hey everybody
Is it possible to save textures, which are made in blender cycles to the harddrive? For example: i’m creating a noise texture for a displacement effect with the node editor. Can I save this created texture to the harddrive to use it in another program? If yes, how?
have a nice sunday
-tanGGhost
You can bake Textures in the render panel in Blender Internal - Im not sure aboout Cycles though
Not directly, that would go against the idea of procedural materials… But take a plane, use your texture as color of an emission shader, put a camera in orthographic mode looking straight a the middle of your plane using this material.
Render. Save.
That should bring you close from what you want. 
And if you need some transparency, set the world background to Holdout, activate the “Transparent” option for the Film in the Render panel, as well as RGBA as output.
I really like that idea, thanks alot for helping !!!
I actually like the idea of being able to save the texture data in a designated file/cache for quick view/browsing and retrieval. It seems tedious to continually have to define otherwise quickly recalled textures. Am I completely off base?