Texture Baking for Beginners (Blender Tutorial)

[@RyanKingArt]

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[@gdog8170]

how to bake the colormap but without the black background?

[@threemr01]

Fantastic tutorial! The right level of detail and pace to actually follow up the description (whereas others just fly the mouse across the screen or use the shortcuts without calling them out). This is the topic I was looking for. Thank you so much, Ryan! I’ll sure be supporting your channel.

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it! I appreciate any support you can offer. 😀

[@geodesic98]

This video was EXTREMELY helpful. It's chock full of little tips to make the process easier. I didn't know that tip about using emit!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Darth_Melvis]

Your baking tutorials helped a lot more than others I've watched finally figured out how to unwrap and create textures to finish my first thing I've made on blender.

[@RyanKingArt]

glad it helped!

[@AcercateaRD]

Your tutorials are so detailed and easy to understand. Outstanding!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad you like them!

[@VgHost-26]

Finally! I've been waiting years for such a valuable and easy baking tutorial. Thank you!

[@RyanKingArt]

You are so welcome!

[@Maria-fo2xw]

This tutorial was awesome, I always got confused with baking but you made it seem really easy. Also, the timestamps were really useful!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@deletemeforevs]

At first i was like oh dear!! another complicated tutorial ahhh! but you made this procedure easy to understand, and eventually execute. Thank you.

[@solace761]

Thank you for the tip on turning the metallic value to zero! I've been using Blender for years but was tearing my hair out trying to troubleshoot my black bake texture. You rock!

[@RyanKingArt]

Yeah when I first started learning texture baking I found that kinda annoying. Glad it helped! thanks for watching. 🙂

[@yourwellnesstoday]

I love how simple and concise your explanations are, they are very accurate and extremely helpful, many thanks!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad you like them!

[@raoulette]

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[@RyanKingArt]

I understand. That is totally ok. I still appreciate you watching my videos! Any support is appreciated!

[@jeffreyspinner9720]

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[@eltitano1]

@@jeffreyspinner9720 in the eu, people are currently paying the price for the naive politics of recent years. the usa is little affected because they are not so dependent on russian raw materials. your problem is more the dependence on china...

[@jeffreyspinner9720]

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[@raoulette]

@@jeffreyspinner9720 No comments. This is not the place to talk about things that don't concern you. Here, we only talk about Blender and Ryan's work.

[@andrewleighton9000]

This is just the tutorial I've been looking for. I'm finally starting to get my head around baking textures. Thank you!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@diogolscc]

i literally searched for that yesterday and here you are helping me once again

[@RyanKingArt]

glad it helped!

[@edmldw]

Thank you Ryan for sharing this, incredibly detailed and meticulous, much appreciated!

[@RyanKingArt]

you're welcome!! 👍‍

[@lucasalmeida7951]

Dude, just cuz you explained step by step really slow, it helped A LOT!!!! I just found your channel.....it doesn't mean much but you got a new sub. NICE WORK!!!!! THANK YO|U

[@RyanKingArt]

glad the video helped you!

[@rosegraham5780]

OMG thankyou so much! i am modding for the sims 4 and the offical tutorial page had a ( slightly not very, ) outdated tutorial on baking and uv editing, since the compatible version has finally been updated to past 3.0 versions of blender. thankyou for claryfying features that have been added in these ( newer and so much better versions of the program !)

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it helped! Thanks for watching!

[@harrywizards3323]

This is best sir this technique really help to optimize my games Other than using different textures

[@RyanKingArt]

Cool 👍‍

[@louismajor4394]

Useful and very well explained as always.

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@smilgu]

Thanks, Ryan! Great tutorial as always.

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@UnpluggedArena]

brooooooo you are the blender god for me , like fr. and also just wanna highlight the way you taught the topics are insane, how calm and smoothly you taught everything, i hope you'll create more and more videos like this, and in future when ill start earning i'll sure join your channel brother 🙏🙏👌👌❤❤ please never stop making videos like these. such a talented person u r 👌👌

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like my videos!

[@UnpluggedArena]

@@RyanKingArt definitely brother they are literally what I've been searching for 🙏🏻 Love from India 🔥 keep the good work brother 👍🏻

[@earthmatters2869]

Your are really amazing man every toturials are very understanding keep making man bro 😇😇

[@RyanKingArt]

glad they are helpful!

[@mazinzhang1290]

Thank you very much for your video. This problem has puzzled me for a long time. Finally, I found a solution in your video. It really helps me a lot!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it helped!

