Issues with Shadow Mapping?

Question

I'm trying to get a Shadow map for some armor pieces I made and I've been watching this tutorial on how to do it. But some of the options that I need to use to get a good shadow map aren't showing up in my Blender Program. This also includes the Bake tab in Render. Which I need to for the Shadow mapping process. I've done the UV map already but I can't do the shadow map until I know whats wrong.

Answer 1

This is because you are using Cycles. Texture baking is currently only supported in Blender internal.

This feature is currently under development, you can see some tests in the bf-cycles mailing list.

Update:

As of Blender 2.71, Cycles now supports texture baking. To bake a texture:

1. UV Unwrap the model

2. Add a blank image texture in the UV/image editor

3. Add a texture node to your material and select the newly created image

4. Ensure that the texture node is selected

5. Press Bake under Properties panel > Render tab > Bake.

Also see:

• How do I bake a texture using Cycles bake

• Andrew Price's tutorial on cycles baking.