Bake surface bump map

[Xtaz]

well I'm going deep in this tool and in my tests all bump maps are black .. is there some tip to create it ?

[robcat2075]

you did have some bump maps applied before you baked, right? Or a bump material?

[Xtaz]

In my initials tests I used decals (bump) before to bake surface.

[robcat2075]

I just tried it with a decal and i got visible stuff on the baked bump map. Something else is wrong.

 

[Xtaz]

ouch... my mistake with decals. Confirmed. it works.

 

Another issue is with darksim textures... it didn't produce bump maps.

[robcat2075]

I Haven't tried a Darksim but if you are in a pinch you might temporarily edit a material to make its bump pattern appear as a grayscale color, then bake that and swap the map that results from that with the regular bump map.

[Xtaz]

edit a material to make its bump pattern appear as a grayscale color, then bake that and swap the map that results from that with the regular bump map.

yep ... this was my way to solve it for while.