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Found 5 Skills
Bake texture maps in Blender 5.2 Cycles - high-to-low normal maps with cage/extrusion, AO, curvature, ID, thickness, base color/roughness/metallic from procedurals, ORM packing, OpenGL vs DirectX, margins, GPU baking, fixing skewing/waviness/seams. Use when transferring sculpt or high-poly detail to game meshes or converting procedural materials to textures.
Use when texturing, shading or look-developing in Blender: building a PBR material from a texture set, displacement, procedural materials, edge wear, dirt, grime, color variation, decals, box or triplanar mapping on meshes without UVs, stylized character skin (subsurface, pores), eyes and cornea, hand-painted stylized textures, texture painting or painting masks headless. Also when a material looks plastic, CG, waxy or blown out, color spaces are wrong, or EEVEE and Cycles disagree.
Use when UV unwrapping, placing seams, straightening or packing UVs, setting texel density, laying out UDIMs or mirrored UVs, or baking normal, AO, curvature, ID or displacement maps from a sculpt or high poly onto a low poly or retopo in Blender, including Multires bakes. Also when a bake has black or inverted patches, flat areas, cracks, seams, wavy lines or AO ghosts, bpy.ops.object.bake returns CANCELED, or uv.unwrap silently fails.
Use when polypainting in ZBrush (skin color zones, fills, cavity or AO passes, Spotlight), baking polypaint to a texture or vertex color, rendering a ZBrush model with BPR or Redshift, making render passes, a turntable or portfolio shots, or when paint looks like uniform beige or clown makeup, is blurry, is hidden under a texture or in Redshift, or a render is noisy, clipped, orthographic or bruised.
Use when turning a dense sculpt, scan, ZBrush export or AI-generated mesh into animation-ready or game-ready topology in Maya without a mouse ("clean up this AI mesh", "retopo this character", Quad Draw, Retopologize), testing it deforms before rigging (bad elbow or wrist bend, lids popping through the eyes), or unwrapping UVs, cutting seams, setting texel density, mip-safe padding, UDIMs, lightmap UVs, stacking mirrored shells, or preparing a low poly and cage for baking. Keywords: edge flow, eye and mouth loops, Unfold3D, bake prep.