[@No1Idle]

Hi thank you very much for the amazing tutorial, really clear! I'm using blender 4.1 and it seems a little different, I do not have the viewer node. I tried to bake the metallic map in 2 ways. First method i used directly an emission shader (following what you where saying in the tutorial). Second method i connected the metallic color ramp to the emission input in the principled BSDF and i turned the strength to 1. It seems that i get the same result with both methods but i'm a beginner and i just wanted to be sure that what i'm doing is correct. Also there is a new option in the baking, the "View From", i kept the default "Above surface"

[@PPDanYT]

Can't ask for a better tutorial explaining every steps - hotkeys - panel splits etc... As a beginner, i've learned more than texture baking here. Thanks

[@RyanKingArt]

glad it was helpful, thanks for watching!

[@hsan.1951]

I always wondered why do we need to bake textures. Thank you.

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching!

[@Kaargl]

FANTASTIC tutorial.

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@OEL3D]

Thank you so much for this video you helping so much.

[@RyanKingArt]

glad its helpful! thanks for watching.

[@FusionArt_3D]

Thank you sir finally i learn how to export Texture thanks for Big help ❤

[@RyanKingArt]

glad it helped!

[@blenderstuffs]

Amazing 🤩

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks!

[@aleksvitek798]

THE KING!

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks! : )

[@makersprototype5115]

Thank you for the well spoken and didact Videos u made for us. Last night I had a dream with you in it. Didnt know you only 10 Inch tall! ^^

[@ranger2671]

Thanks! This video helps me out a lot!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it helped! thanks for watching.

[@krowznazddine4189]

Thank u 💓 for ur tutorials

[@RyanKingArt]

you're welcome!

[@awyeagames]

Valeu!

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for your support!

[@awyeagames]

@@RyanKingArt thank you for the tutorials!

[@solortus]

I never knew baking in blender has so many steps

[@shadowLurker4v]

Awesome! Learned some really good tips just before my own baking! Would love to also see a video about baking high res model to low res, maybe with some height data?

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for the video idea! I'd like to make a tutorial on that sometime.

[@shadowLurker4v]

@@RyanKingArt That would be amazing! Looking forward to more of your video regardless, they helped me a lot with my work!

[@jishuguchhait1530]

20:39 my Roughness map was just the slider in principled bsdf (for which rgb slider was used), but it wasn't showing up the actual color required, so instead of roughness bake type, emit bake type did the job.

[@khalidabdulhamid3567]

Thankyou Ryan, I really helped with your tutorial!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it helped!

[@raffmusicgaming3687]

Thank you very much Ryan you are worth more than gold! cheers!🍻

[@RyanKingArt]

glad my videos can help!

[@3dlly237]

love ur videos man

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like them!

[@Sekolapedia]

thankyou sir. im looking for your explainer everywhere!

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching!

[@simbolimbo1702]

Thank you very much my friend. You are really great teacher.

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you! 😃

[@ElveraViljoen]

Thank you!

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@phamthohongduong]

very useful and packed full of info video !

[@RyanKingArt]

glad it was helpful! thanks for watching.

[@martyfouts771]

Working through this in 3.3 and discovered that the viewer node no long seems to exist. The function seems to be implemented in the material node now. However if you attach the metallic color ramp directly to the material node (via CTRL-SHIFT-LMB) it bakes metallic OK. Also, when baking metallic the metallic setting in the Principled shader no longer seems to matter.

[@RyanKingArt]

Yes, the viewer node is no longer in the latest Blender version, but everything still works the same.

[@TC3Dgraphicdesign]

@@RyanKingArt How do we get metallic bake if there is no viewer? With Emit?

[@minotaursgamezone]

AAAAARGH MAKING UVS MESSES UP MY EDGE WEAR AND DIRT

[@redbrightfull]

Another awesome tutorial, I am loving it! Thank you very much RyanKingArt! I am using Blender 4.3.2 and I know the viewer node is in this version, but when I click on a node and then click CTRL + Shift + LMB a wire goes from the node to the material output, but there is no "Viewer" node that comes up. I have looked up the blender manual. I don't know why I can't get the "Viewer" node to appear. And I do have the Node Wrangler add on enabled too.

[@redbrightfull]

My workaround is I just to get an Emission Node and hook it up from the color ramp to the material output

[@manunavoni7666]

You're a genius!

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@Justin_Black]

Very helpful, thanks.

[@RyanKingArt]

you're welcome!

[@jasonwilliams8730]

Thank you

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@mercurysmith563]

I trained countless people on CAD/CAM systems and can say from experience that you do an excellent job of getting information across. Let me ask a couple quick questions, I am working strictly in Blender so sending textures to other programs is not an issue, on the other hand, I will be using EEVEE a lot for animation purposes and will be needing some textures baked for appearance I can't get straight out of EEVEE. So my question is, in a procedural texture, what are some signs I'm hitting a breaking point in performance when baking would be the way to go? Is it the number of nodes, the type of nodes? In Blender Studio's tutorials there are some monster node trees being created for relatively simple result. I know the tutorials are for training and not necessarily general use but, just going through some of them you can't help but think a processor has got to drag when you have 50, 100, or more nodes building up. If I'm going to animate with EEVEE, would I want to go all baking or keep simpler procedural trees in the character/object?

