[Bf-gamedev] Cycles Baking Development

[Dalai Felinto]

Hi all,

Some update:

The *bake-cycles* branch is near feature complete for its first round.
The only missing bit is anti-alias which I'm tempted to post-pone
until after the first round of code-review.

Recent/New features:
* User Interface (no more need to fiddle with Python scripts)
* File Formats (save as PNG, JPG, OpenEXR, Tiff, Targa and BMP -
RGB/RGBA - 8/16/32)
* Custom Cage
* Normal swizzle (change the axis that gets mapped to RGB)
* Normal space (save as tangent, world, object)

As usual the code is here:
* https://github.com/dfelinto/blender-git/tree/bake-cycles

The Blender-Artist thread [1] is still getting a lot of attention, but
I would rather if testers could use the github issue list to report
bugs:

https://github.com/dfelinto/blender-git/issues?state=open

I'll try to do some code cleaning up and address some of the known
issues in the remaining of the week. Hopefully the code can be
available for code-reviewers by next Blender Sunday Dev Meeting.

[1] - http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?326534

Cheers,
Dalai
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2014-02-17 23:41 GMT-03:00 Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com>:
> Hi there.
> I just pushed support for "Selected to Active" in the bake-cycles
> branch. The new parameters for the operator are:
>
> * use_selected_to_active=False
> * cage_extrusion=0.0
>
> The idea is to bake from a high-poly mesh to a low-poly mesh.
>
> Notes:
> * There is no pre-visualization of the cage
> * The cage always look inwards
> * The cage cannot be 'edited' (all you can change is the cage extrusion)
> * The calculation is done in the local space of the objects (as if the
> objects had scale 1,1,1, and were in origin with no rotation)
> * I tested against XNormals (managed to install "here") and the result
> seem to be matching, though the color is coded slightly different for
> object normal maps:
>
> Cycles RGB = XNormal R(1-B)G
> XNormal RGB = Cycles RB(1-G)
>
> Cheers,
> Dalai
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