Bake Wrangler is a nodes based extension and replacement for the inbuilt baking system. The aim is to provide a highly configurable but easy to use baking system with all the extra features you really wish you had.
Direct Download: BakeWrangler_b0_7.zip
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Bake Wrangler beta 0.7 (imageset):
Adds support for all image format settings. Output to alpha channel will now work when using a format that supports alpha.
- Choose Color Space (sRGB, Linear, Non-Color, etc)
- Choose format (BW, RGB, RGBA)
- Choose depth (8, 16, 32, etc)
Note: There are a lot of possible settings and I havenāt tested all the combinations, but they should be working. Report if you find any problems!
Bake Wrangler beta 0.6.1 (imagespeed):
Small update to fix an issue with multires and masks. Also improved the speed of the image manipulation step and made connections to image channels behave in a more useful and sensibile way:
Color socket to a R/G/B socket will now take that color (eg Color to B socket will take B channel from the Color). Channel (R/G/B) socket to a Color socket works the same, but in reverse (eg B to Color socket will write B channel to the Color).
Bake Wrangler beta 0.6:
This update fixes a number of bugs, improves the UI and feed back along with new features to fully support all bake types and options. This version should be much more robust and handle many weird cases that would cause the previous version to fail.
- All built-in bake types supported with all options.
- Additional bake passes for Principled shader: Albedo, Metalness
- Bake and Save at different resolutions
- Bake directly to specific image channels (alpha currently not working)
- Masking with separate sample count for baking multiple passes to one image
- Support for Multires and Cages
- All baking takes place in the background using a separate copy of the data. Nothing is changed in your scene and you can continue working while images bake without problems.
Planned Features (by 1.0 release):
- Implement the āBake Imageā work flow (currently only āBake Passā workflow is enabled)
- Full batch grouping support to bake multiple passes and/or images with a single button
Desired Features (depending on community support):
- As part of batch support, one click previewing of baked textures on selected model
- Selecting of Collections in addition to objects (big time saving for very large projects)
- Automatic file naming for batch output (%O, etc)
- Additional node types for cleaner layouts, rerouting, grouping, etc
- Additional post processing nodes, like Anti-aliasing (can already sort of do this by baking and saving at different sizes)
- Add selected to High Poly node
- Extra features as desired and requested by the users