#Affinity photo. bump map pro

Trying to 'bake normals' like this produces artefacts. If youlre not going tobe using the alpha channel on that face, save it without one. Save the visible result as your SL diffuse map. Color-to-alpha on the AO map and set the layer as a whole to 50% transparency. Tie that SL UV map to the image you're using as a bake target in blender so the islands are baked using the UV that SL will end up seeing.īake AO and Diffuse (influence ONLY from 'color' not any blender lighting so you get a 'real' diffuse map out) separately. Make a separate UV map for SL, this time planning on how your SL material faces will be laid out. Texture the model in blender, using as many materials as you want/need and UV mapping it to suit that process, ignoring SLs limitations. Here's my workflow - simple but seems to produce decent results inworld. Mind you, SL uses glossiness, not roughness, so you have to invert the generated map before applying it to the SL-bound texture. if you're using Node Wrangler just use the Connect to Output feature. For SL's specular map, environment (specular map's alpha channel) and glossiness (normal map's alpha channel), I edit the Blender materials temporarily to display the appropriate parts of the material directly as emission, bake an emit map, and then use an image editing program to combine them manually.įor example, if I was generating the material's roughness as a procedural texture connected in to the roughness slot of a principled shader, I'd instead plug that texture into an emissive shader and output that, i.e. Normal map bake luckily is simple, as it corresponds directly with SL.

#Affinity photo. bump map pro

I'm absolutely not a pro and there are probably better approaches, but personally, I set up a scene in a way that has subtle AO/shadowing, just enough for extra definition but no stark shadows or shine, and bake a combined bake (with all options selected, I've never had any reason to not have all options in a combined bake enabled for SL texture purposes) for the diffuse texture. That will, of course, look more dull for someone who isn't using advanced lighting, but I never found turning it off an acceptable sacrifice even when I used a 2012 laptop for several years. SL's diffuse and specular don't match to any single bake: baking in a lot of lighting/gloss into the diffuse texture will look nice from a single angle in SL in a controlled environment, but SL rarely restricts the view to a single angle or controlled environments, so my philosophy is to bake as little lighting/shadow into the diffuse texture as possible to just get a little extra definition going and let the advanced lighting shader handle the rest. Blender's materials do not map one-to-one into SL materials, so I'd say it depends.