Bake to Vertex Color enables users to bake multiple render passes directly to vertex colours, including diffuse, emission, and ambient occlusion. It benefits game asset workflows by increasing performance by decreasing the need for heavy texture maps. Creating custom shaders in the Cycles rendering engine provides a multitude of possibilities for both artists and developers.

Daniel Bystedt – Bake To Vertex Color Features

• Baking Passes to Vertex Colors: This principal function enables you to bake fundamental lighting and material data, such as diffuse, emission, or ambient occlusion, directly to the vertex colour sphere of your mesh.
• Rendering Efficiency: This approach uses a vertex shader to perform complex lighting calculations, which minimizes the rendering burden and is most useful for real-time scenarios.
• Creative Flexibility: The baked vertex colour data can be used in custom shaders for advanced lighting effects, material changes, and other styles.
• Optimized Game Assets: By merging the material setup on the mesh with the game engine, the game assets occupy less space and load faster.
• Versatile Workflow: The new approach with Blender’s Cycles renderer gives more power and flexibility with a stunning appearance of the assets.

Preview Bake To Vertex Color Addon For Blender

Image 1: It enables the baking of various render passes directly to vertex colors, optimizing workflows for game asset creation.

Image 2: By integrating with custom shaders in Cycles, it offers endless creative possibilities for enhancing visual output.