Bake One Click - Smart Baking & Layered PSD Output

Stop wrestling with bake settings. Bake everything in one click.

Bake One Click is a Blender 5.1+ add-on that turns the tedious

multi-step baking workflow into a single button press. Bake Normal,

AO, Base Color, Roughness, Metallic, and geometric Displacement maps

— all from one panel.

What makes it truly unique is its layered baking mode: bake opaque

and translucent parts of your high-poly mesh as separate layers,

then automatically merge them into a single layered PSD file — ready

to open in any standard PSD-compatible image editor.

Key Features:

- One-Click Standard Baking: Normal, AO, Base Color, Roughness,

  Metallic, and geometric Displacement maps.

- Layered Baking Mode (Unique): Perfect for translucent materials

  like leaves, cloth, or glass. Outputs a layered PSD with separate

  Opaque and Transparent layers, ready for compositing.

- Geometric Displacement Baking: Bakes real displacement detail from

  the high-poly mesh using ray casting, exported as 32-bit EXR for

  full precision.

- Smart Material Handling: Works with any Principled BSDF material.

  Automatically disables emission during bake and restores the node

  graph afterwards.

- Independent Displacement Settings: Displacement has its own cage

  extrusion and max ray distance, so you can fine-tune it separately

  from the other maps.

- Pure Python, No Binaries: Fully open source. No compiled binaries

  or external dependencies.

- Open Source: Licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later. Full source code is

  publicly available on GitHub.

Who Is This For?

- Game artists preparing textures for game engines

- 3D generalists who need quick texture bakes

- Texture artists working with PBR material workflows

- Anyone tired of the multi-step Blender bake workflow

Quick Start:

Standard Bake: Select your mesh (or select high-poly and set

low-poly as active for Selected-to-Active), choose maps, set output

directory, click Bake All.

Layered Bake: Enable Layered Mode, assign Low Poly, Opaque High

Poly, and Transparent High Poly, click Layered Bake + PSD.

Technical Details:

- Blender Version: 5.1 or newer

- Render Engine: Cycles (auto-switched)

- Output Formats: PNG (8-bit) for color/data maps, EXR (32-bit) for

  Displacement

- Max Resolution: 4096 x 4096

- Dependencies: None