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Re: Texture baking features?
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… -
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Okay, I think I understand better now. For instance, say we have a car with windshields just like any other car, and we decide to bake the car's AO as is without consideration to remove them from the baking process. Naturally, they will contribute to AO baking process and depending on the AO's baking settings (i.e. here)… -
Re: Texture baking features?
So I assume the source object(leaf) is an actual high poly mesh and during AO bake where the rays (projected from the quad/bilboard) happen to miss we're left a black color instead of transparency, and we can't write a shader that uses black parts of the leaf texture as a transparency/opacity factor since some occluded… -
Re: Texture baking features?
@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… -
Re: Texture baking features?
the source object would be an arrangement of opaque branches with individual leaves represented as 'planes' with transparent texture applied - these will overlap with each other / the branch and in most cases when you bake the result to a plane the transparency is not respected . S = source A = what you get B = what you… -
Re: Texture baking features?
yes - although the lod chain part doesn't bother me personally since both simplygon and speedtree cope well enough with lodding/billboard generation. im more interested in baking the high-lod leaf atlases and - to the shader question. the ability to gather any data I might happen to need from a mesh, composite and transfer… -
Re: Texture baking features?
If the highpoly has transparency, like glass windows, or foliage textured planes, then baking from that is problematic in most bakers… whether directly back onto the highpoly, or onto a lowpoly. Substance Painter doesn’t alter the need for UV offsets. This is an issue about UV space savings, and how intentional overlapping… -
Re: Texture baking features?
I recall around 2017 3dmax to Arnold plugin had baking camera that could bake whatever you want , including custom AOVs , a whole set of Arnold utilities and through clip textures for alpha leaves. I used it to render small scattered geometry to surface. Or maybe It was in Arnold standalone. Can't find a trace of it now.… -
Texture baking features?
From your personal perspective and experience what baking features would you like to see in your software of choice, irrespective if it's Blender, Maya, Max, Substance Painter, Marmoset Toolbag etc. Would per object baking settings be something you'd like too see? For instance, say you have a hero character model with… -
Re: Texture baking features?
@iam717 So if I got this correctly, you essentially want a form of post processing for baked textures? If that's the case, I'm curious to know for what bake types and exact benefit? Would channel packing and compression(i.e. Normal xyz to Normal zy) also be something of a value to you? Not to stray too much off topic but…
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