Hi there! This addon is awesome! I spent a few hours today seeing if I could update it to work in 2.80, and I got fairly far. I thought I would just PR it and see what your thoughts were.
The biggest difficulty seems to be in the actual baking, since a lot of the functionality in the original addon depends on Blender's internal render engine, which has been significantly deprecated in 2.80.
Specifically, I ran into trouble with the addon's usage of a material's texture_slots in the bakeWithBlender function. I played around with adjusting the function, but ultimately I fear the paradigm has fundamentally changed, and programmatic access to the material is really only possible via the Nodes APIs. Instead of tearing apart the op_BAKING_bake.py file I decided to just hook in a new file that I called op_BAKING_bake_nodes.py. I attached a new button for this operator which I labeled "Bake textures w Nodes".
All of that work is really just an experiment to test that it would still work in 2.80. I'm in over my head a bit with the PBR-based baking, so I think I would need help porting it all over in a good state.
Hopefully this is a start, though!
PS - I work at Ubiquity6. We make display.land. You should check out some of our open positions - we're basically making a free, full version of BakeMyScan in a product with thousands of users.
Dragoy
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3 years ago
Hi there! This addon is awesome! I spent a few hours today seeing if I could update it to work in 2.80, and I got fairly far. I thought I would just PR it and see what your thoughts were.
The biggest difficulty seems to be in the actual baking, since a lot of the functionality in the original addon depends on Blender's internal render engine, which has been significantly deprecated in 2.80.
Specifically, I ran into trouble with the addon's usage of a material's texture_slots in the bakeWithBlender function. I played around with adjusting the function, but ultimately I fear the paradigm has fundamentally changed, and programmatic access to the material is really only possible via the Nodes APIs. Instead of tearing apart the
op_BAKING_bake.pyfile I decided to just hook in a new file that I calledop_BAKING_bake_nodes.py. I attached a new button for this operator which I labeled "Bake textures w Nodes".All of that work is really just an experiment to test that it would still work in 2.80. I'm in over my head a bit with the PBR-based baking, so I think I would need help porting it all over in a good state.
Hopefully this is a start, though!
PS - I work at Ubiquity6. We make display.land. You should check out some of our open positions - we're basically making a free, full version of BakeMyScan in a product with thousands of users.