Reply To: I painted my texture and then wanted to use the Ambient Occulsion Bake option to add the lighting effects but after the bake the whole model was the gray colour. How to I maintain my paint job?

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Kent Trammell
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    I recommend keeping your paint job as its own texture and bake your ambient occlusion as a separate texture. It sounds like you’re trying to bake AO into the paint job texture so they’re combined in one texture.