Create Blender baking tutorial #66
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| tags: ['blender', 'baking', 'normal-maps', 'article', 'tutorial', 'showcase'] | ||
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| Real time rendering performance is often limited by 3D assets as much as it's limited by code. Good low poly assets inevitably rely on baking, the process of transferring details from a high poly mesh with a complex material to a low poly one with a much simpler material. Unfortunately however there seems to be a lack of info regarding baking around, especially in Blender things can sometimes be a bit intuitive regarding baking. In the process of working on my game, A Short Odyssey, I came up with a workflow that works quite well for me, so I will share it with you today. |
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In the third sentence, "Unfortunately" needs a comma after it and "however" should be removed (or have another comma after it).
In the third sentence, a period should come after "around". "Blender" needs a comma after it.
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| As with all of the free CC0 models on Polyhaven this mesh has a fairly high number of small triangles, 4,666 to be exact, while that may not seem like alot think about how big it is likely to be in a realtime scene. Most of the time the entire bowl might only be a few pixels tall! Especially given that small triangles are much more expensive than large triangles (due to quad occupancy) this is probably something we should deal with. |
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First sentence: "exact" should have a period after.
"alot" should be "a lot" and have a comma after.
Consistency: consider splitting "realtime" into two words or combining the words elsewhere (e.g. on line 10).
In the last sentence, consider adding a comma after "occupancy)".
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| Now that we understand why we must bake, lets go ahead and do it. |
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| # Preparing for the Bake | ||
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| Open up your high poly model in Blender, I am using Blender 4.4, other versions should work but your UI might not match up exactly with this tutorial. |
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| You then will need a low poly version of the model. How create a low poly model is outside the scope of this tutorial, but it *must* be UV-unwrapped before proceeding and none of the polygons should be overlapping on the UV map. |
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In the second sentence, "How create" -> "How to create".
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| If it is not you can apply the scale with Ctrl+A -> Apply -> Scale, while the low poly object is selected in object mode. |
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| Next you need to add a triangulate modifier to the low poly object, the exact options you pick here don't really matter but if you change them after the bake you must re-bake all maps. |
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Add a comma after "Next".
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