@@Markom3D this could be concidered "moving our problem somewhere else" because after doing this in a few detailed scenes . . you're going to end up with a large ammount of image textures
Posting this here in case it's helpful to anyone-- the tutorial worked great, and I boiled it down into a very abbreviated list so I can replicate the steps easily! (I do love the little mini-explanations in the video, now I pretty much understand what the steps are doing; the list just helps me not skip any steps as I repeat the process). Thank you Markom3D! -duplicate in place -hide original -working with duplicate.... -little green triangle tab: Normals > uncheck Auto Smooth >Remesh: Voxel: 0.1m; [x] fix poles, [x] volume, click Voxel Remesh Modifiers -Add Multiresolution, leave as is -Shrink Wrap: Wrap method: project; target: the original model; [x] negative [x] positive Back up to Multires: hit Subdivide 3 times Apply Shrinkwrap modifier Back up to Multires: bring viewport to 0 Shade Smooth the model. Shading taaab: Copy material (the lil copy icon next to the mat name) -Delete base image texture. Make a new one. Name it Subject_D ("diffuse"), 2048px. -Duplicate this texture. Color -> (new) Normal Map's Color node -> Normal. -Delete the _D texture, make a new one that is Subject_N (normal); 2048; Uncheck Alpha, check 32-bit float. -Looking at main viewport, tab into edit mode, UV > Smart Project, Island margin 0.010, OK. -Turn original mesh back on, Shade Smooth. -Little green triangle > Normals, uncheck Auto Smooth. -Hide original one -Select Subject_N in the materials nodes Tab on right: Render settings (little DSLR camera). Render engine: Cycles. Sampling > Render: set to 10. Performance > Tiles > 512px. Bake > [x] Bake from Multires; Normals from dropdown. Ensure Subject_N is selected, then click Bake. -Unhide original. Select it first, then shift + LMB to select the second model, then select Subject_D from material nodes, go back to Render settings > Bake, uncheck [] bake from multires, select Diffuse from dropdown, uncheck Direct and Indirect; only [x] Color. [x] Selected to Active; > Extrusion: 0.1m. Bake.
These are may favorite type of your tuts. Very detailed and clear step by step on a complicated topic. I can always count on yours when I hit those kind of problems, "how the heck do I lower the polycount on this model I just downloaded...?" 8 min later, boom. Thanks. Oh and magenta is not an error just the Blender warning color to say that there is no shader data. Just like when model goes pink in texture paint before you start adding channels, or why the world goes pink when you swap HDRs.
Very well structured and cleanly delivered tutorial, thanks for that! As has been said the pink colour isn’t a mistake, it’s long established in game dev lore - especially in its hex value (FF00FF). It used to be used to denote an alpha mask on pixel art sprite sheets back in the day.
@@Markom3D Hi just amazing ! many thanks for this tips, it will help me, i have just a question, my original texture on highpoly is alpha with transparent zone in image... when i bake on lowpoly it work but not with alpha, it bake on black, I checked "alpha" when I generate my blank texture in my image texture node on my low poly before baking, I don't know what I forgot to do, can you give me the solution ? I would be grateful, thanks in advance. (sorry for my poor english, i'm french)
Proof that proper explanations make things 100x easier. Dude I have watched like 10 videos on how to do this in blender and gave up. Today this got recommended to me and I think I finally understand how to actually go about this. Thank you so much!
Thanks a lot this tutorial helped a lot, when i first ever saw this was one year ago when i just started blender i was curious why is there baking bread in blender and i clicked it and didn't understand a thing and got that feeling of being dumb but now here am one year later with a lot more experience and i understood everything and most of all i finally know that you weren't baking a bread
That pause...... subscribe? Me... ha! yes... Would like to say how straight to the point this was, easy to follow, no fluff. Thanks. Looking forward to going through all your vids.
This is something I've been wondering how to do for a long time. Through another video I finally learned which were the right keywords to use to search for the technique and your video taught me how to do it with Blender. Thank you!
I have used Blender since 2007, and in that time reduced polys and baked maps hundreds of times on many dozens of objects... and I *still* learned a couple new tricks from this tutorial! Great work, splendid video. Tell Frank he has my subscription. Mom says "Hi!"
dude this was awesome! as a beginner I find learning from videos more helpful than trying to read or figure it out alone. this was exactly what i wanted to know how to do. thank you!