[@artisandejure8168]

What a helpful tutorial. So concise and methodical. How do we bake Transmission? Everything I try when exported to glb, does not look transparent (glass) in the object previewer outside of blender. Thanks!

[@RyanKingArt]

Maybe I can make a tutorial sometime on baking transparency. Although I think it would just b a black and white map of where the object is transparent.

[@chx99]

Amazing tutorials. Thank you so much!!

[@RyanKingArt]

You're very welcome!

[@mesarena5408]

Awesome tut as always Ryan 👌...thanks alot

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching!

[@poly_flo]

fire 🔥

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@alexalexeich7329]

easy to understand, thank you!

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching!

[@jishuguchhait1530]

19:42 In case of blender 4.2, I had to add Diffuse bsdf node (instead of the base color node in principled bsdf) to make it work, else a black image was getting baked.

[@IncenKong]

Thanks good video. I had a... uhm... a lil bit "complex" Procedural Material that i cant render normaly because Blender just crashed everytime i tryed it xD So the "and it didnt take very long" take a whole 12min for a 4k Image xD And i dont have a crappy pc, so thanks, it helped me a lot!

[@MixieMew]

Life saving Tut

[@RyanKingArt]

glad it helped!

[@neltran15]

Great Tutorial! Although I am kind of confused: I modelled a sword with the metal being fine, but the handle has a leather texture, and for some reason the same procedure (except setting the rgb to black for the metallic, since leather isnt metal) it won't work when I put the baked textures together. Can you enlighten me why that is and how to bypass that problem?

[@S9universe]

very detailed and easy

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad its helpful!

[@Unknown-xx4ki]

Great vid as always ryan! Also, a video idea is make an armature tutorial like on the armature modifiers and instances, and how it works, etc. That would help me a lot cause im trying to learn it

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for the video idea!

[@FreeOnlineSkills]

Your channel is awesome specially the beginners tutorials ,thanks so much!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad my videos are helpful! 👍‍

[@selinyigit8429]

very helpful for my final thanks

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching!

[@Beam4458]

if i use my material in other blender project i need to baking it again?

[@jamesburke5016]

I didn’t know I could reuse the same image texture for different maps.

[@undefeated2555]

Thank you for the tutorial it is really good. But for some reason with the result texture whenever I zoom in the pixels are super blurry?

[@ANUBASS]

legend good informative tut as always! quick question at 8 mins when you are covering the UV islands and scaling them I've heard from other guides that you aren't supposed to individually scale UV's islands and should scale them together? is it okay in this situation because its just a texture and not something with complicated UV's and different colors like a human or vehicle model? or was the information about not scaling UV's individually incorrect?

[@rlhugh]

Can we simply bake the texture as a square, similar to how the textures are in polyhaven?

[@nlotus1711]

Very usefull! thanks so much

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@FireGod___]

thanks bro!

[@RyanKingArt]

welcome!

[@raoulette]

cool tutos

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@jeremygorski7437]

did you choose rgb instead of bw on purpose when saving the metallic texture? Because the texture is purely grayscale and bw takes up less storage than rgb, so I would have thought that it is the better option

[@ato7951]

hey ryan, i have a quesion. 10:22 in the new blender version theres max samples and min samples, not just one samples tab, what do i write in in my situation? thanks in advance!

[@global7487]

Hello, I can save the texture..but the texture quality is degraded, it appears as rectangular pixels..how can I save it without losing its quality?

[@danielakachi3666]

Awesome tutorial, if you have multiple viewer nodes with emission, how does blender know which one to bake?

[@MewMewMeadows]

I used this advice to bake a procedural glitter texture. Thanks a bunch. Also, is it possible bake the same material used by two separate objects? (i.e.: procedural hair material onto hair mesh and eyebrows)

[@mberg1215]

6:02 when I do the "smart UV unwrap" it not only changes the UV in the current image (the black image created just for that) but it also messes with the "real" UV of the source image used as a texture on the mesh. I can see it because just when I do "smart UV unwrap" the texture gets all messed up in the layout viewport.

[@3tannenbaum723]

Thank you so much!!!!!

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@bloxgoblin7784]

So close to being verified

[@RyanKingArt]

verified? what do you mean?

[@bloxgoblin7784]

@@RyanKingArt where you have the check mark next to your name

[@RyanKingArt]

@@bloxgoblin7784 Oh yes! that's when I reach 100K right? I should reach that by this December. 👍‍

[@babytiny5807]

I just simply want to bake the checker texture I added to a standard plane into a png image, how can I do that? I am certain I don't need to watch the entire video, and it's getting a bit complicated for what I want to do. At this point I may as well make my own in gimp, but I thought I'd learn a bit more of blender Any quick tips?

