🚩 BakeMaster v2.7.0-demo

🚩 BakeMaster 2.7.0 Update Announcement | Available on BlenderMarket and Gumroad

This update arrives with important fixes and awesome new features to elevate your daily baking experience. A heartwarming note is that most features and fixes are always requested/reported by our lovely community of users at Discord and BlenderMarket. 🍞

🐛 Fixes:

1. Dithering noise appeared in composited bakes, issue93.
2. The first object always had World Lighting influence, issue85.
3. World Lighting was not muted properly when disabling Scene Lights, issue82.
4. UVMap Type, UVMap for Bake, and several other settings were not included in presets.
5. Full Map Preset, which populates maps list, did not work.
6. Mask maps, Albedo and other maps could not be baked with transparent background.
7. Partial support for baking cycles maps for Decal bakes.
8. Minor Addon Preferences UI remarks.

🎉 New Features:

1. Nested Node Groups support, issue73.
2. Improved PBR Map Preview, supports node groups and shader mixing, issue73.
3. A toggle to bake highpolies individually or in batch.
4. Default presets that are automatically executed - change default settings, issue95.

What's Changed

• MR: master -> dev-2.6.5 (sync with release-2.6.1 update) by @KirilStrezikozin in #77
• MR: dev-2.6.5 <- master by @KirilStrezikozin in #96

Full Changelog: 2.6.3...2.7.0

🚩 BakeMaster v2.6.3-demo

🚩 BakeMaster 2.6.3 Update Announcement | Available on BlenderMarket and Gumroad

BakeMaster 2.6.3 is out!

🐛 Fixes:

• Global/Bake Output presets cannot store batch names with mixed caps (mike_fr on Discord), issue90.
• Color Management rules overwrite saved preset settings (mike_fr on Discord), issue91.
• sRGB bakes had wrong colors (redundant color space transformation) (soeinfeuerball, mike_fr on Discord, @KirilStrezikozin), issue74

🎉 New features:

• Preset UI menu updated, displays 'Update preset' buttons and saves last used preset name (mike_fr on Discord), issue88.

What's Changed

• MR: release-2.6.3 -> master by @KirilStrezikozin in #92

Full Changelog: 2.6.2...2.6.3

🚩 BakeMaster v2.6.2-demo

🚩 BakeMaster 2.6.2 Update Announcement | Available on BlenderMarket and Gumroad

Update? - yes, please. 2.6.2 Cooked by lovely dev, served to lovely bakers.

🐛 Fixes:

• Multires bakes accidentally read wrong bake settings from Blender's bake panel (zaqraven99 on Discord), issue81
• Snap UV to pixels doesn't work (res_x undefined) (SSReaPeR and bvby0708 on Discord), issue83

🎉 New features:

• Toggle hide/not hide ShaderNodes in baked materials (mike_fr on Discord), issue84
• $materialname keyword for batch name (mike_fr on Discord), issue86

Changes:

• $mapname defaults to channel pack name when map is in one (mike_fr on Discord), issue87

What's Changed

• MR: release-2.6.2 -> master by @KirilStrezikozin in #89

Full Changelog: 2.6.1...2.6.2

🚩 BakeMaster v2.6.1-demo

🚩 BakeMaster 2.6.0 Update Announcement | Available on BlenderMarket and Gumroad

A little update to keep up the support of the recent 2.6.0 release.

🐛 Fixes:

• Create Bake Job Group could not proceed (soeinfeuerball on Discord)

🎉 New features:

• A toggle to use Scene & World lighting to bake Decal objs (marcovivirito on Discord, issue75)

What's Changed

• MR: release-2.6.1 -> master by @KirilStrezikozin in #76

Full Changelog: 2.6.0...2.6.1

🚩 BakeMaster v2.6.0-demo

🚩 BakeMaster 2.6.0 Update Announcement | Available on BlenderMarket and Gumroad

How's your baking been? BakeMaster will certainly make it even more awesome with its new update! 🍞
BakeMaster 2.6.0 is the full package incorporating the latest 2.6.0a, 2.6.0a1, 2.6.0a2, 2.6.0a3, 2.6.0a4, and 2.6.0a5. Apart from the already announced Blender 4.0 support, it includes important bug fixes and integrates recent feature requests to ease the burden of setting up your bakes.

🐛 Fixes:

• ID & Mask maps have errors (a lot actually) (JDFKAJFAF on BlenderMarket, issue37).
• Hang when creating a Bake Job Group (on MacOS) (apeonfire on Discord, issue46).
• VG Indexes didn't work properly (spawd on Discord, issue50).
• BakeMaster to see objects in isolation mode (sovanima on Discord, issue52).
• $texsetname in batch name didn't work properly (creepererer on Discord, issue56).
• Error when using "triangulate lowpoly" and a cage (numity on Discord, issue59).
• Can't set extrusion higher than 1 (hard limits issue) (marcovivirito on Discord, issue65).
• "Bake this" disables rendering of the rest of objects in BakeMaster (fairplex on Discord, issue66).
• Bake result was not saved in Blender 4.0.
• Bakes in Blender 4.0 are darker than the colors on highpolies.
• With each next highpoly being baked, its result in an image gets darker and darker (EXR file format).

