Tutorial: How to Set Up and Bake Assets in Blender

Learn the backing approach to assets in Blender from the Quixel team. Tyler will guide you through a quite complicated process of baking your asset and setting it up to export and work on texturing the mesh in Quixel Mixer.

The tutorial shows the workflow in Blender and includes the following production steps:

• Baking normal map
• Setting up a cag
• Rendering additional data to your texture bakes
• Baking material IDs, Ambient Occlusion, and Curvature maps
• Model Export

If you’re new to Mixer, check out this tutorial series from Josh Powers where he covered all the essential fundamentals of the workflow in the tool.