Thanks for great walkthrough. Wanted to add, that it is important to apply all transformations before UV unwrapping ("Ctrl+A" > "All Transforms"), otherwise baked textures are going to be unusable. Took me some time to figure this out
Thank you very much! I accidentally clicked on the tutorial because I wanted to check my headphones xd but I was struggling with it all evening and here the solution came to me by itself!
Very helpful tutorial. Don't forget to remove the MultiRes modifier (!) after baking the textures and saving them. With 3x subdivisions this will create unworkable lag, especially if you are multiplying the model with something like an array function, e.g.; not to mention it seems to increase render times as well. It took working through this workflow three times to figure out why my new lower poly models were lagging more than the super high poly ones.
Thanks for that. Would have loved a little more detail on why you did things the way you did so I can better understand how to adapt things to my own projects.
hahha...it all worked...he pauses and says, 'subscribe?' Cracked me up. There is a 'baking bread' joke somewhere in this tutorial. I've done this a few times, and I always forget the steps. Saving this vid to pull it up when I need it. I didn't realize the voxel remesh works that well. Nice!
@@Markom3D Hahha. It's really handy now, seeing as how many photogram assets are being pushed out daily. Side note: I use UE5 also, it's crazy that poly count doesn't even matter in that space anymore--nanite is a dream.
I just watched a video before yours that summarized manual re-topology. I'm going to have to watch this over a number of times so I can note the tools and the order of modifiers.
THANK YOU! I bought a tutorial on photogrammetry which is nice but the texture baking part just wasn't too well explained. I also went through a 1.5 hour tutorial online and again the texture baking part was somewhat glossed over. Granted I had to do the remesh through a modifier to make it work but following your tutorial worked and it was WAY shorter than anything else I've seen on this topic!!! Also as stated by someone else already Baking - Bread NICE! Thank you!
That’s one of the main reasons why I started this channel, short, sharp and straight to the point. That you for the feedback, and let me know if there is anything else that I can help with.
@@Markom3D Actually yes there is something. I've got an ongoing problem with smoothing being gone when importing to UE. If you could do an addition to this and cover how to get this from Blender into UE5 without loosing the smoothing groups it would help a lot. Thank you!!!
U are insanely good ☺️. I spent 45 minutes on my photoscan model and 5 minutes later 🤬 TH-cam suggest your video. I saw your video. My remesh technic is good in Maya BUT but blender is AWWWSOME.
Jajaja. This is the high poly, this is the low polo...(dramatic pause), subscribe... and yes i was convinced. So i subscribed because i am gonna use this method to low poly an octopus.
This is an interesting way to reduce poly count. What I like to do, is use the Decimate modifier. It has 3 different types. Planar does a wonderful job, but it's not always the best option. It's good on simple shapes. Unsubdivide is not an option I use; rather, I never found a use for it. I like to use collapse on complex or organic meshes. Sometimes you'll want to add a Triangulate modifier after Decimate; if you are exporting to another format.
What is up with blender tutorial makers being very good looking like God damn Great tutorial also thank you, very concise and easy to follow for something I've been trying to figure out how to do for years
I loved it I will definitely look into this a bit, also loved the comedy it was great! And thank you for asking at the end for a subscribe not at the start lol;D
This was very helpful. Love the focus and succinctness. I would have liked a little more explanation of *why* you did the various things that you did. But that might just be me being a noob.
I like the idea of someone completely new to modeling seeing the thumbnail and thinking baking has to do with bread.
bahahahhahaa I didnt even think about this
I usually bake this way, I'm still removing the 100k tris from the oven
@@Markom3D this could be concidered "moving our problem somewhere else"
because
after doing this in a few detailed scenes . . you're going to end up with a large ammount of image textures
I feel like I've been called out
i thought it was a desert rock lmfao
"How to bake bread in blender"
I cracked up the way you looked into the camera and after a dramatic pause said, "subscribe?". It was like a comedian doing a mic-drop. Well done!
lol, I need to start doing this again
Took me a second to remember my extension skips all that crap.
As I'm dropping a like during that moment he politely asks😂😂🙏 Thank you! Gonna try this out
First time I've felt like I actually understand the bake system.
I finally understand how to bake textures. Thanks a lot bro.
Zing, I see what you did there.
Same
Posting this here in case it's helpful to anyone-- the tutorial worked great, and I boiled it down into a very abbreviated list so I can replicate the steps easily! (I do love the little mini-explanations in the video, now I pretty much understand what the steps are doing; the list just helps me not skip any steps as I repeat the process). Thank you Markom3D!
-duplicate in place
-hide original
-working with duplicate....
