Good video by Brandon’s Drawings that not solely comprehensively covers SimpleBake’s options in a simple to grasp method, but in addition explains the very issues with Blender’s native baking which are the rationale for SimpleBake’s existence. Additionally take a look at their different content material right here.
Improbable movies by Alex Pearce (additionally take a look at their glorious different content material) which do a significantly better job of explaining tips on how to use SimpleBake than I ever may:
Improbable video from POLYCOSM going into the options of SimpleBake and tips on how to use it in a very simple to grasp method.
My very own movies which are full garbage compared to the above:
Introduction
SimpleBake is the definitive baking answer for Blender. In brief, it permits you to merely bake PBR and different textures.
Blender offers a really highly effective technique to create complicated PBR supplies by utilizing nodes. Nevertheless, what needs to be a easy means of baking and exporting these supplies to be used with different software program or programs (Substance Painter, Second Life, Sketchfab, Unity and many others.) is surprisingly troublesome.
SimpleBake goals to deal with this downside. SimpleBake is an addon / instrument that gives a one-click answer for merely baking PBR maps from supplies created in Blender.
Nevertheless, SimpleBake isn’t simply an add-on for PBR. You’ll be able to simply bake the entire “conventional” Cycles bake modes, together with other forms of specialist maps (Ambient Occlusion, Curvature, Thickness, Vertex Colors and Color ID).
See beneath for a full overview of the options, and in addition take a look at the FAQs and scores for extra data.
PBR Baking
- Easy PBR baking – Simply choose what textures you need (Diffuse, Metallic / Metallic, Roughness, Regular, Transmission, Transmission Roughness, Clearcoat, Clearcoat Roughness, Emission Specular and Alpha) and SimpleBake will spit them out.
- Create complicated supplies the way you wish to -Create your PBR supplies within the ordinary method. Have as many supplies in your object as you need. Use a number of Principled BSDFs and Emission shaders in these supplies to get the end result you need (one thing that units SimpleBake other than different addons). Use Combine Shader nodes to combine them collectively the way you need. Use no matter enter to these shaders that you really want.
- Totally versatile channel packing – (Blender 3+ model solely)
