This page provides information on the Bake rollout under the Render tab in V-Ray's Render Settings.
Overview
Rendering to texture, or "texture baking” allows you to create texture maps based on an object's appearance in the rendered scene. The textures are then “baked” into the object, that is, they become part of the object via mapping, and can be used to display the textured object rapidly on graphics cards using hardware-accelerated APIs such as OpenGL and DirectX.
UI Path
||Properties Editor|| > Render > Render tab > Bake rollout
(When the Bake module is enabled from the Render rollout)
Parameters
Bake – Initiates the baking process.
Mode – Switches between the Selection and List modes of the rollout.
Selection – In this mode you bake the objects by selecting them in the scene.
List – In this mode you select and bake the objects from a list.
UV Map – Specifies the UV set that is going to be used for the texture baking.
Default
''VRayBake''
Add UV Map: Smart UV Project
Add UV Map: Lightmap Pack
Dilation – Sets a value for the number of pixels to expand around geometry.
Flip Derivs – When enabled, inverses the Bump mapping for the current object.
Square Resolution – When this option is off you can set any values for the resolution. Otherwise the resolution automatically is set to the closest power of two value.
Directory Path – Specifies the location of the file that stores the result of the baking.
File Name – Specifies the name of the file that stores the result of the baking.