-little green triangle tab: Normals > uncheck Auto Smooth
>Remesh: Voxel: 0.1m; [x] fix poles, [x] volume, click Voxel Remesh
Modifiers
-Add Multiresolution, leave as is
-Shrink Wrap:
Wrap method: project; target: the original model; [x] negative [x] positive
Back up to Multires: hit Subdivide 3 times
Apply Shrinkwrap modifier
Back up to Multires: bring viewport to 0
Shade Smooth the model.
Shading taaab:
Copy material (the lil copy icon next to the mat name)
-Delete base image texture. Make a new one. Name it Subject_D ("diffuse"), 2048px.
-Duplicate this texture. Color -> (new) Normal Map's Color node -> Normal.
-Delete the _D texture, make a new one that is Subject_N (normal); 2048; Uncheck Alpha, check 32-bit float.
-Looking at main viewport, tab into edit mode, UV > Smart Project, Island margin 0.010, OK.
-Turn original mesh back on, Shade Smooth.
-Little green triangle > Normals, uncheck Auto Smooth.
-Hide original one
-Select Subject_N in the materials nodes
Tab on right: Render settings (little DSLR camera). Render engine: Cycles. Sampling > Render: set to 10. Performance > Tiles > 512px.
Bake > [x] Bake from Multires; Normals from dropdown.
Ensure Subject_N is selected, then click Bake.
-Unhide original. Select it first, then shift + LMB to select the second model, then select Subject_D from material nodes, go back to Render settings > Bake, uncheck [] bake from multires, select Diffuse from dropdown, uncheck Direct and Indirect; only [x] Color. [x] Selected to Active; > Extrusion: 0.1m. Bake.
This is very helpful, thank you!
OMG I was stuck in the baking process for 1 YEAR and this is the FIRST time it worked!! You just got a new subscriber THANK YOU!
These are may favorite type of your tuts. Very detailed and clear step by step on a complicated topic. I can always count on yours when I hit those kind of problems, "how the heck do I lower the polycount on this model I just downloaded...?" 8 min later, boom. Thanks. Oh and magenta is not an error just the Blender warning color to say that there is no shader data. Just like when model goes pink in texture paint before you start adding channels, or why the world goes pink when you swap HDRs.
I used to do it a different way, but this method just seems to work better
Very well structured and cleanly delivered tutorial, thanks for that! As has been said the pink colour isn’t a mistake, it’s long established in game dev lore - especially in its hex value (FF00FF). It used to be used to denote an alpha mask on pixel art sprite sheets back in the day.
@@Markom3D Hi just amazing ! many thanks for this tips, it will help me, i have just a question, my original texture on highpoly is alpha with transparent zone in image... when i bake on lowpoly it work but not with alpha, it bake on black, I checked "alpha" when I generate my blank texture in my image texture node on my low poly before baking, I don't know what I forgot to do, can you give me the solution ? I would be grateful, thanks in advance. (sorry for my poor english, i'm french)
the clearest explanation of baking textures , thank you
I never understand WTH is happening in the background of blender, but I can follow instructions. On point!
sick, glad I was able to help you then.
So Glad to find an Aussie doing Blender Tut's. Thanks Heaps Mate..
Proof that proper explanations make things 100x easier.
Dude I have watched like 10 videos on how to do this in blender and gave up.
Today this got recommended to me and I think I finally understand how to actually go about this. Thank you so much!
Thanks a lot this tutorial helped a lot, when i first ever saw this was one year ago when i just started blender i was curious why is there baking bread in blender and i clicked it and didn't understand a thing and got that feeling of being dumb but now here am one year later with a lot more experience and i understood everything and most of all i finally know that you weren't baking a bread
lol, brilliant
That pause...... subscribe? Me... ha! yes... Would like to say how straight to the point this was, easy to follow, no fluff. Thanks. Looking forward to going through all your vids.
sweet, thank you, welcome to the channel
This is something I've been wondering how to do for a long time. Through another video I finally learned which were the right keywords to use to search for the technique and your video taught me how to do it with Blender.
Thank you!
I have used Blender since 2007, and in that time reduced polys and baked maps hundreds of times on many dozens of objects... and I *still* learned a couple new tricks from this tutorial! Great work, splendid video. Tell Frank he has my subscription.
Mom says "Hi!"
I'm struggling with blender, but tutorials like this really help by showing not only the how but the why of the stages of modelling. Thank you!
i dont think there was any explanation of why its done that way. what are you on about?
