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• Alex Babcock

  over 3 years ago

  I would love to review the product, but it seems the Blender 3.0 download is currently missing for some reason. I hope it is fixed soon.

• Karsten Fridstrøm

  almost 4 years ago

  I absolutely love this addon, and I use it all the time. I have noticed an annoying flaw though; when I have multiple meshes and want to bake them all into a merged texture set it takes about 10 times as long as if you simply connect them all into one mesh beforehand. Especially if you want to bake to UDIMS then it increases the bake time exponentially for each image. Thought you should know, so you can hopefully fix it, and speed up whatever is causing it to become so slow.

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  HaughtyGrayAlien

  almost 4 years ago

  Thanks for the review. That's a limitation of Blender. I can only send one object at a time to the bake engine. If you keep the objects separate, it will have to fire it up for each one which does take longer.
• Patrick

  over 5 years ago

  Really love this.. needs a progress bar

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  HaughtyGrayAlien

  over 5 years ago

  Already does. Any background bake shows the % complete.
• Damion Hill

  almost 6 years ago

  It kind of does what it says. You still need to prep the scene. I wish it were more automated. At least I donated to the cause. It doesn’t even bake UDIM maps.

• ChrisP

  almost 7 years ago

  Haven't heard from support in a while (almost a week now) in regarding a problem relating baking normal maps. There are also a few ui problems. The upside to this addon however is that the diffuse baking works great, as well as metallic and roughness. I found another product on blender market that might work for me so I might give that a shot. Will change my review once i receive a response with these issues.

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  HaughtyGrayAlien

  almost 7 years ago

  Hi. I have replied to your support query (please note I am not promising 24 hour instant support here... it's a $10 add-on and you didn't even give me a week). You didn't provide any real information to help you (just vague talk about problems), and you are the only person out of 100s experiencing these "problems" so.....
• Phil

  over 1 year ago

  Asset is good but having no written documentation is a shame. For each button, in order to know what it does, I have to look at some videos which are not very focused, and even there not everything is described.

• Zechariah

  about 2 years ago

  When it works, its great. However, it only works about 2% of the time. I've tried every setting possible and my results come out completely unusable almost every time. it also crashes after every single bake. I've used this addon for weeks and have been nothing but frustrated. Even on very low poly objects, the bakes come out garbage and it crashes. I was really excited about this addon because baking is a huge pain. It should be easier than this and not soul crushing. I hate that I wasted my money.

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  HaughtyGrayAlien

  about 2 years ago

  Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback on SimpleBake.

  SimpleBake is designed to make the baking process in Blender more straightforward, but it does require a basic understanding of the fundamentals of baking. The aim of SimpleBake is to enhance and simplify the baking experience, not to replace the foundational knowledge necessary for baking textures effectively in Blender.

  I understand that not everyone finds the same tools intuitive, particularly if they are unfamiliar with the underlying process. If options are selected without an understanding of their purpose, the results can often be unpredictable. However, we do offer several resources to help users make the most of SimpleBake, including YouTube tutorials, a comprehensive FAQ, and a Discord community. You are also welcome to contact me directly via BlenderMarket, though I am unable to provide personalised lessons or workflow advice.

  I appreciate that SimpleBake may not be the right fit for everyone. If you feel it’s not suitable for your needs, please do get in touch via BlenderMarket, and I would be more than happy to approve a refund.
• Valentin

  about 2 years ago

  the workflow is nice but it is so prone to crashes and updates have not fixing any of that.

• [email protected]

  over 2 years ago

  The tool has alot of functions but its most important function (to save out the maps) is not working. You can set an output folder but it will not save out the maps, the maps remain in blender, therefore you have to manually still save out each of the baked maps which is quite tedious. I tried to contact the creator a few weeks ago but have gotten no reply regarding this issue. Cannot recommend.

• Bango

  almost 4 years ago

  First of all, Simple Bake is very simple and clearly designed in terms of appearance. In addition, with Simple Bake you have the possibility to perform several bakes in one go, which saves you a lot of work and time in practice, since this is unfortunately not possible with the internal function of Blender, at least to my knowledge.

  Nevertheless, I can only give 2 stars to this very promising addon, which has a lot of potential, for the following reasons.

  If you have questions or problems, which should of course be related to this addon, then you currently have only two options to hope for help. Either you can find the information you are looking for in the FAQ or you can contact the developer directly and the latter option depends heavily on whether the developer is willing and ready to help you. If he is not, as in my case, then you have basically suffered or had bad luck. Instead, you're offered a refund, which is nice, but it's only a workaround and doesn't solve the problem. If you then prefer to solve the problem instead of accepting a refund, you run the risk that the developer will not want to answer you in the future and will refuse any support.

  In my case, the problem was that Blender crashed in most cases during the baking process with Simple Bake. Since I had not found help either on the internet or in Simple Bake's FAQ, I contacted the developer and told him about the problem. I am also not well-versed in the subject of submitting bug reports so that I know from the start what information is needed to fix the problem. So I asked the developer to tell me what information he needed and then I would provide it to him immediately, which I did. It then turned out that Blender had neither displayed an error message nor created a crash file during the process. Because of this missing information and because I was apparently also the only person with this problem, this circumstance was also already reason enough for him to not want/must/be able to help me any further. In the meantime, I had, among other things, expressed further questions, problems and suggestions for improvement, which were all ignored, however, until he finally told me in a message that he would simply not answer me at all in the future.

  Now you can think what you want about it, but I find this decision and attitude incorrect.

  If you as a developer do not have the time or desire to respond to all inquiries, then I can understand that, but then you should at least offer your customers the possibility that they can help each other out or exchange questions and problems on an appropriate platform.

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  HaughtyGrayAlien

  almost 4 years ago

  The level to which I was “willing to help you” was approx 50 messages over the course of a month (more than probably any other customer I’ve ever spoken to). Not once during those 50 messages could you provide any details or even evidence of your supposed problem. I even provided a copy of SimpleBake to the Blender developers to test (after you opened a bug report) and they told you that they couldn’t find the problem either. In the end, even you couldn’t find the problem anymore. I offered you a refund to draw a line under the matter (even letting you keep SimpleBake), but you refused to take it. Total support you received was about 1000x better than you deserved.

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