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-====== The Baker ======
-The baker is the interface that we use to bake textures from high to low polygonal sources. From within the baker you can generate [[normal_maps_knald|Tangent Space Normal]]((Knald uses MikkTSpace by Morten S. Mikkelsen, which is available from http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Shading/Tangent_Space_Normal_Maps)), [[normal_maps_knald|Object Space Normal]], [[derivative_maps_knald|Derivative]], [[height_maps_knald|Displacement/Height]], [[ambient_occlusion_maps_knald|Ambient Occlusion]], [[concavity_maps_knald_beta|Concavity]], [[convexity_maps_knald_beta|Convexity]], [[curvature_maps_knald_beta|Curvature]], [[transmission_maps_knald|Transmission]] & [[vertex_color_maps_knald|Vertex Color]] maps from 3d source data.
-[{{https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.knaldtech.com/docuwiki/baker_knald.png?nolink|The Global Bake Settings}}]
-===== The Global Bake Group's Settings =====
-[{{https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.knaldtech.com/docuwiki/global_bake_settings_knald.png?nolink|The Global Bake Group's Settings}}]
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-**Dilation On/Off:** Enables dilation.
-**Anti-aliasing:** Here you can choose how much Anti-Aliasing is used during the baking process.
-  * **No AA:** No Anti-aliasing will be used during the baking process.
-  * **16xAA:** 16xAA Anti-aliasing (Supersampling) will be used during the baking process at the cost of a little speed.
-|         ^ No AA   ^ 2xAA   ^ 4xAA   ^ 8xAA   ^ 16xAA          ^
-^ 256²    |65536 | 131072| 262144|524288 |1048576 |
-^ 512²    | 262144 | 524288 | 1048576 | 2097152 | 4194304|
-^ 1024²   | 1048576 | 2097152 | 4194304 | 8388608 | 16777216 |
-^ 2048²   | 4194304 | 8388608 | 16777216 | 33554432 | 67108864|
-^ 4096²   | 16777216 | 33554432 | 67108864 | 134217728 | 268435456 |
-^ 8192²   | 67108864 |  134217728 | 268435456 | 536870912 | 1073741824 |
-[{{https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.knaldtech.com/docuwiki/no_aa.png?256|No Anti-Aliasing((Art courtesy of Charles Metze III http://www.the3dcharles.com/))}}][{{https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.knaldtech.com/docuwiki/16xaa.png?256|16x Anti-Aliasing (Supersampling)((Art courtesy of Charles Metze III http://www.the3dcharles.com/))}}]
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-**Conserve GPU Memory:** Reduces GPU memory for certain targets at the expense of quality. Should only be used if you're running out of VRAM and are unable to bake at higher resolutions.
-**Size:** The specified size of the baked texture, as per the width and height settings.
-  * **Width:** The desired width of the baked image which is to be generated.
-  * **Chain Icon:** Here you can constrain the width & height of the baked image together. Unchecking will unlink the values & allow independent values to be used.
-  * **Height:** The desired height of the baked image which is to be generated.
-**Pre Process/Bake:** This button pre-processes the selected meshes and then performs an initial test bake automatically. Once the pre-processes has been completed Knald does not need reprocess the meshes again until the source data has been modified (either by loading a new high poly mesh or by editing the existing meshes externally) and you may rebake as you wish at an increased speed.
-**Update Integrator:** Update the current baked image to [[the_integrator_knald|The Integrator]]. Mesh data from the baker is automatically carried over to The Integrator for use within Mesh AO and Transmission if needed.
-**View Cage:** Enables viewing of the projection cage.
-**View Range:** Enables viewing of the range cage.
-**Search Range:** The distance between the projection cage and the range cage.
-  * **1x Push** Sets the distance between the projection cage and the range cage to be identical to the value set on the push slider/spinner.
-  * **2x Push** Sets the distance between the projection cage and the range cage to be twice the value set on the push slider/spinner.
-  * **Manual:** Unlocks the range slider/spinner so a manual value may be used.
-===== Ray Projection Settings =====
-**Push:** The amount you wish to inflate the projection cage. The projection cage should in most instances completly enclose the High Poly mesh in order to render correctly.
-**Range:** The amount you wish to inflate the range cage. This should be set at a distance that is as close to the High Poly mesh as possible, while still being enclosed by it. Setting this value too high can cause unnecessary increases in render times.
-**Opacity:** Changes the opacity value of the projection and range cages.
-**View High Poly:** Toggles the High Poly mesh on/off in the 3d viewport. This does not affect the rendering of the meshes when baking.
-**View Low Poly:** Toggles the High Poly mesh on/off in the 3d viewport. This does not affect the rendering of the meshes when baking.
-===== Bake Meshes Settings=====
-[{{https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.knaldtech.com/docuwiki/bake_meshes_settings_knald.png?nolink|The Bake Meshes Settings}}]
-**High Poly:** Add a High Poly mesh here. The loading of multiple High Poly meshes simultaneously is supported via Shift+Select and doing so will automatically create a new slot per mesh.
-Clicking the +/- icons to the right will add & remove slots of previously loaded meshes from the stack.
-**Low Poly:** Add a Low Poly mesh here.
-**Cage Mesh:** This option allows you to specify an external cage mesh that should be used in place of Knald's internal cage system.
-Where the topology of the selected cage mesh does not match that of the low poly mesh (different vertex order, UVs or triangle count etc.), Knald will fall-back to its secondary option for non-topologically matched cages. In such cases the specified cage mesh will still be used.
-If any of the meshes used for baking are externally modified & saved, Knald will reload them once the Pre Process/Bake button is pressed. It should be noted that modifying the High Poly mesh will invalidate in the previously generated mesh cache and it will need to be regenerated.
-===== Bake Target Settings=====
-[{{https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.knaldtech.com/docuwiki/bake_targets_knald.png?nolink|The Bake Targets Settings}}]
-**Map Types:** A selection dropdown for choosing the type of map to bake.
-**Add Map:** Adds the selected target to the stack for baking.
-**Add All:** Adds all targets to the stack for baking.
-**Target Name:** The map type to be baked. Clicking the - icons to the right will remove targets from the stack.
-**Configure:** Configure your bake target preferences here.
-**Minus Button:** Remove the current bake target from the stack.

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