Your method of creating tutorials is brilliant, a solid reinforcement learning experience by covering the catch alls whilst not taking away from the core subject matter. Cheers.
After smart uv project, my arrangement of the textures are changing for the object. But it's not happening in your case. Can you please help me with this issue?
I found a Grant Abbitt tutorial that helped with this exact thing!! Follow that and then come back to this tutorial: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9airvjDaVh4.html
I think you underestimate the value of your teaching ability. So many sub par or hard to follow educators online and here you are, one of the most clear and concise speakers I've found, and your tutorials are all free?! Madness!
Fine, but most important part starts here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NQMtZi9j5d0.html All before is just some water people usually already know.
I love you man, all your tutorials are awesome and easy to follow. i'm trying Blender for about 25 days now and no experience in other 3d modeling software, i made everything you teached (no sculpting stuff). Thank you.
Hey Ryan really appreciate your tutorials. But if I could make one suggestion. Ctl. + Shift + LMB Click no longer launches a viewer node in the shading editor. You use this technique allot for metallic, displacement etc. Could you maybe address this at least in future tutorials if not in the old ones. As a newbie it took me awhile to understand that I could just use an Emission node. Again really appreciate your tutorials.
Hey Ryan, this is a great video! I have some issues with baking my diffuse map however. Whenever I bake, it only bakes 2 objects and it stops baking halfway. There's no progress bar and it says the map as been saved externally. I'm not sure why this happens because I have selected all objects and made sure the image texture is highlighted in all material tab.
Hello, 3D object background:. We used 836 hi res still images in meshroom to create a high poly 3D room, meshroom produced 12 texture files. We import model in to Blender 3.6.0,, at video time 6:15, we use 1001 as first texture, we create image texture node. At video time 8:12, we select smart UV projection we use ADD option, we tried all 3 (scalar and fraction), in 3.6 we cannot select 0.0005, we leave it at 0.001.Then when we view the UV editor (video 8:51)OUR UV map shows overlap in various places, most likely due to meshroom output, in your UV unwrap tutorial, we would need to do a manual fix for 20+ hours to fix islands in UV overlaps, is there another way to edit out overlaps? we also see you have motion blur selected, we DO NOT select it. Help with this is appreciated. Thanks much!
TIP: When you have to "Turn off" the metallic value (or any value) and plug it into the Emission slot, you could just have a Value node plugged into the metallic. If the metallic reads "0.500", then you just type in .5 into the Value node and plug it into the emission.
20:38 at some point after this video releases, they got rid of the viewer node and replaced it with the emission node. hopefully this saves somebody the 20 minutes of button mashing and frustration :)
@@RyanKingArt thank you for this tutorial BTW. i am not a good artist so texturing has been a huge road block for me as my preferred workflow is making game assets for game mods like blade and sorcery. I cant wait to start making new swords and stuff now that i can actually make usable textures for them :D
Did they change the Metallic Baking again ?, before the update I was baking metallic perfectly using node wrangler and emission etc.... the way you show in this video, minus the viewer node as they got rid of that, but now after the recent update, after baking the metallic.....it doesn't seen to make it shine, it just looks like I am using the roughness and colour with no metallic properties....the maps are all connected correctly to the BSDF, it show metallic is there, but still no shine ??? please help
thank you so much for your helpful tutorials! I couldn't understand why my donut looked the way it did why i tried to export it to sketchfab. Now i have a question, ive been making a pumpkin (also used parts of your pumpkin tutorial) but ive made fog with the shading tab that moves along the ground with keyframes. I wonder how i can export the fog correctly?
Slight issue, I'm trying to smart project the UV but it unwraps all of the other textures and causes the models textures to all go off. Am I missing a step?
Hello, what about baking glass material? And I also wanted to ask how to bake normal map to low poly mesh from high poly one, that already have some normal maps (mainly for scratches).
Another excellent tutorial Ryan. Very helpful. One thing that comes across is the confidence and clarity of your knowledge and underlying systematic approach.
Thanks Ryan, another great tutorial. One quick question if I may? Would the baking procedure be the same if your materials contained multiple BSDF's / Shaders i.e. Say if you were baking your Procedural Moss Material?
Thank you for your Super Thanks! Yes, this same method will work when using a Mix Shader, mixing two shaders together. However, this becomes a bit more complex when both of the shaders are using different metallic values. It works fine when baking the Normal, Roughness, and Color, but because you have to use the Node wrangler to preview map. Also, another easy work around, would be to use a Baking Blender addon, Like Quick Baker. I have an affiliate link and a tutorial on how to use the Quick Baker addon. And that addon will basically do all of this for you. Hope this helps!
saving normal maps in jpg (which is always an 8-bit image) is a bad idea, there is a reason programs like Substance or Marmoset export them as 16-bit png good tutorial otherwise, if a bit too wordy
Great video, but why didn't the smart UV unwrap at 8:38 mess up the textures on your model? My understanding of UVs is that the UV applies to all the materials/textures, so moving them around should cause problems. (It certainly did on my model.)
