• yonlay

  almost 2 years ago

  Just magic. A few parameters, one click and done. Almost perfect.

  However, as 99% of the addons for Blender, SimpleBake is based on top of vanilla Blender's functionalities, which in some areas is quite poor.

  For example, the background of the baked images is black and the edges are jagged. That makes no sense at all. Most of the time, it makes some black seams in the resulting maps over the mesh. The correct behavior should be to extend the average color to the background and fade the borders. That is what you get from other dedicated software to this matter, like Substance Painter.

  I also find the UDIM workflow not as intuitive as the rest of the addon is, but it is nothing out of what I normally do without it and there is a pretty handy tip that tells you exactly what to do.

  Out of that, the addon is just over the level.

• raphael

  almost 2 years ago

  This is a fantastic and excellent ADDON.
  Congrats on the development and thanks for sharing!
  Have a great year 2023!

• Ivan Mironov

  almost 2 years ago

  Does exactly what it sets out to do. No muss, no fuss, takes a lot of the hassle of guesswork out and simplifies it all. It took a bit of experimenting to figure out the settings and get the result I wanted but that only took about 10 minutes. That's a plus in my book.

• Luca-Gabriel

  almost 2 years ago

  It's perfection.

• Mike

  about 2 years ago

  Thanks so much for making this. Saved me hours of work. Makes my particular workflow working with chunked photogrammetry meshes about 100x faster

• Bango

  about 2 years ago

  First of all, Simple Bake is very simple and clearly designed in terms of appearance. In addition, with Simple Bake you have the possibility to perform several bakes in one go, which saves you a lot of work and time in practice, since this is unfortunately not possible with the internal function of Blender, at least to my knowledge.

  Nevertheless, I can only give 2 stars to this very promising addon, which has a lot of potential, for the following reasons.

  If you have questions or problems, which should of course be related to this addon, then you currently have only two options to hope for help. Either you can find the information you are looking for in the FAQ or you can contact the developer directly and the latter option depends heavily on whether the developer is willing and ready to help you. If he is not, as in my case, then you have basically suffered or had bad luck. Instead, you're offered a refund, which is nice, but it's only a workaround and doesn't solve the problem. If you then prefer to solve the problem instead of accepting a refund, you run the risk that the developer will not want to answer you in the future and will refuse any support.

  In my case, the problem was that Blender crashed in most cases during the baking process with Simple Bake. Since I had not found help either on the internet or in Simple Bake's FAQ, I contacted the developer and told him about the problem. I am also not well-versed in the subject of submitting bug reports so that I know from the start what information is needed to fix the problem. So I asked the developer to tell me what information he needed and then I would provide it to him immediately, which I did. It then turned out that Blender had neither displayed an error message nor created a crash file during the process. Because of this missing information and because I was apparently also the only person with this problem, this circumstance was also already reason enough for him to not want/must/be able to help me any further. In the meantime, I had, among other things, expressed further questions, problems and suggestions for improvement, which were all ignored, however, until he finally told me in a message that he would simply not answer me at all in the future.

  Now you can think what you want about it, but I find this decision and attitude incorrect.

  If you as a developer do not have the time or desire to respond to all inquiries, then I can understand that, but then you should at least offer your customers the possibility that they can help each other out or exchange questions and problems on an appropriate platform.

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  HaughtyGrayAlien

  about 2 years ago

  The level to which I was “willing to help you” was approx 50 messages over the course of a month (more than probably any other customer I’ve ever spoken to). Not once during those 50 messages could you provide any details or even evidence of your supposed problem. I even provided a copy of SimpleBake to the Blender developers to test (after you opened a bug report) and they told you that they couldn’t find the problem either. In the end, even you couldn’t find the problem anymore. I offered you a refund to draw a line under the matter (even letting you keep SimpleBake), but you refused to take it. Total support you received was about 1000x better than you deserved.
• George

  about 2 years ago

  Saved me hours of time! So I was using an online program called Monster Mash for converting 2d to 3d objects and added custom roughness and ramp maps. Not at all proficient at Blender but really wanted to bake the textures in the new models to add to my UNity scene. This add made the process just so easy. Model and all textures baked in minutes and then extracted to a folder of my choice. So much easier than the default Blender Baking! Blender and Unity need to get their houses in order and start hiring real developers like this one.

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  HaughtyGrayAlien

  about 2 years ago

  Hi George - Thank you for this! It's really nice to hear. While I'm flattered by the suggestion, I don't think I'd cut it as a developer at either Blender or Unity :-) All the best.
• Refaei

  about 2 years ago

  Great tool! it saves a lot of time and the developer is very helpful and answered all my questions.

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  HaughtyGrayAlien

  about 2 years ago

  Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. This is great to hear, thank you.
• Nate

  about 2 years ago

  This has really helped simplify my baking process - turning an hour of stop and go PBR workflows into a 15 min process.

  The creator was really responsive with support, which is a rare and great think to find among blender add-on creators. I strongly recommend this add-on as a must have!

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  HaughtyGrayAlien

  about 2 years ago

  This is great to here! Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. I really appreciate it.
• Karsten Fridstrøm

  about 2 years ago

  I absolutely love this addon, and I use it all the time. I have noticed an annoying flaw though; when I have multiple meshes and want to bake them all into a merged texture set it takes about 10 times as long as if you simply connect them all into one mesh beforehand. Especially if you want to bake to UDIMS then it increases the bake time exponentially for each image. Thought you should know, so you can hopefully fix it, and speed up whatever is causing it to become so slow.

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  HaughtyGrayAlien

  about 2 years ago

  Thanks for the review. That's a limitation of Blender. I can only send one object at a time to the bake engine. If you keep the objects separate, it will have to fire it up for each one which does take longer.

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