bake is not as good as ordinary render

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Sounds a bit basic but am I expecting too much.

I have a gold object which renders beautifully in the ordinary render, great refelections, lighting raytracedetc. I need to put it into a 3D viewer so wish to bake the texture.

When I bake the texture it does not look anything like the quality of the ordinary image. Am i doing soemthing wrong or is there a way to get that superb render quality into my baking?

Hope someone can help

Thanks
Tank :confused:

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Render baking does not and can not include spec shading, reflections, refractions, or anything that depends on the viewing angle. Thatā€™s by definition - an texture must be static, whereas those effects change depending on the angle that youā€™re looking at the surface.

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Thanks for that. It was kind of what I wanted to know so as to stop me trying to reach the impossible.

Guess Iā€™ll have to do some pseudo realist orthographic elevation renders and paste them into the baked jpg ā€¦bit long winded thoughā€¦of course, unless anyone knows a better way??

Thanks again, much appreciated.

Tank

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ā€œBakingā€ is a short-cut!