How to Turn Procedural Materials into Texture Maps in 2.83
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- Create cool procedural materials in Blender and make them 2D textures to use wherever you want. Unity, Unreal, Photoshop, Affinity, anywhere.
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Great video as always!Tips and tricks galore! This video + 5 more videos for us Patreon members. Big THANK YOU!
Thanks! Yeah, I did a huge drop for your guys yesterday. Sorry if Patreon bombarded your email inbox haha!!
@@KevBinge Bombardements like this are welcome! So many things learned over the weekend thanks to your videos.
That’s great! I actually held off yesterday but I have more coming this week. It’s taken time to prep all my scenes from most of my videos but they are finally almost all done.
Did it like you said but it doesn't work, it says "Circular dependency form image [...] from object [targetToBake]", and then "Baking map saved to internal image, save it externally or pack it".
I get no image :( Just a black square staring at me denoucing my failure.
The square is mocking you
@@drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749 Lol
Same, baking in Blender is rather bothersome hmmm.
ok when i pressed bake uuhhh nothing happened, it was still black nothing pop up.
Oh my god! This is exactly how every tutorial should look. No BS around & straight to the point. + I really need to start using "because it works" explanation in my life.
Thanks! I need to stick to that more too haha!!
1:23 I don't think I've laughed this hard while watching a blender tutorial 😂😂😂
If someone asks me "what's Node Wangler?" This what I'll reply with 😂😂
Haha, thanks!!
Is there a way we can export a seamless version somehow
You have saved my heart from breaking over the complexities of exporting procedural shaders haha. Thank you kind sir!!
I’m very happy to help! Thanks!!
lost at 02:23. I selected the original mesh, and then the new one. I waited for it to bake. And blank :(((
Yes, I need to update this as Blender is changing by the day...
It didn’t work for me, uv map just shows black.
same :(
Same here
i have been searching for this video for 2 hours now i got my work done thanks for the information
hey is there a way to do this but have it so that it unwarps in 3d space based on the UV of your model so that it can be ported into unreal etc?
I got so far and my texture I made Isn't showing In the drop down I'm so upset about It since It's taked so much time for It to not work
When I hit bake and it loads nothing shows up in my UV editor
No one:
Binge: yeah do this because it works
Lol
It's crazy how many tutorials you have to look at to do something, I must be more than twenty on the question, I still haven't succeeded, block 2.20 when I click on back I get the error next
No active image found in material "SSS Skin Shader.001" (0) for object "texturetested"
So I'm going to keep looking but thank you, I never got that far.
most entertaining tutorial I've ever seen
Thanks Fred 😀
Holy fuck dude that texture looks awesome! Like IK it's just a rando texture you made for this but holy fuck that is epic!
Haha! Thanks!!
But how can I bake a normal or metallic map?
What didi i wrong when my image is all black?Did all the steps the same.
Kev: You can use it for Photoshop, edits or whatever
My laptop running the procedural texture that I just made with the CPU: Please do it, I can't hold on any longer
Lol. That legit made me laugh. Thanks 😀
Can't you just render the image using a 1:1 camera and then using passes to separate the diffuse only and save that. Won't that work?
You could do that too with an ortho camera, sure.
@@KevBinge yeah I was trying that , it worked fine , the only prob was the bump maps , basically they already have the blue purplish color , so no need for bump maps , but it doesn't the give the same look even by using a bump map
@@carbonx95.08 this is the only pleasable way to bake diplacement map using mist or depth passes
SO HARD TO FIND THIS. Everyone needs a copy in their tool kit, great tutorial.
man i was looking for a video on this for HOURS... thank you so much!
Glad I could help!
Is there a way 2 make a Map of a Planet that shows the Heights and Procedural texture of a planet?
Thanks, Kev! I'm new to Blender. I have a 3d model and have gotten a procedural texture I'm happy with. What would i need to do to translate the guidance in this video to get my procedural texture applied to the uv mapping for my model? Thank you for your expertise and your interest in teaching/helping others.
Jim, in a word, no. A good and simple way to get a procedural texture out is to just render it top down on a grid or plane. You can then take that image into an image editor and make the different maps from that.
There is an addon called “bake wrangler.” It’s a paid add-on (I have no affiliate relationship with it at all,) but lot of people really like it. It might help you out. Thanks, and have a great night!
