Why do my Maya baked Lightmaps turn out so gash?

[Torch]

Got another q, trying to bake a lightmap in Maya with the Lighting/Shading > batch bake (mental ray) dialog when the mesh has 'softened' edges, but I keep getting these weird jagged bake errors:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/Blinnx/baked.jpg

Any ideas why? :poly122: Thanks!

[Torch]

Any ideas? :-S

[St.Sabath]

can you post up a screencap of the model with the AO texture applied to it?

[r_fletch_r]

post an image of your model aswell.

[bk3d]

a way i get around this is to add a smooth with 2-3 subdivisions.. and bake the AO off the hi res object. You still might have to do a little clean up in photoshop.