Baking only gives me fully black image, what am i doing wrong?

Question

I followed the instructions to a t, but it still gives me a black image. Any ideas what i might be doing wrong or which setting i might have forgotten to change?

I do use the "diffuse BSDF" to bake as he said in the video.

Answer 1 · 2021-04-11T16:35:54Z

replied April 11, 2021 4:35pm

Can you post a screenshot of your Shader Editor (at least, the whole UI would be even better...).

Answer 2 · 2021-04-11T19:17:48Z

u

replied April 11, 2021 7:17pm

Answer 3 · 2021-04-11T19:19:33Z

u

replied April 11, 2021 7:19pm

I hope you can see everything you need to see

Answer 4 · 2021-04-12T05:39:12Z

replied April 12, 2021 5:39am

uuesomat I haven't baked shadows before, but I think it is, because you don't have the Image Texture Node, that you want to bake to, selected. You can't bake to a Colorramp ;)

Answer 5 · 2021-04-12T08:48:07Z

u

replied April 12, 2021 8:48am

i tried it with the selcted Texture Node, with the Diffuse Node selsected (as in the video), nothing changes. I do have a sun light in the scene so that is not the problem here. When i bake it combined it gives me some light pixels on the right side of the baked image.

Answer 6 · 2021-04-12T09:21:05Z

replied April 12, 2021 9:21am

This is what is essential for baking:

If you could provide a link to your .blend file (via Dropbox, or Googledrive, or so...), I will have a look, because apart from the fact that you didn't have the Image Node selected, I can't find anything wrong in your screenshot.

Answer 7 · 2021-04-12T10:12:07Z

u

replied April 12, 2021 10:12am

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h61I8BZeG4N38gwfYajeAfjgo8TWnxbT/view?usp=sharing

This Link should lead you to the .blend file. I continued without the bake 'til the end.

Answer 8 · 2021-04-12T10:24:53Z

replied April 12, 2021 10:24am

Bakes perfectly fine:

Look at the outlined Image Texture Node, that means it is selected.

Answer 9 · 2021-04-12T10:44:42Z

u

replied April 12, 2021 10:44am

Doesn't bake for me:

Answer 10 · 2021-04-12T10:45:58Z

u

replied April 12, 2021 10:45am

If selecting the image texture node is the only thing you did and it bakes for you that means...something has to be wrong with my hardware? Maybe the GPU cant handle it? That would be weird but who knows

Answer 11 · 2021-04-12T10:51:25Z

u

replied April 12, 2021 10:51am

IT WORKED. I switched from GPU Compute to CPU and then it worked! Who would have guessed that it is in fact the GPU that can't handle it. It's a Radeon RX 5700 with 8GB...and it cant even bake a shadow...

Answer 12 · 2021-04-12T10:56:14Z

replied April 12, 2021 10:56am

Glad you got it working!

I can't use my GPU, because it is too old...didn't think about that.

But that sounds like a good GPU, that should be able to handle that; are your drivers up to date?

Answer 13 · 2021-04-12T11:00:20Z

replied April 12, 2021 11:00am

Are you using Optix?

Answer 14 · 2021-04-12T11:23:15Z

u

replied April 12, 2021 11:23am

Im not using OptiX, im using OpenCL. But the driver was not up to date. I had one from 10.03.2021 or 3/10/21 [whereever you are from :) ]. The most recent one is from today. With that driver it works with GPU Compute...PCs are wierd.