Our powerful next generation baking solution sets the standard for content creation. We pride ourselves in proving that speed and quality are not mutually exclusive endeavours as we harness the power of modern hardware and push your PC to the limit in order to generate your content.

With the ability to bake Tangent Space Normal1), Object Space Normal, Tangent Space Bent Normal, Object Space Bent Normal, Derivative, Displacement/Height, Ambient Occlusion, Concavity, Convexity, Curvature (single & dual channel), Transmission, Vertex Color & Material ID maps, Knald can help give you the tools and functionality that you need to ensure that your project’s baking pipeline is the best that it can be.

Unique Mesh Caching System

Knald’s next generation baker features a unique mesh caching system where all meshes are processed and cached during the initial bake, to be then reused in all bakes thereafter.

This means that as long as the source files are not modified on disk there is no need for Knald to reload & reprocess them each time, which massively reduces redundancy in the baking pipeline & increases the productivity of artists.

Interactive Cage Adjustment (Push)

Interactively adjust (push) the projection & range cages quickly & easily for fast, seamless iteration with our refined ray projection interface.

Non-topologically Matching Cages

Unlike many other baking solutions Knald does not require matching topology between the low poly and imported cage meshes. This novel solution gives artists the freedom to adjust the cage manually without having to worry about inadvertently altering the vertex order, UVs or triangle count prior to export from their 3d application of choice.