[Blender] PBR Texture Bakery Addon - Bake Cycles Materials to PBR Textures

Dr_Welz

Hello guys ... just want to show you this addon i just created. Maybe someone might find it usefull.
regards

The PBR Texture Bakery is an addon for Blender that allows you to bake complex Cycles-materials to PBR-textures:

https://blendermarket.com/products/pbr-texture-bakery-for-cycles

The approach is similar to what Substance Painter does: You are able to use a powerful material-node system to create complex materials and finally bake them down to textures. The baked textures will (almost) produce the same results like your complex Blender-materials do if you use them in a PBR metallic-workflow (e.g. in game-engines) because the bakery is based on the Principled BSDF (PBR shader). It also comes around with some useful tools like texture channel packing (e.g. UE4, Unity, Sketchfab ...), texture-transfer from one UVMap to another etc. This closes the gab in Blender when it comes to PBR-texture baking.


https://skfb.ly/6yvqJ
https://skfb.ly/6xvU7

What can it do specifically?

Bakes Cycles-materials for a PBR metallness-workflow:

• Albedo
• Normal
• Roughness
• Metallic
• Specular
• Emission
• Ambient Occlusion
• Sub Surface Scattering Color
• Sub Surface Scattering Mask
• Refractionmask
• Alphamask

It is possible to export textures to specific platform targets:

• Default with OpenGL Normals
• Default with DirectX Normals (inverted green channel)
• UE4 (MRO channel packing)
• Unity (Metallic/Softness packing)
• Sketchfab

• Bakes textures in different resolutions 32 x 32 - 8192 x 8192
• Ships with an easy to use and powerfull Shader-Node which combines Principled BSDF, Emission, Glass and Transparency
• Bakes objects with multiple materials from indiviual UVMaps to one texture-atlas
• Possible to transfer textures from one UVMap to another UVMap
• Possible to exclude certain faces from baking
• Bakes also flipped and overlapping UVs like a charm!
• Possible to export every baked texture at the same time
• Non destructive workflow

Some more examples and Sketchfab links:

https://skfb.ly/6wQ79


https://skfb.ly/6oRXo

Regards 

RawData

Can you make a tutorial for atlas creation? How is the workflow if i have already all of my props textured in substance painter? I mean what is the steps for combining them?

woolfy13

I have a question. Im new to blender so it can be stupid question^^..So, for example i have a mid-to- high character (subd, bevels)  character textured in blender using your special materials and following the rules for your plugin. Then i create the lowpoly version of this character for the gameengine. Do i will be able to bake all the pbrdata to this new lowpoly mesh with one uv? What im looking for to have 2 characters in the end, one high quality highpoly character for rendering in blender and one that i can use in the game engine. Thx