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why is it called baking?
tomegan
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Map Baking with Blender Render
April 11, 2017 3:22pm
why is it called baking?
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Kent Trammell replied
April 11, 2017 5:42pm
I'm not 100% sure about that. To me it's representative of taking raw "ingredients" like AO information, Normal information, etc, and "baking" them into a final product, kinda like a cake.
