Anti-aliasing when baking textures?

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Is there a way to bake textures with anti-aliasing, or is there another process to do that?

Okay so I've read that the workaround is to bake at a higher resolution and than down sample (resize) to the desired resolution. — bonypoy, Apr 07 '22 at 07:49

Copperplate · Answer 1 · 2024-02-26T18:18:12.170

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Adjusting the texture's interpolation from Linear to Cubic only improves pixel filtering for renders, NOT for baking. Currently, the ONLY solution to have anti-aliasing when baking textures is to bake at a higher resolution (ie. 4096 x 4096) and then scale down to your final size (ie. 2048 x 2048) using an image editor (or use a Blender add-on like TexTools which does this internally). See further details here: https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/262852/39431

edited Feb 26 '24 at 18:18

answered Feb 26 '24 at 17:32

Copperplate

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Some addons like TextTools do offer anti-aliasing, though i bet it's using the same technique under the hood. – L0Lock Feb 26 '24 at 17:37
Yes, I believe TexTools is using the same method. Thanks for the link, that is definitely a very useful addon! – Copperplate Feb 26 '24 at 18:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 07 '22 at 17:38

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Render (bake) using the smart or cubic options. I imagine you'd need to float. Use .EXR for more definition for the antialiasing.

answered Apr 07 '22 at 17:38

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This doesn't seem to improve the sampling for me at all. – SleepyEngi Aug 29 '23 at 13:48

Anti-aliasing when baking textures?

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