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Location

Panel
Material Properties ‣ Easy Bake

Action

Bake
Baking will run on the selected object(s) and create a new image based from any enabled ‘map type’ (diffuse, normal, gloss, etc.). Each object can have its own settings. A mesh will be skipped if there is no valid UV Map set or no map type enabled. All baked images will be based off the shader setup in the materials of the selected object(s). They will bake on to the specified UV Map and will be saved inside Blender, and may be saved externally.

Settings

Name
The name the image will be generated with. Leave this blank to use the name of the model

Width
The size of the image on the x-axis

Height
The size of the image on the y-axis

File Path
The location the generated image will be saved to

Diffuse
Create an image from the base color or texture of an object’s surface, without any ‘shading’

Normal
Creates an image from the simulated ‘bumps and grooves’ which an object may have from its normal map

Gloss
Bake the shininess of a surface. Shininess may be used to simulate a reflective or metallic surface

Emission
Bake the emission, which are parts of the texture that emits light or ‘glows’ 

Roughness
Bake the smooth or roughness of a material

Shadow
Bake the ‘shading’ currently being cast by light sources in your scene

AO
Bake the ambient occlusion, which is used to simulate subtle shadows created when objects are close together

Do not save
If this is true, the generated image will not be saved. If it is false, it will save a .PNG at the ‘file path’ specified. Note that if ‘Merge Objects’ is true, the image will be saved regardless of this setting

Merge Objects
When true, the baked images from all selected objects will be put into the same image, rather than each object having its own image. The settings of the ‘active object’ will be used, including the UV Map, so make sure that all selected objects have a UV Map of the same name