⚡ CurvBake Pro — High Quality Curvature Map Baker for Blender

Stop waiting for noisy, slow curvature bakes in Blender! CurvBake Pro brings high quality, production-ready curvature baking directly into your Blender 3D workflow.

Powered by a dual-engine architecture featuring custom C++ OpenMP multi-threading and NVIDIA OptiX GPU hardware acceleration, CurvBake Pro bakes ultra-crisp curvature maps in seconds with blazing-fast speed!

📊 Substance Painter & CurvBake Pro (Side-by-Side Comparison)

Achieve curvature map quality virtually indistinguishable from Substance Painter directly inside Blender! Eliminate tedious FBX export/import roundtrips and bake production-ready maps straight to your UV layout.

• ✅ Identical Neutral Baseline: Perfect 128 neutral grey flat surfaces matching standard texturing workflows.
• ✅ Deep Cavity Shadows: Rich, deep shadow floors inside tight crevices and cloth folds.
• ✅ Crisp Edge Separation: Broad, clean edge highlights without noise or ray-casting artifacts.
• ✅ 100% Seamless: 16px 3D dilation ensures zero UV seam bleeding.
  
  

🌟 Key Features

• 🚀 Blazing-Fast Baking: Bake 1K, 2K, and 4K curvature maps ultra-fast with GPU acceleration.
• 🎮 Dual-Engine Architecture:
  • GPU OptiX Mode: Razor-sharp edge highlights and crisp bevel separation for Hard-Surface, Vehicles, Guns, and Sci-Fi props.
  • CPU C++ Engine: Smooth 3D Laplacian cavity falloff for Organic Sculptures, Characters, and Cloth Folds.
• 🎯 Optimized Histogram Calibration: Perfect neutral grey flat surfaces with rich, deep shadow cavity floors — zero manual levels adjustment needed!
• 🌐 Zero UV Seam Artifacts: 16px 3D normal vector field dilation completely eliminates UV seam bleeding and pixelated border artifacts.
• 🎨 1-Click Viewport Preview: Instantly preview baked maps on your 3D mesh in Material Preview mode with zero node tree setup.
• 📏 Live Wireframe Cage Preview: Visually inspect and adjust Ray Distance / Cage Offset directly in the 3D Viewport.

📦 Deliverable Assets & Compatibility

• File: CurvBake_Pro_v1.0.0.zip
• Blender Versions: Blender 3.6 LTS, 4.0+
• Platform: Windows 10 / 11 (Universal static C++ binary included)