@@Jacob-qx4bc npc comments
Made me chuckle IRL (almost a "lol" even) at the end there -- super clear, informative, and direct. A well-blended and baked piece of bread, ser!
dude this was awesome! as a beginner I find learning from videos more helpful than trying to read or figure it out alone. this was exactly what i wanted to know how to do. thank you!
Thanks for great walkthrough. Wanted to add, that it is important to apply all transformations before UV unwrapping ("Ctrl+A" > "All Transforms"), otherwise baked textures are going to be unusable. Took me some time to figure this out
Vid was 3 years ago, and it made me smile because it still works!!! You made my day, thank you!! 😊
these are the exact type of tutorials I wish everyone made! Tons of good info for an 8 minutes video
Hey,i'm a brazillian 3d student and really like ur channel.
awesome mate, great to hear that. Thank you
Thank you very much! I accidentally clicked on the tutorial because I wanted to check my headphones xd but I was struggling with it all evening and here the solution came to me by itself!
Very helpful tutorial. Don't forget to remove the MultiRes modifier (!) after baking the textures and saving them. With 3x subdivisions this will create unworkable lag, especially if you are multiplying the model with something like an array function, e.g.; not to mention it seems to increase render times as well. It took working through this workflow three times to figure out why my new lower poly models were lagging more than the super high poly ones.
Some realistic ass bread.
cheers mate
Very useful. Especially when memory goes south, and Blender goes further... Thanks for this :)
this is best tutorial I watched so far about making models look detailed but with lowest veretexes u can ever get, really thank you for this.
I found this VERY helpful, especially the part about remeshing my models
I love how this came up in my feed when I needed it, didn’t even need to search for it. This is a fantastic tutorial, thank you for this information!
Thanks for that. Would have loved a little more detail on why you did things the way you did so I can better understand how to adapt things to my own projects.
thank for the tip i cant believe the result, I have been looking for a way for months and you made it so simple....
I love the way you explain, you make it fancy aand dinamic . And really simple for begginers!
this is the best blender tutorial on youtube
hahha...it all worked...he pauses and says, 'subscribe?' Cracked me up. There is a 'baking bread' joke somewhere in this tutorial. I've done this a few times, and I always forget the steps. Saving this vid to pull it up when I need it. I didn't realize the voxel remesh works that well. Nice!
Lol, I made this video for me because I keep forgetting how to do it
@@Markom3D Hahha. It's really handy now, seeing as how many photogram assets are being pushed out daily. Side note: I use UE5 also, it's crazy that poly count doesn't even matter in that space anymore--nanite is a dream.
6:51 man, that was the best subscribe request ever. and yes i'm subscribed.
Good job!!! Your face at the end convinced me 😂 You have my subscription.
This is the most useful thing i have seen in my Blender journey, Thank you!
I just watched a video before yours that summarized manual re-topology. I'm going to have to watch this over a number of times so I can note the tools and the order of modifiers.
Thank you so much. Other tutorials weren't working for me but this one finally saved me
Super helpful Markom! Currently working on an AR project and this will be a great boon to my work flow!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks a lot! I always come back to this tutorial whenever I have to do this
Finally i found some good tut for bake map and at the end of video your face moment really valuable for me so i subcribed :p
This is a great tutorial! Very well done and extremely helpful!
Simple and good explained. Thank you! 🙏
this just made my day much easier , your a legend
This method is a work of art. Thank you greatly.
very useful! the diffuse baking is what I needed to understand. thank you!
good work on walking through the process and in an easy and method basis.
Exactly what I'm looking for! Thanks a lot hope you're having a good day sir
The stare and the "subscribe?🤨" 😂😂
AMAZING! I learned similar thing before but I did not know it works on Remeshed Different UV Map as well. Thank you
it's working great, awesome. Also your tutorial has an additional feature, you can bake multiple material in one material.
THANK YOU! I bought a tutorial on photogrammetry which is nice but the texture baking part just wasn't too well explained. I also went through a 1.5 hour tutorial online and again the texture baking part was somewhat glossed over. Granted I had to do the remesh through a modifier to make it work but following your tutorial worked and it was WAY shorter than anything else I've seen on this topic!!! Also as stated by someone else already Baking - Bread NICE! Thank you!
That’s one of the main reasons why I started this channel, short, sharp and straight to the point. That you for the feedback, and let me know if there is anything else that I can help with.
@@Markom3D Actually yes there is something. I've got an ongoing problem with smoothing being gone when importing to UE. If you could do an addition to this and cover how to get this from Blender into UE5 without loosing the smoothing groups it would help a lot. Thank you!!!
@@cinemyscope6630 hey did u find the solution for it?
