@Celosia No worries, you don't sound pretentious at all. You're quite right and I agree, it's not an add-on one bit, it's my fault that I called it an add-on by mistake in this thread. And if you refer back to the blender artists page you'll see that it's not posted in blender's released scripts and theme but in blender's…
@MediumSolidCorrect, I had meant via standard naming conventions as opposed to utilising an 'exploded' baked option and as referred too earlier have tested couple of scripts/addons for instance EZ Baker at this point have to say quite a functional little app in which it's UX does offer the choice between native Cycles or…
Yeah, my mistake, for some reason I immediately switched from mentally imagining the source object to bilboard bake to source object to standard low poly bake hence I started asking non-sensical questions. But now that I've cleared my head and with this new reply of yours everything is perfectly explained and is very much…
Thank you for the precise explanation, I really appreciate it. I just can't believe I forgot about the limitation of number of attributes per vertex, now it's clear to me how "baking" those attributes could be useful. However, would it be correct to assume that you're talking about data extraction from low poly object…
not just that no - I've not done a great job of explaining myself :) there are a number of use cases As a high-res to low-res transfer example - and sticking with trees: in your source model (the picture i drew before) You can use speedtree to assign vertex color values by index to leaves/branches, you can also apply a…