How can I make 2D material textures from a 3D object?

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@cr0ssmind

My problem is that texture baking is working only as unwrapped UVs and not from a given frontal camera angle

In simple terms, baking is like every plane is a camera so you can just bake to a plane to get a single projection direction.

For per material component baking, I think there are some free addons for that, perhaps someone else can offer suggestions.

Edit: Here’s one