@@ChillieGaming Yes. It’s in the modeling tools. Look for a tool called Normals and apply it.
Amazing and helpful work! 8 minutes and the issue is solved! Thank you!
U are insanely good ☺️. I spent 45 minutes on my photoscan model and 5 minutes later 🤬 TH-cam suggest your video. I saw your video. My remesh technic is good in Maya BUT but blender is AWWWSOME.
YOU SIR HAVE HELPED ME REAL TREMENDOUSLY! SUBSCRIBED! Really , thanks for the concise workflow!
6:45 pound for pound the most legendary youtube subscribe pitch of all time
Fr. Best subscribe pitch ever
i cannot describe the laugh i made when you looked at the camera after you were done LOL thank you this helped a lot
Jajaja. This is the high poly, this is the low polo...(dramatic pause), subscribe... and yes i was convinced. So i subscribed because i am gonna use this method to low poly an octopus.
Thank you for this, as a beginner, it really helps a lot
Insane piece of work! I'm impressed!
This was exactly what I was looking for. Liked and subscribed!
hahaha many years ago subscribed bro ♥ thanks for all videos ♥
Great tutorial, I'll probably be coming back to this many times :)
Excellent tutorial....very complicated, but detailed, and the results are amazing!
Thanks! 👍😃👍
This is an interesting way to reduce poly count. What I like to do, is use the Decimate modifier. It has 3 different types. Planar does a wonderful job, but it's not always the best option. It's good on simple shapes. Unsubdivide is not an option I use; rather, I never found a use for it. I like to use collapse on complex or organic meshes. Sometimes you'll want to add a Triangulate modifier after Decimate; if you are exporting to another format.
But how do you keep the textures? Like him? I use decimate also, but am still a noob having problems with textures.
@@caiooca5793 you would keep the decimated mesh, but re-bake the texture and normal map.
Excited to try this on some photogrammetry game assets I'm trying to build. Thank you.
Nicely updated flow in blender it was more complex before thanks!
This video has saved me so much trouble, thank you so much!!
Baking Bread. Time nicely invested, Thanks a lot man.
Exactly what I was looking for, you've earned this sub
Dude Thanks. Your tutorials are so detailed but fun and simple to undersatnd 👍
Oh my God, you helped me solve the problem I was having for months. Thank you!
You got me with that "subscribe" :) . Great work!
Thank you man that's an awesome tutorial I was looking for this.
well, this was the best subscribe`s tutorial ever 😁, I totally love your way of explaining complicated things 💌
Ty for showing me how to properly bake a texture :) this will help tons
Clear, concise, easy to follow, and better yet... mmm bread.
If I take a closer look, the bread with fewer polygons looks tastier, suscribed!👌
What is up with blender tutorial makers being very good looking like God damn
Great tutorial also thank you, very concise and easy to follow for something I've been trying to figure out how to do for years
i just followed you for the "subscribe?" at the end xD
Thank you this is everything I needed my dude
I wonder if i could use this to optimize on 3D scans, with the millions of vertices and messed up UVs
Subbed at 06:45 - no words needed.. nice work.
Same here. That face said it all!
I loved it I will definitely look into this a bit, also loved the comedy it was great! And thank you for asking at the end for a subscribe not at the start lol;D
Useful, functional, practical, handy, neat, convenient, helpful, applicable. THANKS!
Hey dude. Thank you so much. Finally, I found a video that explains how to make normal-map and diffuse map. I'm also subscribing.
I like a way you told about it in this tutorial
Thanks it wasn't only educational but interesting as well
Whoa, looks good, very good. I just learned something. 🚨🔥
Glad to hear it!
This was very helpful. Love the focus and succinctness. I would have liked a little more explanation of *why* you did the various things that you did. But that might just be me being a noob.
Very clear and suscribed after the mention of it. I laughed
Thank you thank you thank you. With just the two first steps og the sidebar you helped me to finally get the damn thing to decimate
first 'Tuber to actually get me to like and sub on command. congrats sir. well played.
That joke at the start actually make me laugh. great way to start a video
I'm literally subscribing right now
Honestly did dude is amazing xd you litteraly got me with that reaction and the "subscribe" xd and i did even liked the video !
That face in the end just before subscribe did what it was intended to,. haha
Found it useful. Subscribed! Thank you.
Thanks for the sub! welcome aboard
The silence part on 6:43 and than "subscrive" broke me lmao
I'm still very far from understanding how any of that worked, but I'll just follow the steps to use it on my own projects, lol. Thankyou so much! 😊
Unbelievably helpful. Thank you!