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[TheDevian]

Anyone familiar with Blender UDIM baking?

I was making a skin texture for Daz, and so I was baking to the tiles, but no matter how I name them, when I save the images, they always come out with the numbers rather than the names I gave them, meaning I have to rename them again after they have been saved anyway.
I tried giving it a title, I tried renaming the tiles after they were made, I don't really see any other options. Seems no matter what I do, the tiles stay numbered, not named.

 

[n00bi]

Anyone familiar with Blender UDIM baking?

Nop but im guessing its because of the nature of how udim works.
UDIM texture index is computed as 1001 + v*10 + u
meaning you have 10 images horizontal before a new row is uses.

But i find it odd that you cant prefix the names. example BodyColor_1001, BodyColor_1002 etc.
are you sure there is no prefix option you can add to the naming of the textures ?
I dont think you can name each index in the texture as its own name. with udim it kind have this number attached to it.
so you need to manualy rename all the textures or stick witht the numbers (with a prefix if possible)

 

[TheDevian]

Nop but im guessing its because of the nature of how udim works.
UDIM texture index is computed as 1001 + v*10 + u
meaning you have 10 images horizontal before a new row is uses.

But i find it odd that you cant prefix the names. example BodyColor_1001, BodyColor_1002 etc.
are you sure there is no prefix option you can add to the naming of the textures ?
I dont think you can name each index in the texture as its own name. with udim it kind have this number attached to it.
so you need to manualy rename all the textures or stick witht the numbers (with a prefix if possible)

The prefix is based on the image you create to bake to, you can set where the UDIM is in there. But you can't make it name them with anything but those numbers, even if you change it. I don't get why they let us change then names, if it won't save using it.

But yeah, have to rename after I save, and replace those numbers with the words in explorer. Then doing that, Blender loses them, because they have another filename.

Oh well, thanks for trying.

 

[n00bi]

The prefix is based on the image you create to bake to, you can set where the UDIM is in there. But you can't make it name them with anything but those numbers, even if you change it. I don't get why they let us change then names, if it won't save using it.

That sucks. maybe you found a bug

Have you tried putting the udim tag at the end?
From //Aqua Gray Glass - <UDIM> - Color.png
To //Aqua Gray Glass - Color - <UDIM>.png

And perhaps use underscore instead.
just to make sure there is no issue with how blender handles the names and defaults to just numbers if something is off.
its just a thought as i look at how c4d handles udim.

forexample:
foo_bar_1001.png
foo_bar_1002.png
...
is ok, and
foo_1001_bar.png
foo_1002_bar.png
this is ok too.

but not this.
foo_1001_bar.png
bar_1002_foo.png
...
but this is:
foo_bar_1001 .png
bar_foo_1002.png
...

There is a reason i hate udim
But its just suggestions. guess you have to dig into docs of Blender and see how its suppose to be done if possible.
i tend to stay away form udim if i can, while i get its pros and cons of it, i have never been a big fan of it.

 

[TheDevian]

That sucks. maybe you found a bug

Have you tried putting the udim tag at the end?
From //Aqua Gray Glass - <UDIM> - Color.png
To //Aqua Gray Glass - Color - <UDIM>.png

And perhaps use underscore instead.
just to make sure there is no issue with how blender handles the names and defaults to just numbers if something is off.
its just a thought as i look at how c4d handles udim.

forexample:
foo_bar_1001.png
foo_bar_1002.png
...
is ok, and
foo_1001_bar.png
foo_1002_bar.png
this is ok too.

but not this.
foo_1001_bar.png
bar_1002_foo.png
...
but this is:
foo_bar_1001 .png
bar_foo_1002.png
...

There is a reason i hate udim
But its just suggestions. guess you have to dig into docs of Blender and see how its suppose to be done if possible.
i tend to stay away form udim if i can, while i get its pros and cons of it, i have never been a big fan of it.

Possibly. XD

Yeah, being at the end is the default.

Yeah, I don't use it for much, but when baking skins for a Daz figure, there really isn't another option. So, I was hoping to make it easier.