Baking is the common term for saving shading/lighting on objects in a scene. You can use the Texture Baking Settings window to bake illumination, shadows, shading, and textures to a file that can later be applied to other objects. For more information, see Bake textures with Turtle.
To bake color and illumination to a texture
- Open the
Texture Baking View. (Click
in the
Shading shelf, or select (Windows > Material/Texture Baking Editors > Texture Baking View).
- Open the
Texture Baking Settings. (Click
, or select (Windows > Material/Texture Baking Editors > Texture Baking Settings).
- In the
Texture Baking Settings, set the following:
- In the Sampling tab, ensure the Min Sample Rate and Max Sample Rate values are set to at least 0, and 2 respectively.
- In the
Baking tab, specify the
Target Surfaces and
Source Surfaces, then select the map types you want in the
Outputs section.
Tip: To produce a Diffuse map, turn on the Albedo output option in the Texture Baking Settings for Turtle.
- Click
to bake.
The selected map output types are saved to disk.