Tried doing this like 5 times and it never worked. maybe it was my texture. i'm sad
After I bake it, the image is still blank
yup
Does anyone know why mine is loading in with no color its like grayed out, i see the sorta texture but no color
Seems like this does not work anymore? Every-time I do it, the bake takes one second and shows up with a blank see through picture.
Its a method I’ve used for a long time but there’s an add on called Bake Wrangler that makes it way easier now. Give that a shot.
@@KevBinge Thanks for the super quick response man! Ill give it a try!
You’re welcome! Good luck! I need to use it in a video, but there are many good ones. I think Markom3D did one off the top of my head...
This is confusing to keep. I have 2 separate materials I'm trying to convert into textures but all I get is a black plane with none of my shading materials
yeah same
I learned more in 3 minutes than I did in an hour. I'd sub if I weren't subbed already
That’s awesome!! Thank you!
haha such a good ass tutorial. i had to laugh a couple times. especially that one with your eyebrows melting. loool
Thanks haha!!
Hey Kev, thanks for your videos, been working through loads of them. Was pleasantly surprised to see Affinity Photo pop up at the end! (I look after the app in terms of tech things, training, demos etc). I work a lot with EXR multichannel documents from Blender (like to mix Cycles and Eevee passes). Let me know if you have any thoughts or questions!
All the best,
James
Thanks James! I LOVE Affinity! I bought Photo and Designer during the SUPER generous covid sale and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve already made back the money I’d spent on them using them haha! I’d love to see you guys release an After-Effects style layer-based alternative, but you know... one thing at a time lol!
blenderBinge you’re not the only one! A motion graphics app with the render engine would be amazing (especially with Metal compute on Mac), but we’re focusing on the core three apps for now. Publisher especially is quite young so there’s still much to come at this point. PS don’t know if you ever retouch EXR/HDR renders but I’ve created some macros that produce the Filmic looks within Photo (no OCIO dependencies or other fiddling required)-might be useful if you’ve ever struggled with that, we always have Blender users on the forums asking how to recreate Filmic transforms within Photo when using EXR/HDR formats..
Whoa! That would be cool. In time of course. You guys have your data and know how to serve your markets! We’d all love something to replace Motion, as that was really one of the only competitors that AE ever had, and it was a “relatively” distant second.
I need to jump in the forums and swim around a bit. I picked it up (Affinity) fairly recently and am very happy. I grew up with Photoshop like everyone else and used it since 1997, but you guys innovate and I support that 😀.
I’d love to check out the EXR transforms! I love working 32-bit outside of the tutorials. I’m always rendering to multilayer EXR format out of both Blender and Houdini, so having a nice filmic transform in Photo would be amazing! EXR gives you more malleability than gold. Thanks!!
Hi Kev Binge, first of all this is a realy helpfull video for every blender users so i realy appreciate it. Than i have to ask a question. You bake a texture map on planes and it works succesfully when you duplicate it under the original one. But i have to bake a texture map for my clothes and they are not basic as planes. So what i have to do? Do i have to make it smaller or bigger, or move it to bottom just like you did?
Oh actually i find out that i can use that material for a plane and then bake it like that. So if anybody have the same question like me just make it : ) and tace care yourself guys
Thanks Alph!! I’m glad you found a solution.
@@KevBinge thanks man. I just cheked your videos and they are amazing. So keep it up. And thx for replying to me ♥
Excellent. Thanks again. Question...do you have or are you planning on that new cloth sim using a brush in Blender 2.83? Looks friggin cool to do... Have a great weekend!
I may, but it’s been done many times. I might do more cloth videos though. Thanks, and you too! 😀
I should’ve known you probably have done something along those lines. I haven’t had a chance to go through your videos. But I shall. I just saw a demo I guess for the promo for blender 2.83 and that whole cloth simulation with the brush is pretty awesome. I’m sure I can probably find it out there but your tutorials are just so freaking awesome LOL. Thank you though I appreciate it.
Thanks Jimmy! I’ll probably include it in a video now 😀. Welcome to the channel and thanks for the kind words.
Seriously? Dude! Don’t go crazy on my part. I just figured at some point you might’ve messed around with that. Your channel is fantastic I thoroughly enjoy the tutorials plus you can be funny as hell which makes for a good day LOL. Thank you sir I appreciate that.
Thanks man!!
Ok, what am I missing?
Why use a second plane, and not simply bake to the UV map of the original plane?
It’s a technique I’d learned a few years ago and it works. Blender has 5 ways to do anything, so if you have a way you like better, use it 😀
Really informative one. Thanks.