🎉 New Features:

• Texture channel packing for vertex color maps (Kas.st#8843 on Discord, issue49).
• Map preview for objects inside containers (@KirilStrezikozin, issue55).
• Rename objects that are already added to BakeMaster (marcovivirito on Discord, issue57).
• Objects are added to BakeMaster following their order in Outliner (@KirilStrezikozin, issue58).
• Cage preview. View cage in real time when changing extrusion (bustercharlie on Discord, issue60).
• Custom texture colorspace workaround (alexander_lians on Discord, issue63).
• Make Decal baking more universal. Preview decal capture frame (marcovivirito on Discord, issue67).
• If overwrite is on, remove old baked materials (@KirilStrezikozin).
• Update AO map default values to be more neutral (@KirilStrezikozin).
• Decal map bakes can have transparent background (@KirilStrezikozin).

Changes and additions:

• Support for updated Blender 4.0 display devices and image color spaces.

PRs

• PR: fix #46 - segfault on macos when creaing a bakejobgroup by @KirilStrezikozin in #62

Full Changelog: release-2.5.2...release-2.6.0

🚩 BakeMaster v2.5.2-demo

Release - August 18th, 2023

Addon 2.5.2 version. A couple of important bug fixes and an exciting new feature.

The full list of fixes, features, and edits is here.

Fixes:

• Global presets did not include map formats (#41).
• Full Object Preset caused blender to crash (#44).

New Features:

• Texture upscaling by factor (#43).

🚩 BakeMaster v2.5.1-demo

Release - August 17th, 2023

Addon 2.5.1 version. Minor but crucial bug fix related to baking decals.

The full list of fixes, features, and edits is here.

Internal Fixes:

• Separate decals setting had no effect and decals were always baked onto separate images (#39).

🚩 BakeMaster v2.5.0-demo

Release - June 23rd, 2023

Addon 2.5.0 version. New features. Bug fixes. Edits.

The full list of fixes, features, and edits is here.

Internal Fixes:

• Existing nodes in Compositor are correctly restored after Denoise or Channel Pack (CU-85zt9rf2t).
• SSAA didn't work and had no effect (CU-85zt9ecuy).
• Ovewrite to remove previously baked images if the same names encountered (CU-85ztamht0).
• One extra bake was by mistake internally invoked when baking Texture Sets, which resulted in corrupted, unsaved image data (CU-85ztaz4vz).
• Match Resolution swapped height and width values (CU-85ztbhnjr).
• Existing Triangulation modifiers were ignored (CU-85zt7bmyc, #33).

New Features:

• Color Management Panel (CU-85zt7bm29).
• Show Image Color Depth options and set it correctly (CU-85zt9345a)
• TGA file format + TGA raw - uncompressed option (CU-85zt98v6t)
• DPX file format + save in Log option (CU-85ztaqqx5).
• CINEON file format (CU-85ztaqqx5).
• Output Compression for TIFF file format (CU-85ztaqrdc).
• Default file format and bit depth from color management is applied to new maps (CU-85ztaqtmx).
• Cavity map default values to match 50% grey in neutral areas (CU-85ztau27p).
• Channel Pack, Denoise, and Decal bake is now available when baking internally (CU-85ztauwtt, CU-85ztapkqf).
• Add Time elapsed and bake time of each map to Progress Report messages (CU-85ztauwzf).
• Bake with scene color management applied - Apply Scene (CU-85zt9rew9).
• Apply compositor nodes to bakes - Compositor (CU-85zt9revj).
• ACES color space for bakes (CU-85ztapkvm).
• Bake Cancel (BACKSPACE + ESC) now removes already baked files (CU-85ztb8bz5).
• Apply configured color management settings (Color Spaces, File Formats, Bit Depths) to existing maps with Quick Apply (CU-85ztb8q9h).
• Match Resolution now also shows images from the .blend file itself that are not linked to materials (CU-85ztbhnjr).
• Toggle image bit depth and see available properly in Format settings (CU-85zt933wz).
• Average Islands Scale checkbox for Texture Set UV Repack (CU-85zt7bqf7, #18).
• All panels now have scroll bars (CU-85zt8wmqm, #17).
• Low Resolution Mesh checkbox for bakes from Multires (CU-85zt8xnpv).
• Choose base subdivision level for bakes from Multires (CU-85zt7bqt9, #16).

Demo version in the install/
Full version on the Gumroad and BlenderMarket

🚩 BakeMaster v2.0.2-demo

Release - April 28th, 2023

Addon 2.0.2 version. Bug fixes. Updates.

Internal Fixes:

1. Albedo, Metallic, Roughness, and Opacity Maps weren't baked properly from Highpoly (#29)
2. ID Maps weren't baked if Object had NoneType Materials (dev-a1a4836)
3. If bake took more than a minute, "Bake completed in ..." didn't show correct time the bake took (dev-de81454)
4. Normal map colorspace could not be set (#27)
5. Normal Map bake with Oject/Materials data outputted raw vectors colors instead of normals (dev-717cc45)
6. UVMap for bake was set to be the UVMap to bake from (dev-e4aff4e)
7. Bake could not proceed when objects were hidden at the start (dev-07ead0b)
8. Normal Map bake from multires caused errors (dev-2c27a29)

New Features:

1. Pack tiled images since Blender 3.5 supports it (dev-9a954c8)

Demo version in the install/
Full version on the Gumroad and BlenderMarket

🚩 BakeMaster v2.0.1-demo

Release - March 8th, 2023

Addon 2.0.1 version. Added Studio Licenses on BlenderMarket.

Internal Fixes:

1. Image format (.png) is occasionally written twice (.png.png) (#22)
2. Roughness map wasn't added to Baked Material (dev-9d1a30a)
3. Color stepping when baking Displacement from Multires (dev-9d1a30a)
4. Displacement map from material not baking out (dev-9d1a30a)

The demo version has no difference from 2.0.0
Demo version in the install/
Full version on the Gumroad and BlenderMarket