How to Bake Materials in Autodesk Maya

This guide is part of the RapidPipeline 3D Plugin Actions Knowledge Base. It shows how to Bake Materials on Autodesk Maya; if you'd like to know more about it, please check out the following links:

• Learn more about the Bake Materials
• Learn more about Autodesk Maya

1. On the Menu Bar, click on DGG RapidPipeline and choose Show Plugin Window.
2. Select the model you want to optimize (if no selection is made, the whole scene will be processed).
3. Inside the plugin window choose the action Bake Materials.
4. Press the Run button.

• How to invoke the Maya Plugin
• Adjust settings for the "Bake Materials" action
• Run the process
• Examine the results

This tutorial shows how use the RapidPipeline Processor Plugin in Maya to combine and bake four materials into a new single material, all automatically. For more information see the Maya Plugin Documentation.

The Add-On runs on a powerful 3D data optimization and automation toolset, for more about this see the 3D Processor Reference.

The asset used in this tutorial (https://skfb.ly/6VnPP) by Belzar Sirus is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

The shoe input versus output.

Here is a preview of the processing´s output: the input shoe (left) has four materials while the output (right) has been reduced to one material.

1. Select the model you want to optimize (if no selection is made, the whole scene will be processed). 1. Inside the plugin window choose the action Bake Materials. 1. Press the Run button.

The Bake Materials action opened in the Plugin.

The output now has only one material and three textures, but the same number of meshes as the input. This reduces the file size, and greatly improves draw calls for the exported asset, without sacrificing visual quality. And all in one click!

Screenshot of the textures, before and after optimization.

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