I would like to "Bake sometextures" in Vue Pro. I have looked in the manual and can't seem to find this info. Can anyone tell me how to do this? cheerio lululee

This is a new term I haven't heard of....will be watching out for this one.....What does it mean???? TIA

I did look at the manual (received Vue Pro but not installed yet), but I didn't see anything about 'baking textures'. The only thing I read involving baking is with boolean objects. 'Baking an object' will generate a single mesh instead of keeping a hierarchy of multiple intersecting objects. This is good if you want to have more control texturing it or exporting it somewhere else.

Attached Link: scotttucker3d HELP

In this thread scotttucker3d says the way to get rid of flicker is "Your final defense against HF noise is to bake the texture map and re-apply it in Vue" Any ideas? I will IM scotttucker3d id no one else has the info.

Well , went to see Scottucker3d thread and my idea is that in "baking" the texture, he means exporting the procedural Vue texture to a bitmap one and then reapply it on the obj as a mapped texture (no longer procedural) in order to reduce the flickering probl in animation... there is no advantage (to my opinion) in doing that for stills...

To bake, right-click the object and select "bake to polygons" from the list. Guitta

wow guitta saves the day AGAIN

Welcome back Guitta. You are amazing!

Welcome back Guitta. You are amazing! By the way, I am doing this for animation not stills.

:-) happy I could help a little.

"To bake, right-click the object and select "bake to polygons" from the list." Yes but with a microwave oven you can do that in just a fraction of the time that Vue Pro uses. It's incredible that a Pro software doesn't provide the user with a microwave oven! Unheard! Eon has deceived us all once again!! Join the protest!! (sorry... couldn't resist) ;-) Orio

Excellent ! everybody is happy but me !;) The thread is about TEXTURES and the answers are about POLYGONS... If you 'bake an object to polygons'(useful when you have a boolean), as agiel said you get a single obj much easier to manage ... BUT the textures remain procedural (the different textures remain) so : that doesn't help if the flickering in the animation comes from the textures being too complex . To 'Bake the texture' that is, to transform them in a mapped texture (simpler to compute), you have to File/ export the object and check the needed options : create color map, create bump map etc...

on the pict attached, the left obj is a 'Baked to polygons' boolean diff (the two textures are still procedural), the right one is the same obj exported and reimported it has now a single mapped texture...

Now isn't it a fine way to make oneself popular ? :-)))

Hey Polax YOU RULE!!!!!! Thanks so much. cheerio lululee

LOL Orio, that's too funny!!! I hope the Mil Dragon fits in that microwave!

It better do Grunthor. I have dragon's chops in the refrigerator and I don't like to eat them raw :-D And can't trash them for sure, dragon's meat is more and more dear these days with the inflation. :-D

Hey Orio!! I've got the greatest Minotaur stuffing recipe that would be just devine with those chops! Now just let me see if I can dig it up (bad pun intended) and I'll be sure and post it when/if I do '-)!! ==steve

Actually lululee I explained the whole thing in that earlier thread. You bake the model to very lo-res polys (since you won't be using it) and create a hi-res texture map that you again re-apply to your original geometry. All the details are in the thread - I think you just need to read the whole thing. And yes - this is only for animation to get rid of high-frequency noise and sparklies. It will work fine for stills but you will lose detail and stills need detail. Scott

And yes bake in this case means export so you get the maps. High-end apps like maya bake textures by automatically converting the procedural textures to a map right on the same model - that is where the term bake comes from. Hehe - no microwaves or ovens of any kind were used : ) Scott

Hi scotttucker3d, I really appreciate everyone's time and patience in explaining all of this. It is such a learning curve. Without everyone in this forum I would be totally lost. cheerio lululee

You're welcome - vue was a learning curve for me a couple of years ago too. Before that I was a Brycer and there are a great deal of differences between Bryce and Vue. This forum got me up to speed in a hurry - there are some really nice people in the vue forum, and some great 3d artists. Cheerio to you too. Scott