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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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  • December 22, 2017 at 3:19 pm #6784
    trlewi
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      December 23, 2017 at 11:27 am #25950
      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.

        December 25, 2017 at 9:54 am #25951
        trlewi
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          Yeah I was trying to combine them in one texture, is that something that I am not able to do. Also, if I do them as two separate textures, how do I combine them after?

          December 25, 2017 at 9:54 am #25952
          trlewi
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            Yeah I was trying to combine them in one texture, is that something that I am not able to do. Also, if I do them as two separate textures, how do I combine them after?

            December 26, 2017 at 1:50 pm #25953
            Kent Trammell
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              I’m not aware of a straight forward way to bake the two maps together. There’s several ways to combine separate textures with photo-editors like Photoshop, GIMP, and Krita. You could also do it with Blender’s compositing nodes, but that’s arguably the harder way to go about it.

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