You’re welcome 😀😀
Thank you for making this vid. I'm wondering if it's possible to do the same with animated procedural material?
This works well for stills but it would be a pin for animation. A good workaround would be to set an orthographic camera looking straight down in your plane, filling the camera, then add your animated procedural to that, then do a screen render animation of the texture. It’s a process that I’ll probably do a video on soon.
@@KevBinge I see that make sense. I'll try to figure it out myself while I wait for that video then. Thanks
"ctrl +t and you'll get a hookup that is better than blender".
OH MY F-
😁😁. I was reading an article about it before I made the video, thought it was funny.
Awesome tutorials Thank-you for your time and effort
You’re welcome, thanks!!
Nice I'll use this to bake out my procedural normals
Awesome!
Subscribed. Thanks for this tutorial.
Thank you!! You’re welcome too 😀
When not working try, Extrusion 1m too.
So helpful thank you !
This comment needs to get a pin thank you so much!!!!!!!
Wouldn't it be faster to use bake Wrangler add-on
Yes, yes it would. I’d have to show people where to get it though, and answer tons of support questions for an addon at the change of a version. I don’t see it included in the official release yet, unless I’m missing something...
Maybe this is a dumb question whose answer I could probably discern on my own by trying, but does the process change when you do it on a mesh that, oh, I dunno, has more than one face? Like a fully realized character? (Not being condescending, just threw in a little sarcasm). :)
I detect no condescending tone 😀. It can, however, there is a faster way with an addon called render wrangler. I probably won’t do a video on that as this one is telling me there’s not much interest in this in the community. Check it out though. This video is really about just taking a procedural texture that you’d want to write out to an image editing program. Planes are simple.
@@KevBinge fair enough. A friend shared this with me and I saw the title and thought "awesome, I can finally get the skin to look right on my lizard mesh". Then I watched. Regardless, still useful knowledge. You get my thumbs up.
Awesome man! Yeah, I think I might have not labeled this correctly or something. You can bake out the procedurals though as flat maps if you want to use this stuff in Unreal or Unity.
Nice I needed this :D
Thanks!
thanks pall, it so helping me
You’re welcome.
Awesome
Hey we do this because it works
It usually works that way haha!
Thumbs up, Master!
Lol! Thanks 😀
0:50 I have no idea what I'm doing 101...
what is your target audience?
Lol "Do this because it works." HAHA
Hehehe
o miserável é um gênio
Obrigada 😀
"A hook up that's way better than Tinder"
Did anyone else catch that?
😁
Yes. lol
what a champ
Thank you 😀
"CAUSE IT WORKS!"
🤟🤟
This dude is hillarious lol
Haha, thank you!!
2:21 Err... Nah!
Life. saver.
Glad it helps 😀
If you named your texture "Karen", it would ask to speak to the manager of Blender
Lol!!! I just saw what that means. I’ve been seeing the name everywhere so it was too of mind when I made the video.
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Thanks!
Hm I kinda got catfished here...
I hope in a good way 🤣
I needed this in my life!! Everybody makes baking seem so hard.. ya make it look easy! :)
Thanks Katy! It’s not too difficult with flat materials, it’s just not explained all that well in the manuals for 2.8x 😀
it says that the model isn't enable for rendering when i press bake
Click the "filter" icon in the top right, it kind of looks like a little key, from there click the camera icon, this will allow you to enable/disable any object in the render right from your scene collection. That's my preferred method. Cheers
Great guide man!
Thanks!! It works lol. I like it when things work 🤣
Hey, mate, thanks for the video! I followed your tutorial, but the final image texture turns out blank... More precisely it is transparent, with no color, nothing. Do you know what could be the problem? Thank you for your help!
Thanks. I need to redo this as there are better ways now. Ryan King Art has a good newer video on it I believe.
Followed, but my render came out grey transparent.. fix?
same
Im just getting a transparent background when i hit bake
I may need to update this one. Things may not work this way in the latest.
I did something wrong. All I have now in my bake is a black image. Blender is up to date too so im not sure what the problem is. Send Help
That’s strange. There are way better solutions to this now, and a great addon called bake wrangler. It’s paid but people really like it.
Sir@@KevBinge, please accept my love and praise lol.
Not sure why but its not working for me, just get this error No active image found in material "Material.002" (1) for object "targetbake"
How to export model with textures from blender to load it in Unity? I have procedural textures. Can I turn them into simple with some easier way?
