Blender Texturing : Baking Curvature Map

[@OZTutoh]

For anyone who started with this video first, the render engine has to be set to Cycles, not Eevee, to see the pointiness in the renderer. Great tutorial, Jayanam.

[@JayAnAm]

Thx m8

[@MikeMike-wc8on]

Yes i was not able to see the effect till i figured this out! Thans!

[@alexandratkachiova4517]

THANKS!

[@NIKOLAZ621]

Very clear, thanks dude!

[@JayAnAm]

Thx m8!

[@darcytaylor2442]

Great lesson like always J!

[@JayAnAm]

Thanks again!

[@mattzart]

Thank you so much. This and the baking normal map video has really leveled up my Blender skills :]

[@ivanshevchyk1605]

Thank you. This node viewer thing is very useful.

[@deezero7103]

waaa, i been waiting for this for almost 1000 years finally i discovered that's how to bake those awesome details you sclupted to LOW poly and render engine has to be set to Cycles, not Eevee thank's man for the tutorial.

[@Marcelo_DevRussi]

Amazing tutorial as always! Just waiting for the next video :)

[@JayAnAm]

Ok, will come soon!

[@GUSRG]

Very useful. I love it.

[@JayAnAm]

Thank you!

[@AlexMakovsky]

Awesome! Thank You so much!

[@cherrythefruit1527]

This was helpful, thanks!

[@JayAnAm]

Glad to hear it!

[@LaCloacaDelGame]

Thanks! I like this tutorial!

[@jorge69696]

To speed up baking, change the tile size to 1024x1024 and lower the sample size to 50 or less.

[@JayAnAm]

Thx for the input!

[@divyanshusingh6468]

I am not abel to make a viewer node with the shortcut keys in Blender 4.2 !

[@M8cool]

Great tutorial. It would be nice to know why you select the options that you do (for example at 3:42, why do you select the emit option?). I know it's amateur, but it would help some of us. Thanks :)

[@JayAnAm]

I connected the Emission (the glow of the material) to the color output to display the curvature (pointiness) as greyscale and this is what I want to bake.

[@M8cool]

@@JayAnAm thanks for the explanation

[@josephtanko]

Thank you very much, what I've been looking for 👍🏿❤️

[@revotiva]

super cool!

[@JayAnAm]

Thx m8

[@pikachufan25]

Great Tutorial Straight the point!. Just When i got Curiose about this stuff too. hmm but now i have 2 Options on my head hmm Decals or Sculp?, hmm why not Both! now i just need to figure how to do that... o well guess first thing is first time to learn To Add Small Detail to my objects! and make them non Expensive in the Procress!. WooHoo!

[@CopyCatBlack]

sir can u teach me how to texture diffuse map direct indirect and color cuz i tried doing it it comes black and few was texture u showed the video very nice and neat maybe u might help me doing a diffuse texture :)

[@DariusYoung]

Your the MAN!

[@ZELFOR]

Thanks!

[@JayAnAm]

Very welcome

[@bayernmaik8583]

I am getting a lot of weird white spots on flat areas with that Geometry Node Pointiness, is this a known problem?

[@CGRunLough]

Nice video sir🤩

[@DJBLVZD]

mine looks nothing like that

[@디집어져]

I can't find viewer node in blender 4.2. For people like me, It seems that adding an emission shader node can completely replace the viewer node and achieve the exact same function.

[@nathanlefsrud7193]

Is the curvature map just another name for a bump map?

[@microcraft530]

thank you, it's work !

[@ahmetomercicek5848]

1.47 What are you doing here? Although I left shift crtl , the green box did not appear . I would appreciate your help, thank you.

[@VIZFORGE]

yeahhhhhh!! Thanks!!!

[@akarpovich]

Is that possible to create curvature map without high poly model

[@elsaelsa8863]

can someone please tell me what is curvature map is and why we should use it

[@kruz3d573]

Hi Jayanam, When I attempt to bake the curvature map after adding the ColorRamp, My mesh is just pure black. And I'm using the subd modeling technique to crease or harden the edges for my high-poly objects. Yes, I switched to Cycles for the Render Engine, but nothing seems to work after I connect the pointiness socket into the ColorRamp node's factor and SHIFT+CTRL+Left-Click nothing my object is just pure black and no edges are being shown on the object. Any solutions for this? I'm using Blender 2.91 stable version.

