Baking the DISP and AO maps and saving them individually is clear to me, but when it comes to the painting, I'm having a h...

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Baking the DISP and AO maps and saving them individually is clear to me, but when it comes to the painting, I'm having a hard time understanding. Do I have to paint on the layer called "paint", or can I paint directly on the photoshop completed map? I hope I'm being clear here. It's difficult to explain lol. Thank you!

Answer 1 · 2016-05-16T21:29:08Z

Kent Trammell replied May 16, 2016 9:29pm

"It's difficult to explain"

Welcome to my world :D But no, I understand. You can certainly pait directly on to a baked map, just like you can draw with a pen on top of printed document. Baking is just a way to project a certain set of pixels on to the canvas. Painting is a by-hand method of projecting pixels on to the canvas. I hope that helps..