This workflow for baking maps and surfaces has wide support for renderers, including Arnold, with full queue control and includes error validation and compatible map filtering.

The process is important for interactive 3D applications like game environments where performance and visual lag need to be balanced and optimised to engage viewers. With a library of baked texture maps, 3D visual effects on objects can be rendered in real time without having to recalculate elements such as materials, lighting and shadows. Using a new baking to texture process, artists can represent complex surface effects as simple 2D bitmaps and then assign them to objects.

Texture baking in 3ds Max 2021 has been updated to support physically-based rendering (PBR), map override and OSL (Open Shading Language) workflows.

Viewport configuration and rendering are improved, in particular to support PBR rendering for real time applications, and support for Python 3 is integrated. 3ds Max 2021 Adds PBR and Texture Workflows, Python 3 IntegrationĪutodesk 3ds Max 2021 has a fully scriptable texture baking workflow and is simpler to install.

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