The duplicant plane is for this exclusive object? I mean i have an sphere... i duplicate another sphere or a plane?¡
Ive tried 3 times and I cant get the render to show up. Any advice?
Chloe, yes. “I need to remake this video,” lol... but there is an addon called “bake wrangler” that might help. I have a feeling that 3.0 “may have” messed up this whole method.
Ohhh. Yes the update did change a few things. I was wondering why my bakes didn't work anymore. Hence searching on YT. Thank you for the quick response!
You’re welcome. Happy New Year Chloe!
@@KevBinge I did look into Bake Wrangler as well, it's no longer free but after reading up on it a bit, it was worth the purchase. It worked just as I needed it to and then some so I will be looking forward to some visual learning about this more if it's in your new year plan!
Happy New year to you as well! Thank you for the free learning :)
I don't understand why we do any of this.
annnnd suprise it didn't work. And I have no idea why either. I guess gandalf just didnt show up.
not sure y it didnt work for me probably cause I'm using blender 3.1
Could be.
Neat! it also doesn't disappear in eevee ether, so that's a huge plus!
is there an easy way to get material out of an object as 2s png??
How to exports 3d models
File, export, choose what format you want.
couldn't get it to work, was unable to render to the second object's texture.
That’s odd. This is from a day ago, have you had any progress?
@@KevBinge i just made a plane, applied the procedural texture to it, then rendered a square image. it's the most stupid way of doing it, but i couldn't be fucked to spend time troubleshooting, especially considering the fact that my textures looked like trash anyway.
@@Kira-zf7te Got it! Yeah, sometimes it’s best to just “brute force” things.
also, I gotta add... in case I came off as rude, it wasn't my intention. this was a very good video :3
You actually didn’t come off as rude at all, but someone with an honest question looking for help. Thanks for the concern though, I appreciate it 😀
Is it possible to render the skysphere or something like that to make custom skysphere/skybox textures? If so would you know how? Thanks in advance, I love that you create these video's that show these methods and abilities the software has that I didn't know about. I hope you continue to keep uploading.
why is mine just checkered? or is it supposed to be?
What part is checkered? The whole thing?
@@KevBinge the bake part, when i bake it, the black image turned into a checkers of black and gray
It says no active image found in some slot or something...
That’s odd. Did you set a new texture?
Blender truly needs a better solution than this.
Use armory, it can bake faster everything you have
It’s not optimal but it works.
Thanks!!
Bombastic....exactly what i was looking 4 ;)
Awesome!
finally!! Ive been stuck so long ehh now I can export this into Unity ! thank you !
Very cool!!!
Can you do it with more than one material and make all materials into one texture?
I believe so but I haven’t tried it.
Name of the photo editing software at the end??
Affinity Photo.
The image texture should be disconnected from shader in new material
If you’re just rendering the diffuse pass it doesn’t seem to matter but sure, go for it. Thanks for the tip though. 😀
blenderBinge if it is connected - error will appear before baking, isn’t it?
blenderBinge hmm, it was impossible in 2.82 but in 2.83 we don’t need to disconnect image texture and choose it when baking - it works very well. And it is nice. And it is not necessary to put mapping nodes - it works only with image texture as well ))
You are right, it does throw a circular error, but yeah, works well now in 2.83. Pretty sweet now, right? Blender just keeps getting better 😀. Thanks!
blenderBinge blender is wonderful ))
damn i love your sense of humor
Thank you 😀😀
Will this work if my nodes have displacement?
The normals will but displacement is tricky. There are paid addons like bake wrangler that handle that better. It’s tricky manually. Make sure too that any height maps should be 16bit to 32bit.
@@KevBinge How do I export my object for use in Unreal Engine because I've made a landscape. When I export it as fbx, it just becomes a normal flat plane.
Ah, for that you need to apply the modifier. There’s a drop down arrow on the modifier (I’m not in front of the computer at the moment, but it’s there.). You apply it and it turns the displacement into geometry. It might be heavy, so you may need to reduce it for UE, but it should work.
@@KevBinge I'll try it. Thanks for your help
You’re welcome. Let me know.
divines bless you my friend!
Likewise 😀
@@KevBinge i've just found a problem, this process does not seem to work properly on meshes that have shapes different to planes... still, it was really useful and helped me a lot!
Do you know if there is a way to bake the textures into a map that properly applies to a mesh's UV map?
hook up way better than tinder
so true=(
🤣🤣
"Hook up much better than Tinder" You are next Blender Guru, Man!
Haha, I wish, but thanks!!