Roadmap

Ideas for changes and improvements that could be implemented in future versions, as well as a tracker for known bugs in the published version, are provided here.

Improvements

• Prioritize material output with Cycles renderer (+ use fallback material output)

• Reuse Elements - Separate & Collapsed

• Checkbox/enum to create new UVs instead of overwrite

• Bake map based bit depth control

• Bake map based texture export settings

• Final material render method: dithered, blended; transparency overlap

• Load by Linked -> Import + load when not default

• Performance panel (Settings) with render device setting, and memory tile size

• Bake Wizard

• USD object export

• List based type visibility control

• Miscellaneous bake maps node setups into node groups

• Full socket support for all the shader nodes

• Option to change the bake list's default type, scale, and multiplier values

• Safety timer to detect any unexpected Python error and reset the processes

Known Issues

• Error on OBJ object export (Linux)

• Material not prepared for bake when the material output is nested in a node group

• Preview gets stuck after a redo operation (although another redo unsticks it)

• Crash while moving the shader nodes during the material cleanup/restore process

• Materials are not cleaned up from the texture inspection if during it Blender is saved and closed

• Disabled texture queue items gets re-enabled when they are disabled before the first texture is baked for the object (only when the disabled bake option is set to active object)

It is not guaranteed when, or even if, any of the following will be implemented in future versions. These serve as a guide for what is hoped to be accomplished.