Quick and Dirty game ready tree creation in blender Part 3: Baking Clusters and finishing the tree.

In this final video we bake our leaf clusters onto planes, then use the particle system to populate our tree.

[@lanerobey5800]

Great videos. I was drawing branches in GIMP to do this, but learning about baking is gonna make it so much easier. Just wish I'd found these videos before I started. Lol

[@unrealengine5-storm713]

It's always just blank :( Idk what to do I've gone over this so many times but clearly I am missing something

[@ryanz2814]

The image you bake always comes out blank?

[@unrealengine5-storm713]

@@ryanz2814 yea but I think I know why (sort of). First of all I haven't been following your tutorial from the beginning. Instead I am trying to do something slightly different. I was trying to find a tutorial for baking a texture onto a plane. Essentially I have a texture atlas of leaves/branches I've put together..then in blender I cut them out individually and make larger branches with them. From there I try to print the object onto a plane. The issue I think has to do with trying to print the diffuse while it contains an alpha channel. I tried messing with the shader settings and when I turned the emissive to 0 I was able to bake the texture...HOWEVER where there is opacity it does not properly transfer the color and you can see the outline of the meshes

[@Copel-mt8tb]

I just get cleared image, didnt get the diffuse bake, can you help?

[@TheBlackGamerPT]

try to increase the max ray distance to something big.
Like he does in 5:38.
It worked for me at least