BAKING!! What is it?

[matty429]

Its sort of like a command that allows you to compute processes before you play an animation or render...Also you won't have to bake more than once unless you make changes ...

Is there a specific instance you seek a answer for?

like bake simulation....

or bake keys?

they are all a little different

[stunndman]

or bake lighting?

[Jozvex]

Yeah it basically 'saves' it.

Baking a simulation 'saves' the simulation by converting it to keyframe animation.

Baking your lighting usually creates texture maps that store the shading as well as the colour/bump etc.

Baking something stops it from being recalculated again.

[playmesumch00ns]

...at the cost of a heeeuge amount of disk space if you want to cache particles or cloth:)

[Jozvex]

Yeah, for particles it creates 1 file for each particle per frame I think.

So 200 particles (which is not many) over 100 frames = 20 000 files!

But, it means you can scrub the timeslider back and forth and it will play properly. And you can be assured (most of the time) that your particles will render exactly how you want them too.

[TumikSmacker]

baking is actually a hobby of mine

[Maya Ayanami]

where are these baking options located

[stunndman]

which one ?

F1 -> Search -> "baking"

[Jozvex]

For Dynamics:

Edit > Keys > Bake Simulalation

For Shaders:

Shift-pick the object in the view and the material swatch in Hypershade.

Select Edit > Convert to File Texture in Hypershade.

For Baking file textures onto fur

From within a fur description's Attribute Editor choose Bake Attribute.

And they're the most common ones!

[wrend]

TumikSmacker - i love your lil mouse pic! due to the fact it reminds me of my most favouritist of publican pictures, a mosue just like yours approaching a mouse trap! heh. love it. love alexx' and sheepfactorie's.

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