maya-texture-bake

name	maya-texture-bake
description	Authoring stage — bake lighting, AO, normals, and custom maps from high-resolution sources to texture files. Use when generating static texture maps for game / render assets. Not for material assignment (maya-materials) or UV layout (maya-uv-ops).
license	MIT
allowed-tools	Bash Read
metadata	{"dcc-mcp":{"dcc":"maya","layer":"domain","stage":"authoring","version":"1.1.0","tags":["maya","baking","textures","ao","lighting","normals"],"search-hint":"bake texture map, AO normal, ambient occlusion, high to low res,\nstatic map, transfer maps, bake lighting","tools":"tools.yaml","groups":"groups.yaml"}}

maya-texture-bake (Authoring stage)

Bake lighting / AO / normals / custom shading networks to image textures via Maya's bundled bake workflow. All four scripts are main-thread-affine and CPU-heavy — set realistic timeout_hint_secs in tools.yaml.

Scripts

• bake_lighting — Bake full lighting (diffuse + shadows) to a texture via convertLightmap
• bake_ambient_occlusion — Bake AO using a mib_amb_occlusion shader
• transfer_maps — Transfer normals/displacement/diffuse from high-res to low-res mesh
• list_bake_sets — List existing bake set nodes in the scene