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Baker output is fully black or empty | Substance 3D bakers

Baker output is fully black or empty

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Issue

The result of a baker is a black or empty texture:


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Explanation

A black texture means the baker wasn't able to find the information required to output a result. For example the baking process didn't find the high-poly mesh to match with the low-poly resulting in nothing to compare against.

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Solution

  • Verify if the high-poly mesh necessary for the baker was properly loaded (refer to the log file/window for any errors).
  • Verify that the low-poly or high-poly meshes are not too big (more than a kilometer) or too small (less than a centimeter).
  • Verify if the baker was able to read/process the mesh (refer to the log file/window for any errors).
  • Verify if the Matching by Name feature was not properly setup (some objects may exclude each other and never overlap).
  • Verify that the low-poly UVs are within the 0-1 range.

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