Baking Issue -- Not working with imported object

[likeshesaid]

Hello!

Two questions.

First:
Why isn't the baking camera picking up this heart object? It works with the sphere. The camera just comes up completely black.


Second:
When using the sphere, how do I get the Octane Camera to align perfectly with the UV as it is when you look at it in UV edit? I really hope I don't have to manually align (with the guess-and-check method) every time...


Here's my scene file so you can take a look: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7tmnr4eypigz8 ... s.c4d?dl=0

I'm running Octane 4.04 and R20 (but this should be backwards compatible for testing)

Thanks so much!
Nicole

[bepeg4d]

Hi Nicole,
if you switch the Kernel to Info Channel/Geometric Normals, you can see that the heart normals are inverted, so you are currently baking the inside, having a black result:

You need to firstly reverse the normals:

Please, only use Octane materials, hide the sphere, set the Film Aspect at 1:1 to have a square result, assign a different Baking ID to each object tag, and change the Baking ID in the Camera node accordingly:

love_heart-low_res_b.c4d.zip

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ciao Beppe

[aoktar]

Strangely that reversing the normals solved that! Didn't expect this behavior.

[likeshesaid]

Thank you Beppe! Amazing.