Hand-painted gradient bases?

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So, I've noticed that some people tend to use a hand-painted gradient base across the entire model, as well as some ambient occlusion and edge-detection. Is that some sort of baking tool or plugin for Maya or 3DS Max that people use as base before actually painting the texture? Is there anything like that for Blender?

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Mark Dygert mod

Jul 2019
The polycount wiki is has some good info for 3dsmax and maya.
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/GradientMapping

Other 3dsmax gradient workflows/scripts:

Gradient maps that use world space
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/3ds-max/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/3DSMax-Lighting-Shading/files/GUID-7CC927E9-37F5-47B7-9A86-9FC2617E0116-htm.html

Data Channel Modifier
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/3ds-max/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/3DSMax-Modifiers/files/GUID-99C5FAEC-993A-404F-BB09-B52C30679564-htm.html

Soulburn Scripts
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_tools/scripts/3dsmax/soulburnscripts.htm

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oglu polycount lvl 666

Jul 2019
We do all gradient stuff in Mudbox by hand. Its easy and fast. Even if the main tool is Substance.

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Neox godlike master sticky

Jul 2019
we use 3dcoat for it, also super quick and easy to use

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SnowInChina interpolator

Jul 2019
guess you could build a simple world uv setup for blender for baking

but, maybe not worth your time ? just do a front planar unwrap on uv#2 and bake it to uv#1

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