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Substance Bakers

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  1. Substance 3D home
  2. Home
  3. Getting Started
    1. What is Baking?
    2. Software interface
      1. Substance 3D Painter
      2. Substance 3D Designer
      3. Substance 3D Automation Toolkit
    3. Availability per software
    4. Compatible 3D software
    5. Tutorials
  4. Bakers settings
    1. Settings overview
    2. Common Parameters
    3. Ambient Occlusion
    4. Ambient Occlusion from Mesh
    5. Bent Normals from Mesh
    6. Color Map from Mesh
    7. Convert UV to SVG
    8. Curvature
    9. Curvature from Mesh
    10. Curvature from Mesh (deprecated)
    11. Height Map from Mesh
    12. Normal Map from Mesh
    13. Opacity Mask from Mesh
    14. Position
    15. Position map from Mesh
    16. Thickness Map from Mesh
    17. Transferred Texture from Mesh
    18. World Space Direction
    19. World Space Normals
  5. Guides
    1. Error and Warning Messages
    2. Performances and optimizations
    3. Triangulating before baking
  6. Features
    1. Geometry Cache
    2. GPU Raytracing
    3. Matching by Name
    4. Tangent Space
  7. Common questions
    1. How to export the baked maps?
    2. Is dithering applied to baked textures?
    3. Should I enable "Compute tangent space per fragment"?
    4. What are Assbin files?
    5. What is the bit depth of baked textures?
    6. What is the difference between the OpenGL and DirectX normal format?
    7. Why are there strange stretches in my textures after baking or exporting?
    8. Why is Matching by Name not working with Ambient Occlusion/Thickness?
    9. Why is my mesh fully black after baking?
  8. Common issues
    1. Aliasing on UV Seams
    2. Baker output is fully black or empty
    3. Baking failed with Color Map from Mesh
    4. Black shading cross are visible on the mesh surface
    5. Mesh parts bleed between each other
    6. Normal map has strange colorful gradients
    7. Normal texture looks faceted
    8. Seams are visible after baking a normal texture
    9. Seam visible on every face
    10. Texture baked outside of Substance software looks incorrect

Height Map from Mesh

The Height Map from mesh baker allows you to create a height map from a high poly mesh.Available in:

  • Painter
  • Designer
  • Automation Toolkit

Parameters

ParameterDescription
Normalization

Defines how the height range of values should be saved down into the texture.

Possible values:

  • Relative to ray distance:
  • Relative to low poly mesh (per UV Tile) (default)
  • Relative to Min/Max (per UV Tile)
  • Manual
Scaling divisor

Define how much the height values should be multiplied or divided.

Only available when the Normalization is set to Manual.

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