[@DavidBichoHasBeard]

You are very, very good at explaining the work flow. One question though. How come there isn't an automized function for this very straight forward procedure in Blender? I mean, in 9 out of 10 situations, every step should be quite the same? Imagine if you have a more complex object with tons of materials? This manual method cannot be the only way to do it? Or, perhaps, I have missed some important info in your tutorial since I (just realized) missed half of your tutorial since I was linked directly to the 11-minute mark by google... Then I apologize :). If not - an automation of this should take a Blender Developer a day or two to implement? So, why not? Kinda obvious functionality?

[@DavidBichoHasBeard]

(and Now, I'm gonna watch your tutorial from start :) )

[@DEBORAHTANDURELLA]

HI! thank for your tutorial. I have a problem with a mirror object, created with the shader Glossy BSDF, is there a way to bake this type of texture?

[@shura8817]

Is it possible to bake a displacement map?

[@RyanKingArt]

Yes, I have a tutorial on how to do that. check it out in my texture baking tutorial playlist.

[@shura8817]

@@RyanKingArt cool thanks Ryan, and thanks for all the useful tutorials 😊

[@ryanstevenson5478]

Thanks for the tutorial! Looking forward rendering things in Eevee that I used to need Cycles for (like anything with pointiness/bevel masks). I had one question though. At 13:18 you talk about baking a metallic map if you're just using a single value instead of a texture. If I have an object that's uniformly 100% metallic, I bake an all white image. If it's uniformly 0% metallic, I bake an all black image. So... Why bake them? If I bake my color/roughness/normal maps and hook them up to a new material, couldn't I just set the metallic value to 1 or 0 in the new Principled BSDF?

[@RyanKingArt]

Yes, you could totally do that, but I think maybe some game engines and other programs might actually need a metallic map. Don't know for sure, but if you wanted to bake a metallic map, that's how its done.

[@ryanstevenson5478]

@@RyanKingArt Thanks again! I wasn't thinking about other software, that makes more sense.

[@theaccout4458]

Good

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks!

[@lucabrandovardi2524]

Amazing tutorial as usual, thanks a lot for this!! I do have a question, I somehow keep on getting a very low res texture once baked even with original texture being 8k and having everything properly set up from samples to image size. I know how I described my problem might be a bit vague but, is there's something I should double check? Thanks in advance

[@RyanKingArt]

Check to make sure you have a good UV Map, and use as much of the texture space as you can with the UV map, so it can use more pixels.

[@lucabrandovardi2524]

​@@RyanKingArt wow thank you for the very speedy answer! I really appreciate it. I think that might be the case, I'm working on a piece of 3D calligraphy using one long curve (than converted into mesh) that I will have to prep for AR use. I managed to UV unwrap it nicely but the map comes out quite long vertically but not so much horizontally, not covering the entirety of texture space. Is there something I could do there? Again sorry for describing everything vaguely, I think at this point is clear that I'm a beginner haha and thanks once more for your quick help!

[@MikeMike-wc8on]

Nice )) but as for the baking... where it ever starts?

[@light2937]

Why the backed texture and the procedural texture use the same amount of memory usage? I thought baking make things faster???

[@solidvault3698]

Great tutorial! how do you bake textures with their alphas?

[@RyanKingArt]

maybe I can make a video on that.

[@abu-bøqr]

Can you texture bake downloaded materials? Im trying to do this and its not working, I followed your videos but I dont get the results I want. I have 2 downloaded materials on one object.

[@RyanKingArt]

Yes you should be able to texture bake materials that are using image textures, just like any other texture baking.

[@cqrhqr3418]

Exclent videoo

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it. thanks for watching!

[@yahyagholampoor8776]

Hi tnk u for tut...i have problem in bake...seams line is visible in my texture i dont know why its happen..please help me

[@Hashimo]

Could you cover "Selected To Active"? Since they added the second checkbox I can hardly manage to bake extra details to my mesh..

[@RyanKingArt]

yeah I'd like to do a video on that sometime. thanks!

[@Linev-sz8xr]

Hey, when I'm trying to bake the color map or something it says No active image found, add a material or bake to an external file , i don't know what i'm doing wrong

[@mayansstudios]

Thankyou sir

[@RyanKingArt]

thank you for watching!

[@cryotimber]

My UI in Blender looks nothing like this. How do I get these menus?

[@kodurishiva]

can we sell the model after backing texture if yes how to export and which formart

[@kuichib]

Thanks for the thorough tutorial :) My baking time is horrendous still :( What is the wizardry in apps like Substance, Marmoset and Quixel Mixer where the baking is as quick as saving out the files.

[@RyanKingArt]

Not sure, I haven't used those programs before.

[@bellousow2607]

Can you please make a tutorial baking with Cycle using an archiviz scène