadow depth map file G:/courses/SpanishBay/depthmap_Light_Rig_directionalLight_MAINShape.MIDMAP.SM.iff

No result, no texture produced.

Advice anyone? Thanks again for pointing me in this direction Joojaa.