Is it possible to bake the result of a projected texture from a spotlight?
For example, in this demo, the spotlight projects a texture onto the model.
Can we “bake” this so the texture becomes a more permanent part of the model without the spotlight (remove the spotlight after baking)?
I think this may be a solution for this challenge
I’m using that for the <lume-texture-projector> element in Lume. But it’s basically the same thing right? I think what we need to do to “bake it” is dynamically create a UV map, then we can have two maps, color and UV, without the spotlight or the projector.
Maybe the question is, how would we generate the UV map? Hmmm.
Can you put that in a live sample, perhaps on codepen?
Added the link to codepen, in my previous post.
TBH, I don’t know how correct this approach is 
The pen describes what was imagined when you posted…
This is a great approach for certain limited camera views but essentially you’d end up with repeated negative z camera space uv’s on opposite faces of meshes that the camera is looking at…
@trusktr you’d ideally want to reuse the uv’s that already exist on a geometry and somewhat “ray trace” on to that uv space, this way you could blend the baked light over a diffuse texture in shader, look into how maya and substance handle this, otherwise you’re looking at lightMaps on a secondary UV space similar to blenders typical approach to baking lighting…
@prisoner849 nice! Here’s the demo with a little animation to show it is “baked”:
(posting the URL on its own line makes it embed the demo here)
Got a link?
Here’s ^^^ an overview of how the technical process works in maya, however this has no insight into the proprietary mechanics around how this is done…
Afaik, I think it’s known as PRT or “precomputed radiance transfer” there’s an old (abandoned?) repo I found that looks like it touches on this… GitHub - kevenv/prt: Precomputed Radiance Transfert (PRT)
