
Changelog
Auto Bake has undergone several version changes since its launch, featuring major improvements, significant updates, and bug fixes. Here, you can find a summary of the changes made in each version.
Improvements
Bake Map Visibility Control: Instead of using simple toggles for categories, a new window now allows each bake map to be individually disabled or enabled, moved within categories, or transferred into another one. Categories can also be created, deleted, renamed, and moved.
Bake List Import: One-click solution for instantly importing (via the Load by Linked option) bake maps into the bake list by Ctrl-clicking on the bake list's add button.
Customizable Default Item Values: Options to set default list item scale, multiplier, and map values.
Scale and Multiplier Step Control: Options for adjusting the scale and multiplier step values, controlling how much they increase or decrease when changing them.
List Design Customization: Five different list design options for controlling the look of the queue, tile, and bake lists.
Edited List Item Focus: Automatically selects the edited list item (scale, type, multiplier, tile).
Split Texture Export Settings: Allows choosing between two export settings for each bake map that will be used when exporting the baked textures.
Per-Map Bit Depth Setting: Enables setting the bit depth for each bake map individually.
New Target UV: Target UV option 'New', it creates a new UV map using Blender's Smart UV Project with the set UV name. If a UV map with that name already exists, it will be used instead of creating a new one.
Keep Bake Map Preview: When the previewed and selected bake list item's type is changed, it automatically re-enables the preview for the changed map.
Baking Multiresolution Maps: The multiresolution modifier is now automatically removed from the final object if a normal or displacement texture was baked from it (avoiding double normal or displacement strength).
Texture Interpolation: Option to change the default texture interpolation method for the baked textures.
Texture Name Filtering: Names are no longer pre-filtered for characters reserved by the operating system. Filtering now only occurs during export, affecting only the exported texture file's name.
Object Name Filtering: Exported object file names are now also filtered for characters reserved by the operating system during export.
Filename Character Filtering: Two new options for setting which characters to filter from the file names and what characters to replace them with.
Final Material Synchronization: Option to synchronize the final material with the final object (by default, the final material is matched to the final object).
Material Cleanup Synchronization: Option to synchronize the material cleanup option with the final object (by default, material cleanup is matched to the final object).
Texture Export Synchronization: Option to synchronize texture export with object export (by default, the texture export settings match the object export).
Changes
Panel Property Display: Changed the display method of properties within the folder, object, material, image, bake list, queue, and selected-to-active panels.
Map Menu Order: Inverted the order of maps by categories within the bake type menu.
Bake Start Popup: Set the "Bake by material" option to be disabled by default as shown in the bake start popup window. Added descriptions to the category markers to improve clarity.
Preset: Removed the Color Override option and its properties from the presets and moved the "Bake by material" option from the Materials into the Bake List's menu.
Text Alerts Update: Removed the "Alerts (All)" and "Bake Errors" options since they are no longer used.
Preferences Menu: Adjusted the preferences menu to reflect new and removed properties. New categories have been created, and some existing ones have been renamed.
Property and Button Descriptions: The descriptions for some buttons and properties were updated to improve clarity and correct typos.
Use Render Sampling Option: The option was moved to Preferences > Map Method > Sampling.
Auto-Pick Sampling Option: The auto-pick sampling option was removed and is now enabled whenever the Sampling Map Method is set to split.
Node Tiling Option: The option was moved to Preferences > Material.
Bake by Material: The option was moved to the Bake List's dropdown menu from the Material panel.
Target UV Set: The option was renamed from "Set" to "Selected."
Load by Linked Rename: The option was renamed to "Import", and its popup window's 'Item Placement' and 'Reset Source' options were removed.
Shortcut Function Updates: Certain buttons had their Ctrl, Shift, and Alt functionalities modified, including the list add, remove, up, and down buttons. See button descriptions for details.
Icon Behavior Update: This change ensures that toggle options no longer change their icons based on their states (only checkmark icons are used).
Final Object Visibility: The option was moved from Object > Final panel to Preferences > Assorted section.
Baking Multiresolution Modifier: Changed to use the first enabled multiresolution modifier in the stack instead of the first one, whether it is enabled or not.
Panel Title Behavior: Clicking on the panel's name now always opens or closes the panel whether there is a checkbox in the title or not.
Fixes
Bake Map Preview: Resolved a breaking issue where an undo operation caused the bake map preview to get stuck and prevented it from being disabled with the preview button.
Baking Unset Multiresolution: Addressed an error that occurred when baking a multiresolution texture while the object's multiresolution modifier was disabled or had no subdivision level.
UV Overwrite: Corrected the UV overwrite option when baking multiple objects with shared textures enabled.
Invalid File Paths: Fixed valid file paths flagged in certain cases as non-existent.
Final Material (Standard) Normal: Handled the baked (Standard) Normal texture to also automatically set up for the final material.
Remove Duplicates: Resolved the remove duplicates button removing all the duplicates instead of leaving one instance of the duplicated list items.
Bake Queue: Fixed an issue where no instance of the duplicated bake list items was added to the bake queue.
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