Releases#

All BakeMaster Releases and Changelogs are listed on this page. Each new release comes with new features, improvements, or fixes. For clarity, each section has a tag to identify the changes.

2.5.2 Release#

Tag

2.5.2 - August 18th, 2023

Fixes:

Global presets did not include map formats (issue-41).
Full Object Preset caused blender to crash (issue-44).

New Features:

Texture upscaling by factor (issue-43).

Features.

2.5.1 Release#

Tag

2.5.1 - August 17th, 2023

Fixes:

Separate decals setting had no effect and decals were always baked onto separate images (issue-39).

Features.

2.5.0 Release#

Tag

2.5.0 - June 23rd, 2023

Fixes:

Corrected alpha mode for Channel Packs and images (CU-85zt9dgvu).
Existing nodes in Compositor are correctly restored after Denoise or Channel Pack (CU-85zt9rf2t).
Safely bake if Output Filepath is invalid (CU-85zt9p981).
Correctly set baked images’ color spaces (CU-85zt9rfjx, CU-85ztapkvm).
SSAA didn’t work and had no effect (CU-85zt9ecuy).
Ovewrite to remove previously baked images if the same names encountered (CU-85ztamht0).
Saved images to the disk had wrong indexes (CU-85ztab9u7).
Correctly set Output Render/Scene settings (CU-85ztapkyb).
Apply Lastly Edited Setting didn’t work for Decal Map (CU-85ztawmwb).
One extra bake was by mistake internally invoked when baking Texture Sets, which resulted in corrupted, unsaved image data (CU-85ztaz4vz).
Correctly set Channel Packed images’ color spaces (CU-85zt7bn79).
Match Resolution swapped height and width values (CU-85ztbhnjr).
Existing Triangulation modifiers were ignored (CU-85zt7bmyc).
Help buttons didn’t open documentation.

New Features:

View From - use active camera to capture direction of specular reflections (CU-85zt7bn1q).
JPEG Output Quality slider to the Format settings (CU-85zt9cp75).
Color Management Panel (CU-85zt7bm29).
Show Image Color Depth options and set it correctly (CU-85zt9345a)
TGA file format + TGA raw - uncompressed option (CU-85zt98v6t)
DPX file format + save in Log option (CU-85ztaqqx5).
CINEON file format (CU-85ztaqqx5).
Output Compression for TIFF file format (CU-85ztaqrdc).
Default file format and bit depth from color management is applied to new maps (CU-85ztaqtmx).
Cavity map default values to match 50% grey in neutral areas (CU-85ztau27p).
Channel Pack, Denoise, and Decal bake is now available when baking internally (CU-85ztauwtt, CU-85ztapkqf).
Add Time elapsed and bake time of each map to Progress Report messages (CU-85ztauwzf).
Bake with scene color management applied - Apply Scene (CU-85zt9rew9).
Apply compositor nodes to bakes - Compositor (CU-85zt9revj).
ACES color space for bakes (CU-85ztapkvm).
Bake Cancel (``BACKSPACE + ESC``) now removes already baked files (CU-85ztb8bz5).
Apply configured color management settings (Color Spaces, File Formats, Bit Depths) to existing maps with Quick Apply (CU-85ztb8q9h).
Match Resolution now also shows images from the .blend file itself that are not linked to materials (CU-85ztbhnjr).
Toggle image bit depth and see available properly in Format settings (CU-85zt933wz).
Average Islands Scale checkbox for Texture Set UV Repack (CU-85zt7bqf7).
All panels now have scroll bars (CU-85zt8wmqm).
Low Resolution Mesh checkbox for bakes from Multires (CU-85zt8xnpv).
Choose base subdivision level for bakes from Multires (CU-85zt7bqt9).

Edits:

Removed Alpha and Trans BG options for JPEG, BMP file format because they do not support it anyway (CU-85zt9d78z).
Show available map data first for Displacement, Normal maps (CU-85ztatzht).
Channel Pack, Denoise, and Decal bake now proceedes without a need for Render Result image (CU-85ztauwjz).
Map baking progress now shows not total maps count to left, but the count of maps that are actually valid for bake (CU-85ztb5pn6).

Features.

2.0.2 Release#

Tag

2.0.2 - April 28th, 2023

Fixes:

Albedo, Metallic, Roughness, and Opacity Maps weren’t baked properly from Highpoly (issue-29)
ID Maps weren’t baked if Object had NoneType Materials (dev-a1a4836)
If bake took more than a minute, “Bake completed in …” didn’t show correct time the bake took (dev-de81454)
Normal map colorspace could not be set (issue-27)
Normal Map bake with Oject/Materials data outputted raw vectors colors instead of normals (dev-717cc45)
UVMap for bake was set to be the UVMap to bake from (dev-e4aff4e)
Bake could not proceed when objects were hidden at the start (dev-07ead0b)
Normal Map bake from multires caused errors (dev-2c27a29)