Baking out mesh-specific maps

- [Instructor] With our mesh properly linked to our…Substance Designer package now, we are ready to take a look…at the application's map baking capabilities and talk…a little bit about why creating custom data maps is such…an important part of the Substance Designer material…creation process.…To access the program's map baking properties,…we will need to come over the explorer panel in the UI,…and right-click on the name of the mesh that we imported.…From the list of options to pick,…we want to choose bake model information which will open…up the scene information baking dialogue for us.…

We have a drop down list here that lets us select by…material or by sub-mesh components, this being what…Designer will use to bake map such as ambient occlusion,…normal, and position to name just three.…With the list set to sub-mesh, let's un-check the…main geometry mesh, which means we will only bake maps…for the base mesh.…It's good to remember that we can expand the UI if needed…by left-clicking and dragging on the dividers.…