Blender PBR Texture Baker — Documentation & FAQ

Overview

Blender PBR Texture Baker is a utility addon for batch-baking complete PBR texture sets from multiple objects that share a unified UV layout. It uses Blender’s native baking system and is designed for clean, predictable PBR workflows.

Basic Usage

1. Prepare your objects:

   • Objects must share the same UV space (0–1).

   • Materials must use a single Principled BSDF connected to Material Output.

2. Select all objects you want to bake.

3. Open the Bake tab in the N-panel.

4. Choose the texture maps to bake and output settings.

5. Click Bake.

6. The addon generates a full PBR texture set in the chosen output folder.

Supported Maps

• Base Color 

• Roughness

• Metallic

• Alpha

• Specular

• Normal

• Additional maps may be added in future updates.

Requirements & Assumptions

• Materials must use one Principled BSDF node.

• Multi-shader or non-PBR material graphs are not supported.

• Objects must have properly prepared, shared UVs set to active.

• Blender’s native bake system must be available (no custom render engines).

Common Use Cases

• Game-ready asset baking

• Animation look-dev texture baking

• Asset delivery and archiving

• Texture atlas workflows

Limitations

• Does not support complex, shader node-heavy, or multi-shader materials.

• Does not generate UVs or modify existing UV layouts.

• Designed for standardized PBR workflows, not experimental shading setups.

Support & Updates

• GitHub repository: BlenderPBRTextureBaker

• Issues, bug reports, and feature requests can be submitted on GitHub.

• Purchases on Superhive help fund continued development and maintenance.