Curvbake Pro - High Quality Curvature Map Baker

Nuriddin Khamidov in Materials and Shading


📖 CurvBake Pro — User Guide & Documentation

Thank you for purchasing CurvBake Pro! Follow this step-by-step guide to install the addon and bake your first curvature map inside Blender.


🛠️ 1. Installation

  1. Open Blender (v3.6 LTS, v4.0, or newer).
  2. Go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons.
  3. Click Install... (or Install from Disk) in the top right corner.
  4. Select the downloaded CurvBake_Pro_v1.0.0.zip file and click Install Add-on.
  5. Enable the checkbox next to Generic: CurvBake Pro.
  6. The addon panel will appear in the 3D Viewport N-Sidebar under the CurvBake Pro tab!

🚀 2. How to Bake a Curvature Map

⚠️ IMPORTANT REQUIREMENT: CurvBake Pro is a specialized High-Poly to Low-Poly baking engine. You must select BOTH a High-Poly Target object and a Low-Poly Source object before clicking Bake!

  1. Press N in the 3D Viewport to open the side panel and click on CurvBake Pro.
  2. Select your High-Poly Target mesh and your Low-Poly Source mesh using the eyedropper pickers.
  3. Choose your Hardware Compute Device:
    • GPU (NVIDIA OptiX): High-contrast, razor-sharp edge highlights for hard-surface assets.
    • CPU (C++ OpenMP): Smooth 3D Laplacian cavity falloffs for organic sculptures.
  4. (Optional) Click SHOW CAGE PREVIEW to visually inspect and tune the Ray Distance wireframe cage.
  5. Choose your target resolution (e.g. 1024, 2048, 4096).
  6. Click BAKE CURVATURE MAP!

🎨 3. Viewport Preview

  • Click PREVIEW ON MESH to instantly preview your baked curvature map on the low-poly model in Material Preview mode.
  • Click RESTORE MATERIAL to revert back to your original material setup.
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Published about 2 months ago
Blender Version 3.6 - 5.2
Extension Type N/A
License GPL
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