Oh My Bake 1 — User Guide

Every Geometry Nodes bake of the scene in one panel: status, frames and size, and Bake All, BakeMissing, Delete, Pack and Unpack for everything, one object or one bake.

Requirements & compatibility

Install

1. Download oh_my_bake-1.0.0.zip. Don't unzip it.
2. In Blender open Edit ▸ Preferences ▸ Get Extensions.
3. Click the ⌄ arrow in the top-right corner and choose Install from Disk…
4. Pick the zip. Oh My Bake is installed and enabled at once.

Tip: you can also drag the zip from your file browser straight into the Blender window.

Updating: install the new zip the same way.Uninstalling: Preferences ▸ Get Extensions, find Oh My Bake, ⌄ ▸ Uninstall. Your bakes stay as they are.

Where to find it

In the 3D Viewport press N to open the sidebar, then click the OhMyTools tab. The panel is calledOh My Bake.

Quick start

1. Save your file if you bake to disk (Blender 4.2 always bakes to disk; 4.3+ packs into the .blend by default).
2. Open the Oh My Bake panel. Every object with a Bake node or a Simulation zone is listed.
3. Click Bake All. The bakes run one after another, with progress in the status bar.
4. Check the summary at the top: how many are baked and how much space they take.

The panel, from top to bottom

Summary

While several bakes run, the summary shows 3/12: Object › Group › Node and a Stop button.

Buttons

Filters

The search field filters by object name. The icons next to it: only selected objects, only objects withmissing bakes, also Geometry Nodes objects without bakes (to switch them off too), and refresh (readsthe status from disk again, e.g. after deleting files by hand).

The list

Every object has a row with its name, 2/3 (baked / all) and buttons to bake or delete all of its bakes.Click the arrow to expand it:

• the object's total bake size,
• each Geometry Nodes modifier with its monitor (viewport) and camera (render) switches,
• each bake on two lines: where it lives (Group › Node, a node icon for Bake nodes, a physics icon for simulations), then its status and buttons:

Bake buttons: bake (the render icon), pack or unpack (4.3+), delete (trash).

Clicking an object selects it (Shift+click adds to the selection). Clicking a modifier also makes it theactive modifier, so it opens in Properties ▸ Modifiers.

Where bakes are stored

• Packed (default since Blender 4.3): inside the .blend. Nothing extra on disk, but the .blend grows.
• Disk: in a folder next to the .blend, by default blendcache_<file name>/<object>_<modifier>/. The location is set per modifier (or per bake) in Properties ▸ Modifiers ▸ Bake.
• Oh My Bake follows those settings. It never changes where a bake goes, except that Unpack writes to the modifier's folder (Blender's default folder if none is set).

How several bakes run

Bakes run one after another. Between two bakes Blender redraws, so you see the progress and can pressStop: the bake that is running finishes, and the rest is skipped. A single bake can take a while for bigsimulations, and Blender is busy during that one bake, like with Blender's own bake button.

Troubleshooting

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