Blender just added Baking in Cycles.

You can bake all data into your 3d models, including caustics! This is the one hangup I have been having with the engine I use

Now we can add photo realism to our game scenes, which will look much more AAA.

The latest version of Blender can be found here:

http://www.blender.org

If you happen to already have used it for something, I would love to see some examples here.

Anyone else excited about this, or can think of any implementations of it? I will try to do something ASAP and upload here.

In a few minutes (modeling included) I was able to get this result:

This is the downloaded scene from the tutorial. It is super fast too!

Blender just added Baking in Cycles.

I am getting ready to work on some small scenes to upload here. I haven't actually been using Cycles, mainly because it didn't have baking, and it was previously slower. But they have also given cycles a speed boost (slow computer, so I needed that). However, I am now using a Mac too, and it is lightning fast on the mac.

Only thing is, I either have to find a small macro or make one (or maybe explore for a bit) to export all of the baked textures and the model in one action. I wonder if I could bake the textures to the vertex normals.

We will see.

Why do you use that engine?

You don't like the way BGE works?

I think my main issue with. Blender is that its attempt at Node based programming is very weak, and the Python API is not as clear to understand.

I know what you mean with the nodes. I made a few little games with Construct2 and I couldn't see myself making anything really complex.

Regardless, I'll make one or two with nodes and one with python in the BGE just because I love Blender so much.

I can bake in reflections!

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