Exporting a procedural blender texture to a file

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Hi everyone,

I would like to know if I can export a texture that I have created in Blender (a procedural texture like the noise one) to an image file that I can edit with an external tool.

It would be quite handy, otherwise I can still generate procedural textures from other software but I am getting quite used to the Blender ones!

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You could use Render Baking to convert your 3d procedural to a 2d image. I’m sure there’s a way to do this with Texture Nodes too … maybe look up some info for those features in the manual and release notes.

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I’ve made short how-to here:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=161933#10