Overview of the Transfer Map dialog and baking

The idea of baking shows up in several places in the game pipeline.…Here in Maya, baking comes in when we need occlusion, normal, and maybe other…maps, baked out is part of the texture.…In a game engine we're going to bake things like the lighting into an additional…image that overlaid on the mesh.…I'll release my material override by right-clicking on the master layer and…choosing Overrides > Remove Material Override.…I'm back to my unwrap model and we can see in here that I've got all of my UVs…stacked in and the doors in the separate space.…

I'm going to show my high-res garage door here by choosing Show > Show…Geometry > Polygon Surfaces.…I've set up some high-res meshes to bake normals and occlusion, planning that…I've got a high-res door, a high-res door and window, window assembly, and…window over here as well on the side.…As you can see, what I've also done in this is to split some of the larger…polygons and stack their UVs.…I've reduced down some of the geometry.…So instead of a full-length high- res window, it's a half window.…