[@obiforcemaster]

If you're seeing black after applying the geometry and viewer nodes, make sure you have the high poly model selected and not the low poly. I had the low poly selected and was perplexed why nothing was changing, but when I noticed I had the wrong model selected and then selected the correct one, all was well.

[@kruz3d573]

@@obiforcemaster Damn, thank you for the help, but now this is almost 2 years ago, I switched to Marmoset for my bakings. I really don't bake in blender at all, because there is no point anymore since I own the Marmoset Toolbag 4 perpetual license. THANKS for your time on writing this comment to help people, good on you sir.

[@obiforcemaster]

@@kruz3d573 Yeah, hopefully it will help someone else on the future if they have trouble. Didn't realize it was that old until now. 🙃

[@jimbotht1091]

Thank you

[@A-D-S-P]

👌 blender3D the Best 🐒

[@atoaster2070]

I've seen tutorials similar to this one and they refer to it as a cavity map. Are curvature and cavity maps the same thing?

[@JayAnAm]

No they are not, read here: wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Cavity_map

[@lalithaananthan3023]

@@JayAnAm thanks very much Jayanam

[@AnteP-dx4my]

sO WHATS the purpose of this map . to be a base color and then u use other nodes to change it to your liking?

[@JayAnAm]

I will show this in the next part: I short terms, I will use it as a kind of mask for the albedo map, will be online soon:-)

[@AnteP-dx4my]

@@JayAnAm aight :)

[@thefriendlyaspie7984]

thanks

[@garen591]

Nice video. When you bake the curvature map, do you set the color space of texture node to sRGB or non-color data?

[@JayAnAm]

A curvature map is non-color.

[@garen591]

@@JayAnAm I see. Thanks! How about AO map, is it non-color too?

[@JayAnAm]

@@garen591 Yes

[@garen591]

@@JayAnAm I just rewatched this video again. And i realise you set the image node to use sRGB color space instead of non-color space when baking your curvature map. It should be using non-color space correct?

[@JayAnAm]

@@garen591 At which time in the video?

[@sagitta98]

Can I use curvature map as height/displacement map?

[@rokuonl2297]

why tho?

[@dmitrysmoke283]

thanks!!!

[@JayAnAm]

You're welcome!

[@ApexArtistX]

my models has no pointiness

[@danielhadad4911]

It looks a lot like Dirty Vertex Color. I wonder if they're actually the same. Anyway, thanks!

[@Ed38001]

wouldn't normalizing the pointiness work better than using a color ramp? good tutorial otherwise though

[@JayAnAm]

I dont think it is even possible to really normalize the pointiness (you mean to range of 0..1?) cause cycles would have to find a minimum and maxium first and then recalculate for evey point. But of course there are many ways to create a curvature... also the bevel node could be intersting for this e.g. in combination with the geomerties normals... have to try this.

[@Al1987ac]

I'm aware of Normalize node in Compositor. Is there a similar node in Shader Editor?

[@Ed38001]

@@Al1987ac under vector math i believe

[@Ed38001]

@@Al1987ac however I had much more success plugging the resulting bake into the compositor and normalizing it there than trying to normalize it in the shader editor, so i'd recommend doing that instead

[@johnrossporter3439]

Why does this have to be so complicated? You'd think they'd want to make a little easier to bake a curvature map.

[@JayAnAm]

Perhaps I write an addon or a custom node, will see:-)

[@yanshuoli69]

WELL HOW THE FUCK U GET TAHT GREEN NODE AND DONT TELL ME NODE WRANGLER

[@obiforcemaster]

It's just an emission node, which you can find in the normal way (SHIFT+A) in CTRL+SHIFT+LMB doesn't work.

[@Daemonpool65]

this made me burst out laughing. 🤣 you voiced my frustrations as I was scrolling through to find the answers

[@thefriendlyaspie7984]

thanks

[@mooam231]

Thanks