How to bake a 2D texture of polygon by Prman

[playmesumch00ns]

Use the bake3d function, passing the s,t coordinates as the point parameter.

There's nothing to do this for you in rat (yet), but it's fairly trivial to write a simple baking shader or template.

[tyic]

Thx for your reply....

Could you give some hints about writing a bake texture shader ?? :)

I have try before...but only work for NURBS only, I really confuse about the different vertex no. on polygon and its uv...

(my stupid method is using a NURBS plane as a template object to get the Pref, then directly render the plane to get the texture.. :< )

[playmesumch00ns]

What version of prman are you using? The old-skool "texture oven" method is a bit of a pain in the arse, workflow-wise.

version 12.0 and above adds a function, bake3d, that simply writes out your shading points into a point cloud. By passing UV information instead of current-space positions, you can write the points out in texture space, then use the provided ptrender command to write tiff files from the pointclouds.

[tyic]

Thank you again :)

It's so poor that I am using old version of Prman, no "bake3d" available for me :(
is there any alternatives doing this on Prman???

(may be I can tell you what I really want :) ...... I am working on sth about fur rendering....since it seems take a quite a long time for rendering ambient occlusion, so i think may be just render the that for the geometry and bake a 2D texture send back to the fur....(the fur archive rib is generated by shave & a haircut))

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