Ignore Back Faces ensures that faces of the high poly mesh which point away from the baker will not be recorded.

Smooth Cage determines whether to average the cage normals or use the low poly’s vertex normals for the projection direction. This can be helpful if you want to move your low poly meshes off to the side for preview while retaining full baking functionality. When enabled, Ignore Transforms will assume all meshes are positioned at 0,0,0. Use Hidden Meshes determines whether objects hidden in the outliner will contribute to the baked result. You can find various global mesh settings in the Geometry tab. When enabling more outputs, be sure to click the material preview button again to see the additional maps. The P button creates a preview material which is applied to your low poly object(s), with temporary maps automatically assigned so you can quickly preview your bake. The H and L buttons toggle visibility for all of the High and Low slots respectively. The Bake button bakes your outputs and saves them to disk, and to the right is the New Bake Group button. Top BarĪ number of useful buttons live in the top bar of the Baker object properties. Getting Startedįollow along with the video to get familiar with Toolbag’s baking workflow, and read below for an in-depth explanation of some of the key features. Toolbag has no polygon limit, however, performance depends on the specific GPU that you’re using. Toolbag’s powerful GPU rendering engine is capable of handling very high resolution meshes, well into the millions of polygons when used with modern video cards. The baker has been designed with artists in mind, and tools like bake groups, offset and skew painting, and real-time preview combine to create an exceptionally intuitive and efficient baking workflow. Toolbag’s baking tools are not only fast, they’re smart too! When making adjustments to local areas of your mesh, it will rebake only the affected area, resulting in a near-instantaneous update to the previewed result. Toolbag utilizes the power of your GPU (video card) to create super fast bakes. Read below to learn where to find them, what they do, and how to leverage their power to produce stunning bakes. This section covers all of the best and most interesting buttons, sliders, and features that Toolbag’s baking tools have to offer. From the technical to the artistic, follow along as we shed light on numerous subjects to enable you to quickly and easily solve common problems and optimize your art content for fabulously fresh bakes.

This tutorial will get you up to speed with Marmoset Toolbag’s baker.

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