How to bake textures in Blender with your GPU!

[@nikolayuslarssonian2643]

Holy frickin crap what a euphoric fix and perfectly timed algorithm recommend

[@Outmind01]

Wow, this is super useful advice! Thanks to you I baked a 4K UV map in six minutes that would have taken more than three hours otherwise!

[@AlexPearce3d]

That's awesome man! Glad to have helped.

[@colymoli4311]

i am sorry but this settings arent working for me. the baking process is still happening on the CPU. i can see the CPU load goes up on task manager

[@robertbencze8205]

Blender 3.6 freezes on my laptop and I can't see the bake status of a particle animation with force fields. I also can't stop it. I already had the settings you shown, but in task manager, the resource usage would not go up at all. Am I missing something? Hardware specs below: I have a laptop with i7 12th gen, RTX 3050 Ti and 32 GB RAM 4800 MHZ

[@dimitrarusarov]

i was screwing arround baking a texture for 1 hour, i saw this and i did the same thing in 10 minutes. its stunning

[@xrgamedesign276]

Alex ! Thanks for this and all your blender rendering work!

[@lukaz2040]

this advise and simplebake addon are making my life so easy. Too easy.

[@AlexPearce3d]

Great!

[@wrenchboy830]

Wow!!! Thank you! People need to see this who uses CPU when baking I have been baking using CPU since I made the Optix options.

[@AlexPearce3d]

I know right?!

[@renatomota9830]

This doesn't work, when you look at the task manager only the CPU works (100% usage) while the GPU remains at minimum. Ryzen 5600 and RTX 3060TI here.

[@sripranav]

It still bakes with CPU. I was said that baking textures is CPU only?

[@colymoli4311]

same for me. and idk if his GPU is baking the texture he didnt proofed the GPU is baking the texutre

[@ivanlarsson9819]

Thank you! You just removed hours of boredom from my life!

[@AlexPearce3d]

I know right?!

[@MicMan2710]

Such a simple setting. Thanks for the help

[@jogo7947]

Oddly, Blender already had my GPU checked off by itself by default. However it was still rending with the CPU and even the baking settings were set to GPU Computer. But when I unchecked GPU option, then checked it on again, it started rendering with the GPU and now my bakes take under 10 seconds.

[@rixouney]

Holy smokes! THANK YOU DUDE! This is a life saver!!!

[@AlexPearce3d]

Glad to have helped!

[@TheStrokeForge]

THIS WAS A GODD DAAMNN LIFE SAVERRR, MAYY GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!!!!!!

[@AlexPearce3d]

Haha Thanks Farhan! yeah when i discovered it I was blown away. Have you checked out The Lightmapper for Blender? It's a free addon, you can find it on github or blenderender.

[@TheStrokeForge]

@@AlexPearce3d oh no! Haven't heard about this add-on! I'll check it out thanks so much man!

[@AlexPearce3d]

Yeah man!

[@aortaplatinum]

Ah THAT'S why it was so slow, holy SHIT it's fast now. I'm sure adjusting my render samples helped as well, didn't know that's what effected bake samples too. Thanks man, I'm doing a project stylized to look like a cheap SEGA Saturn game, so I'm using almost exclusively baked image textures. I don't know how many overall, collective hours of throttled bake time you just saved me.

[@leopolldo007]

Great ! Thanks for this tip.👍🙏

[@potiswad]

Thanks!.... like you, I've had them both checked for the past 2yrs.

[@cappypyramsaudpate5535]

another tip. set your x and y tile size to the exact same size as your image, it bakes even faster. if you happen to be baking 8k textures maybe dial it down to half that

[@AlexPearce3d]

Thanks!

[@paulchambers3d]

Perfect. Just what I needed!

[@ShotArch]

Thanks You save my alot of Time ❤

[@piereligiodisante]

I think it even works on 3.5. But I'm not entirely sure. On Optix the GPU fans won't spin, on Cycles they do. The GPU stays pretty much low on power regardless, but seems it's doing something at least.

[@caiocabral7504]

Thank you! Really helped me!

[@ThunderPlayStudios]

aaye man Thaaanks sir

[@fabiogambaro9066]

Thank you, very helpful !

[@AlexPearce3d]

Thanks for the comment!

[@tekism28]

You're the best!

[@AlexPearce3d]

Thanks man!

[@R0KK0JI]

I thought it uses cpu anyway since its not set up to use gpu and never had been 🤨 you should have shown task manager

[@antb1xp963]

Thank you

[@digitalartworm]

Thanks - great tip!

[@AlexPearce3d]

Glad it was helpful!

[@KarimBouacem]

Doesnt work while trying to make suzanne on fire 🙃 still uses cpu

[@AlexPearce3d]

doh! yeah i guess a different type of baking

[@neatpolygons8500]

this is actually a great tip. i was using optix instead of cuda and the bake button doesn't show up at all when selecting GPU. and silly me thought blender can't bake using gpu

[@AlexPearce3d]

It's not silly you, it's silly blender for not letting us know! If you have Optix checked there should be a text where bake should be that says "to bake with gpu, switch to Cuda". It's like a secret that a few people like me accidently figured out :(

[@neatpolygons8500]

@@AlexPearce3dthere's a message under Optix that says "some cycles features aren't available yet in optix" I think that includes baking

[@AlexPearce3d]

Yeah that's not good enough though, in my opinion. Especially for a crucial action like baking.

[@myelinsheathxd]

thx!

[@wanderingthedesert5599]

I've got to try this. I normally avoid Blender because I can't get past the modeling UI (I'm coming from Modo and Maya primarily), and normally do all of my bakes in Substance Painter. However, what happens when you need to bake a light map of a very complex texture? I wind up spending ungodly amounts of time in Modo trying everything I can to not have to spend hours waiting for something that's unusable. I'm really hoping that this works a lot easier and more importantly faster than what I've been doing with CPU-based bakers.

[@GrahamPhisher]

too bad it doesn't work for physics

[@albertkovtoun662]

Why did I not know this. This is truly embarrassing

[@auhsojj]

i have amd radeon.... 🤡

[@AlexPearce3d]

With amd, can you bake with your gpu? I know that AMD proremder doesn't have any baking options because I tried, but with cycles, can you?

[@auhsojj]

@@AlexPearce3d for me, my pc freezes every time i try to test and compare. I can only use CPU unfortunately :/

[@AlexPearce3d]

@@auhsojj arg that's frustrating, sorry that's the case.

[@auhsojj]

@@AlexPearce3d just here withering away while my bakes are 5 hours...

[@AlexPearce3d]

Dang! You know, you can bring your textures into the compositor and run them through the denoiser.that should save you a few hours. Simplebake addon has an option that will do it all and re import.

[@blenderblender792]

Blender is full of stublers.

[@chokedboystream]

even with this tech when i bake my rtx 2080 TI keep working between 0 and 11%, i don't get it...