Blender 2.5 Making a model low poly and baking textures onto it.

Change to 480p of course.
I didnt capture my mouse but you should be able to follow this tutorial fine. Sorry I got the new SnagIt and yup no curor showed for the video. Wont happen again.
I'm just learning all this so there may be a easier or better way of doing this tutorial. I made this to explain how I do it:)
The original model's parts all have to be joined together. In Object mode press "A" key and press Ctrl + J to join them all.
The model might get a error while trying to use the decimate modifier. Something like your model is a non-manifold or something. Make sure the model is a clean mess. Try to have no internal geometry, no 2 sided face(I think). Press Shift + Ctrl + Alt + M to see non-manifolds. Try and fix it if you can if thats the reason why the decimate isnt working.Try and merge if u can.
Most of all make sure to remove doubles.
You need to be in GLSL shading with a lamp when baking. As far as I know anyways.
Thats all I can think of for now.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Blender
• 2.5
• Making
• model
• low
• high
• poly
• baking
• textures

[marneebox]

why do you bother modelling if you already have te gnome on there in 3D and what does baking textures mean?

[TheDude3585]

@marneebox @marneebox The purpose of this video was to decimate the polys so its easier to build for making it a papercraft model. This method I show is kinda old now and I should do a new one. I would change a lot of things in the video. Baking textures pretty much burns the texture onto the model. Here is a better tutorial that came out after I made this.He explains it very well.

[TheDude3585]

@TheDude3585 At blendtuts . com he has a video on normal and texture baking.

[marneebox]

@TheDude3585 where's this tutroial link?

[TheDude3585]

@marneebox Tutorial on baking and normal mapping? Its here blendtuts . com

[AnKlMa]

isn't it the music from Fallout 3?

[TheDude3585]

@AnKlMa Ya its from Fallout. Glad u like it. I do a few things different now from when I recorded this video. For one I make sure in the materials tab that I check Shadeless. Doing your own UV unwrapping is probably better as well. Make sure you save the texture image file after it bakes so you dont lose it it.

[Sluggaboy1000]

Wow! Thanks you!

[BlenderInGame]

@EiriKatana Yea, that's what I do >.>

[marneebox]

@TheDude3585 anyway, how did you get that gnome model onto blender did you make it yourself or did you import onto the program?

[EiriKatana]

Nice tutorial! But you could snap the low-poly mesh precisely, if you pressed Strg+D, then "X", then e.g. "1" when copying it and then, to snap, "G", "X", "minus", "1"(negative of same value as before)