/PolyBake

Helps to bake texture from high poly mesh to low poly mesh with UV unwrapping. Fast texture baking UI in 3D View Sidebar under 'bake'.

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PolyBake Addon

PolyBake is a powerful Blender addon that simplifies the process of baking high-poly mesh details onto a low-poly mesh. It supports various baking options, including tangent normals, object normals, color, roughness, occlusion, and UV wireframe. With PolyBake, you can quickly generate texture maps for your models, making it ideal for game development, visualization, and more.

Features

  • Bakes high-poly mesh details onto low-poly meshes
  • Supports tangent normals, object normals, color, roughness, occlusion, and UV wireframe
  • User-friendly UI for easy and fast iteration
  • Speeds up texture baking process in Blender
  • Ideal for game development, visualization, and other projects

Installation

  1. Download the latest release from the Releases page.
  2. Open Blender.
  3. Go to Edit > Preferences.
  4. Click on the Add-ons tab.
  5. Click Install... and select the downloaded addon ZIP file.
  6. Enable the "PolyBake" addon by checking the checkbox next to it.

Usage

  1. Open the 3D Viewport in Blender.
  2. In the Sidebar, go to the "Bake" section.
  3. Select your high-poly mesh as the source and your low-poly mesh as the target.
  4. Choose the baking options you want to use (tangent normals, object normals, color, roughness, occlusion, and/or UV wireframe).
  5. Click the "Bake" button to generate the texture maps.
  6. Find the baked texture maps in the UV/Image Editor.

Contributing

If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, feel free to create an issue or submit a pull request. Your contributions are highly appreciated!

License

PolyBake is licensed under the MIT License.