Hi, im having some issues. im not sure if things are baking correctly, after i bake and tried to do the cushion texture i cant mask anything. When i look at the mesh ids everything is black
Chunck will probably know, but one thing that everyone always advices, and works like a charm, is to start over from scratch. You'll most likely see where you made a mistake and the process will feel much simpler the second time around and it will solidify the knowledge in your mind.
Like remodel the whole relic ? or just restart the instamat stuff?
Hmmm, alright well it looks like a texture is slotted in that channel, however it looks like it and a couple other texture maps did not bake properly. For some of the other maps like the Ambient Occlusion, does it appear to have baked correctly? (You can check what it looks like on your model by pressing the "C" key and cycling through the baked textures).
The first thing I'll recommend if you haven't tried it already: Create a new InstaMAT project and try baking again. This could be an easy solution that may fix things without us having to get too deep into troubleshooting.
If you give that a go and things still are not working:
Like Omar had mentioned, it may be beneficial to retrace some of your steps leading up to this point in the series. Texture Baking is often a mistake that happened several steps prior, so it could very well be an issue that exists outside of InstaMAT. Give some of those ideas a try and I'll be happy to continue troubleshooting with you if that doesn't work! :)