A great video. This video took about 30 minutes to bake the textures for this one wheel. Blender or someone needs to make this a one click process because it just a lot of busy work.
Well I can bake textures a lot faster when I'm not filming a tutorial, but I was going very slowly and explaining everything. If I were just working on my own, it would be much faster. But there are actually some Blender addons for faster baking.
If anyone is still getting any black material issues even after unplugging metallic value - unplug the displasevent value as well! Probably displasement gives some troubles while baking for some reasons
Hi, thanks for great video, you are REALLY giving me insights into textures. I tried something else for the bolts that seems to work well. Instead of the RGB node, I just set up the emmission color to pure white and made sure emission strength is 100%. Of course if you have some materials with emission already set, one would need to turn those off. So RGB is better, but sometimes the emmission could be quicker if appropriate.
Followed everything step by step but after exporting my model to FBX it still has that default blank material despite it having only one material that has baked image texture plugged into Principled BSDF :c
17:18 "make sure you press the button with the right finger otherwise a whole city's gonna explode" yeah CG is fun :') Or I guess Blender specifically. There are so many tiny little details that if you don't know about\forget\miss nothing is going to work ಥ_ಥ
After watching your last video about baking texture of greenish dragon... I was waiting for this video which involves multiple texture.... I just have 1 query now
Hey Ryan, thanks for a great Tutorial again! 1 thing that you can do for the metallic bake is to use the emission slider in the princ bsdf, instead of using the viewer node + rgb node, as the updated node wrangler addon-on doesn't have the viewer node any more.
great video :) . I got a question, if the viewer is actually an emission, can we just use the actual emission and plug the values or texture? since its the emit that will be baked? or it will give a different outcome?
@@RyanKingArt Thanks for a hint. I've read about it on gumroad, it sounds great. Would it be useful to make a video about comparison of several baking addons with their cons and pros?
Sometimes my textures are coming out really blurry and low quality even though I am using 4k measurements you explained. :( not sure the reason for this.
@@RyanKingArt thank you for your help, I figured out that my quads were not clean enough to fill the texture space very well. I had a lot of really long skinny rectangles and those just do not work too well with texture baking.
Hey Ryan! Big fan! Quick question. I have a high poly model made of lots of different intricate parts with different materials and i have retopologized all the parts. So what is the best workflow for turning this all into a single game object with a single diffuse map? (focusing specifically on just making the color map work rn and will work on the other maps after i tackle this obstacle). Long Live The King edit: i figured it out i have to bake each high poly piece individually to the corresponding low poly piece but all on to the same texture map.
Thanks for watching! Isn't that what I cover in this video? Did this video help you to do what your trying to do? You can also check out my video called: Bake Multiple Materials to One Texture Map (Blender Tutorial)
I was having off and on issues with textures baking black. I searched around and no one seemed to talk about problems like that at all. I checked this video out on a whim and BAM, you provided the solution without even addressing it as a problem. I'll be sure to switch off those troublesome Metallic values next time!
Excellent tutorial. Do you recommend learning Substance or you think Blender is actually fine for texturing ? It feels like it lacks many features (printing text on clothes for example)
I followed your procedural paster texture tutorial and I have 2 different color plasters, I then followed this tutorial so I can use it in unreal, but for some reason my texture came out super pixalated. Why's that?
Excellent Tutorial, as always! Quick question though: I have some emission textures on my model, is that baking process similar to that of the metallics bake?
@@RyanKingArt Ok, thanks. For some reason, when baking non-procedural textures, my assets loose their quality. Just like in your video, I am trying to texture bake for an object with multiple materials. In the past, when baking an object with multiple materials to a single uv map, the entire object would have a reduced resolution after hooking up the baked textures. I'm not sure how to fix this.
Hey great tutorial really helpful but I wanted to ask something. I have multiple objects with different materials and when I join them together the materials are changing. Any idea why?
@@dht2 I had this exact same problem! Follow Grant Abbitt's tutorial for fixing the UV's and then come back here for the texture baking process: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9airvjDaVh4.html
@@RyanKingArt I've just watched that video. So just to confirm, if I have a rover like yours that has emissive lights at some places, in addition to the 4 maps you've done here, I would also need to bake an emissive map, then plug it in the Principle BSDF. Is this right?
