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franMarz / TexTools-Blender

TexTools is a UV and Texture toolset created several years ago for Blender and Max by @renderhjs. In this open repository, originally created by @SavMartin, we develop the current version of this popular Blender add-on.
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[Feature Request] Add the ability to bake standard PBR maps. #41

Closed Igrium closed 3 years ago

Igrium commented 4 years ago

The texture baking feature of TexTools is really useful, and I find myself using it every time I do material work in Blender. I still find it annoying, though, to use Blender's native baking tools when baking down my final PBR maps, so it would be nice if Roughness and Emit (and Metalness if that's possible) were present in the list of baking modes.

feilen commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/SavMartin/TexTools-Blender/pull/43 I have roughness taken care of (well, mostly, needs a new icon) and smoothness if you're using Unity. Metallic will require Blender to support it, which is something I might try to tackle sooner or later.

SavMartin commented 4 years ago

Already included, thx to @feilen ... great work

franMarz commented 3 years ago

Maybe this could be closed then?

Ulazygit commented 3 years ago

There is still no option to bake metallic and emission maps using this plugin. I downloaded the latest release? Kind of pointless without metalness and also without emission. Shame because the plugin is much easier to use than alternative.

P.S. I think a metallic workaround could be programming a switching of metallic and roughness then baking a roughness (actually metallic)

feilen commented 3 years ago

I've actually been working on that for another plugin, it might be possible to backport them here (if licensing isn't an issue)

So far I've got metallic, alpha, emit working fine (most of the time, some rare issues in alpha)

feilen commented 3 years ago

@SavMartin any concerns about the licensing? This project is GPLv3, the project I've been spending more of my time on (cats blender plugin, specifically this PR) is MIT. It shouldn't be an issue since I wrote the other changes from scratch and I'd have to rewrite most of it to work here, but ultimately it's your decision, since yours has the less permissive license and there's bound to be one or two duplicated lines.

franMarz commented 3 years ago

Where could be any issue? You're copying two lines from a code under MIT, that's fully permissive, to GPLv3, that is also very permissive, but not even from here to MIT, so... I personally say, please, bring us that new functionality.

franMarz commented 3 years ago

Added the remaining PBR bake modes in TexTools 1.4.1, download and install the latest release: https://github.com/SavMartin/TexTools-Blender/releases/download/v1.4.1/TexTools_Blender_1_4_1.zip