Bake to Selected Image Proposal
This proposal is to have an option to select/create an image directly in the Bake Panel and use it as the target image for the bake command.
It would be nice if we could keep using the active node as a target to the bake command, but I have been teaching Blender for a while and I think it is confusing for the new users. If we had this options I believe it would be easier and it would also make the "render to active node" workflow more obvious as it would be clearly stated as an option.
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We needed this feature in our studio badly. So made one:
Download: github.com/cgvirus/Blender-Bake-Selected-Image-Addon
Demo Tutorial: youtu.be/GP20x33_wXY
* @contact.cgvirus * Great Work! I would love if it bacame official! :)
If we should have an option to select image we should also have an option to select UVmap. I like the idea but I also believe that the bakery should be moved somewhere else and with a proper workspace.
yes this is really confusing and an annoyance, this sollution would make the process of baking much more straight forward
It's a good idea ;)
I don't know if you know the textool by renderhjs, it's a really cool baking tool renderhjs.net/textools/blender/ that's make automaticatly a new texute input with a lot of baker and options.
I hope it will make a version for the 2.8 when it will be stable enough for the prodution
@anthony.guiziou: Hi Anthony. I did not know this tool. It looks amazing. But I work as an modeling and animation instructor and I kind of can feel when some workflow is difficult for the new users to learn. I think addons are great, but I think the default software should be easy to use. I personally don't have a problem with the selected node workflow. But I think it is confusing for those that are starting over.
@gustavorosa: Yes, blender is really difficult to use at begining, and the baker is quite difficult to understand when we do not know, or when we just started, especially to understand how to apply a texture to baked . And have an option to choose texture to bake like this is a really good idea for that, if we are a new user and don't used any of addon
A new user need to learn how to set the texture for both cycles and blender internal. This type of problems make people give up on blender.