Map Settings Panel

item_map_settings

List of Maps table

The List of Maps table has the following controls:

Bake visibility
Add Button
Remove Button
Trash Button

Bake visibility

bake_visibility

If you have prepared some maps for the future and you don’t want to bake them alongside others, click the “📷 Camera” button near the map pass to toggle its “bake visibility”. You can then get back to those maps and bake them too.

Add Button

To add a new map pass to the List of Maps, click the “Add” Button on the right of the List of Maps table.

Remove Button

A map pass can be removed from the List of Maps by pressing the “Remove” Button. The active map pass in the list will be removed from the table.

Trash Bin Button

To remove all map passes from the List of Maps table, press the “🗑️ Trash Bin” Button. All maps within the list will be removed and their setting will be reset.

Particular Map Settings Panel

Each added map can have unique settings. They are divided into the following groups:

Map Pass Type
Map Output Settings
Special Map Settings

Map Pass Type

map_pass_type

Map Pass Type is a type of the map to be baked. There are 3 categories:

PBR-based maps
Default Cycles maps
Special mask maps

There are 25 map types available in total. Each map pass type bake result is different, as well as its settings. You can read and view all the information about each map pass type and map passes in the Maps Workflow.

Map Pass Type can be set by clicking the name of the map in the List of Maps table.

Note

An object in the List of Objects can have an unlimited number of maps added.

Note

You can add map passes of the same map pass type. For example, you can bake three Albedo maps, each with unique settings.

Map Output Settings

output_settings

Map Output Settings include:

File format
Resolution
Margin
Use 32bit float bit depth
Use Alpha Channel
Map Denoising
Affect by Source (apply Source to Target settings for this map pass)
Other settings that depend on the Blender version you are using

Detailed information about each map output setting can be viewed here.

Note

If you want all maps to have identical Output Settings, set up Overwrite Maps Output Settings.

Special Map Settings

special_settings

Some map passes like AO, Thickness, Displacement and others can have special settings. They can be also set inside the Map Pass Settings panel:

Use Default Special Settings
Special Settings
Real-time Map Preview

Accessing Special Settings

To toggle Special Settings customization, uncheck “Default” in the map settings panel. Below are all possible Special Settings available:

Quality-related

Samples Count

Coverage-related

Radius
Distance
Coverage

Transform

Axis
Gradient Type
Gradient Location
Gradient Rotation

Color adjustment

Edge contrast
Body contrast
Blacks
Whites
Brightness
Contrast
Opacity
Saturation
Smoothness
Power
Invert option

Other settings

Use only Local

Real-time Map Preview

map_preview

Special Maps have a toggle to preview the bake result using Blender Material Shader Nodes. The preview is only available with Cycles Render Engine enabled.

Note

Map Preview will add its custom nodes to preview the map. After toggling off the preview, all of those nodes will be removed without a single touch to the object’s initial materials.