Creating a texture Atlas in Blender 

You know I've baked several of my models several times and didn't know "clear image" could be unchecked and that blender could bake onto the same image without recombining bakes manually in image editors outside of blender. Definitely taught me a few tricks! Thanks for the video!

Excellent tutorial. Thorough and provides reasoning to steps taken as well. Wish more guides had this format. 😊

I felt like a beginner again. Beautiful tutorial!

I finally understood exactly what atlases are in Blender. Amazing tips to avoid mistakes! Thank you

words can not describe the amount of respect i have for this craft, its all so complicated

This was so helpful! Thanks for this amazing tutorial!! Keep it up

This was the easiest explanation i found, thank you!

Super nice man. 😊

Cheers for this tutorial, was exactly what I needed, in fact, better than what I thought I needed.

Incredible tutorial. thank you.

Really helped me out, well taught, thanks so much!

Amazing tutorial! Thanks!

thank you this is amazing

on god thank u so much! grant abbotts tutorial kept making all but one object in my model black!

It was helpful, thank you.

Thank you dude !

Thak you sir... it's really helps me out

Hopefully you're still monitoring this video. I'm using the a shader addon that allows for multiple texture layers on an object. Pretty sure Blender has native support for that. But, I'm curious what changes I have to make to this process for using additional uv maps on multiple objects that contain decals or the like in the process of baking an Atlas map.

Thank you very much

When I bake nothing appears on the atlas? I have everything done correctly. Edit: I realized when I bake the textures clear out space on the atlas texture, so they just make transparent holes on the black background. Unsure why though

i wish there is an auto atlas from multi material. but during export. but overall amazing tutorial

That ejection port is gonna take your right eye out with a sizzlin hot shell. God forbid you're left handed....lol

Hi! Nice work! Do you made the textures on blender or in other software? Cheers!

Hi. Thank you for explaining so well. I have a question though. Typically, I would layout UVs for objects in UDIMS and there shell sizes would be appropriately large so as to gain high resolution. While making Atlas, it shows that all the UVs for all objects leave there respective UDIMs and come under a single tile. Due to this there shell size also reduces to an extent. So in this process, will there be a reduction in the resolution of the texture image between Atlas and UDIMs??

followed exactly the same as you did but by pressing the bake button all I got just blacked islands appears on the new texture.

Man, I wish I saw this video a year ago. I take it that ALL game assets are done this way. From a house, tree, weapon, prop, vehicle, human? etc... (for optimizing purposes in game engine?) Also, I take it you have to re-apply the texture map in Unreal, right? What about alphas? Like tree leaves, would you add those also in one texture atlas? Or is it something special you need to do separately?

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When I bake, I usually lose a lot of detail. Sometimes even when I bake on a 4K res image. Could this because of poor UV layout?

Think I rather do the cats atlas plugin honestly with all the parts I have

half of my texture is baking into a pre existing texture and not in atlas one

It bake in all black aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh