For the third lesson of Maya we got introduced to the software Sculptris, which is thankfully a free software plus incredibly useful for making models. We began with a sphere and used the tools provided to sculpt it into a moon, which was incredibly fun to do, and after a lot of playing around I managed to make a moon like model.























Once we finished our moons we exported them from Sculptris and imported them into Maya, the file that Sculptris exports in works perfectly with Maya so it was pretty simple to do. Then we created a sphere in Maya and resized it so it was the same as the Sculptris version, then we placed it inside the moon model to be able to create a Transfer Map for the model.


From there we held the spacebar on the sphere, and clicked on Lighting/Shading and then Transfer Maps. Within the Transfer Maps window there is a variety of options, the source mesh needed to be set to the more complex model of the moon, and the output mesh needed to be set to the basic sphere. For the output map we chose Normal and then baked it as a targa file.