Blocking to prevent from baking ?

CreativeSheep

What is the method used to block parts of a mesh as to not bake them into the texture ?

ilari

What are you trying to do? The classic baking of an "exploded" mesh? Floaters casting unwanted ambient occlusion? With what software?

There's "match by mesh name" in Substance:
https://support.allegorithmic.com/documentation/spdoc/matching-by-name-127074308.html

Alex_J

additionally to exploded mesh and substances methods, if you are using toolbag you just separate into different bake groups.

You could also pull the UV island you don't want involved outside the 0-1 space and reinsert it afterward. This may not accomplish exactly what you are asking but it's pretty vague what you are asking.

musashidan

Traditional method - physical explode baking

3ds Max - bake by material IDs

Modo - explode bake with morph map

Blender - multiple object bake to automatic map composite

Substance/Toolbag - match by mesh name