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Simplebake
Simplebake is a powerful baking add-on for Blender, a popular 3D modeling and rendering software. This add-on simplifies the process of baking textures, making it more efficient and user-friendly. With Simplebake, users can easily generate high-quality texture maps, such as ambient occlusion, normal, and displacement maps, by utilizing Blender’s built-in baking capabilities.
Blender provides a very powerful way to create complex PBR materials by using nodes. However, what should be a simple process of baking and exporting these materials for use with other software or systems (Substance Painter, Second Life, Sketchfab, Unity etc.) is surprisingly difficult.
SimpleBake aims to address this problem. SimpleBake is an addon / tool that provides a one-click solution for simply baking PBR maps from materials created in Blender.
It offers a range of features, including options for anti-aliasing, cage baking, and non-square maps. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced 3D artist, Simplebake provides a streamlined workflow for baking textures in Blender, saving you time and effort in the texture creation process.
Features of Simplebake
- Simple PBR baking – Just select what textures you want (Diffuse, Metallic / Metal, Roughness, Normal, Transmission, Transmission Roughness, Clearcoat, Clearcoat Roughness, Emission Specular and Alpha) and SimpleBake will spit them out.
- Create complex materials how you want to -Create your PBR materials in the usual way. Have as many materials on your object as you want. Use multiple Principled BSDFs and Emission shaders in those materials to get the result you want (something that sets SimpleBake apart from other addons). Use Mix Shader nodes to mix them together how you want. Use whatever input to those shaders that you want.
- Simple and Intuitive Interface: Simplebake comes with a user-friendly interface, making it easy for artists of all levels to navigate and use the add-on efficiently.
- Baking Modes: Simplebake supports different baking modes, including Ambient Occlusion, Normal Map, Displacement Map, and more. This allows for the creation of various texture maps to enhance the realism and detail of 3D models.
- Anti-Aliasing: Simplebake provides anti-aliasing options to smooth out jagged edges and produce more visually appealing and clean textures.
- Cage Baking: The add-on supports cage baking, which helps to prevent distortion and ensure accurate texture generation when baking high-polygon or complex geometry onto low-polygon models.
- Non-Square Maps: Simplebake allows users to create non-square texture maps, providing more flexibility and control in mapping textures onto different objects or UV layouts.
- Batch Baking: With Simplebake, it is possible to batch bake multiple objects simultaneously, saving time and streamlining the baking process.
- Automatic UV Unwrapping: Simplebake offers an automated UV unwrapping feature, reducing the manual effort required for unwrapping the UVs of objects.
- Customizability: The add-on provides various customizable settings, allowing users to adjust parameters such as margin size, ray distance, and ray bias to achieve desired baking results.
Simplebake System requirements
- 64-bit dual-core 2Ghz CPU with SSE2 support
- 4 GB RAM
- 1280 × 768 screen
- Mouse, touchpad or pen + tablet
- Graphics card with 1 GB RAM, OpenGL 3.3
- Blender version 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 4.1
Simplebake Free Download
SimpleBake v1.1.8 (Blender)
SimpleBake v1.1.3 (Blender)
Simplebake v3.5.7 (Blender)
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How to install Simplebake
- Install Blender First
- Open the software, click Edit (EDIT) → Preference → Plug-in (Aadd-ONS) → Install
- Restart Blender, you can see the installed plug -in in the file → user settings → plug -in
