How to Save a Material as an Image

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I am making some photo-realistic rocks in Cycles, and I made a material using nodes, and combined two images using a bunch of modifiers and then connected them to the rocks material node. How can I take the rocks material and save it as an image? I've tried to bake it, but I can never find where the baked image is. Thanks in advance.

Yes, i saw the images that i have imported to blender but not the Baked image. — RudyJD, Dec 04 '16 at 22:59
Baking writes the baked image to the image used by active image node of the material. This may be an existing image if you haven't setup one for baking. Read the third paragraph — sambler, Dec 05 '16 at 04:02

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 05 '16 at 00:14

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The Render output panel is in: Properties Panel->Render->Output

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https://www.blender.org/manual/render/output/output.html#output-panel

answered Dec 05 '16 at 00:14

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This is the output folder for rendered images. Im looking for where baked images are saved. – RudyJD Dec 05 '16 at 01:44
pretty sure thats the same thing – eromod Dec 05 '16 at 01:47
Edit: Deleted my last comment for some reason i can only select images that are being put into the node pipeline, not the end result. Any answers there? – RudyJD Dec 05 '16 at 02:27
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User Preferences->Render Layers-> passes is where you choose what gets baked. – eromod Dec 05 '16 at 02:28
thank you, thats what i needed now i can use the baked images – RudyJD Dec 05 '16 at 03:04

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 05 '16 at 06:27

One way to.save the material as an image is to create a plane object of an appropriate size and apply the material to the plane. Then create a lighting and camera set up you find satisfactory, render the image of the plane, and save the rendered image.

How to Save a Material as an Image

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