- Nomenclature based workflow
- Similar xNormal UI workflow
- Automatic Photoshop integration
- Normal, AO and Vertex Color baking
Tested on Maya 2016 and Maya 2017
Link to see the tool in action: https://vimeo.com/233740754
Copy xNormal.pyc, xNormalBatchBakerForMaya.py and xNormalBatchBakerStyle.css files into your Documents/Maya/(Version)/scripts folder. Also, copy logoxNormal.png file to Documents/Maya/(Version)/prefs/icons folder.Execute this code in Maya command panel
import xNormalBatchBakerForMaya
reload(xNormalBatchBakerForMaya)
xNormal.pyc library is a Python wrapper for xNormal: https://github.com/orangeduck/Python-xNormal
To use Photoshop automation features you need to install comtypes Python library: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/comtypes After install it, copy comtypes folder to Documents/Maya/(Version)/scripts folder
Is not necessary to have comtypes intalled to use the tool, if you do not have comptyes library available, you won't be able to use Photoshop featues to auto import baked textures into Photoshop but the rest of the features will be completely available.