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Greeble Bake earns its spot in the superhive library as a focused baking utility: it pairs with Random Flow but stands on its own, and covers normal, AO and depth maps through a single-button workflow. GPL-licensed and Cycles-based, it's a straightforward pick for turning geometry into reusable texture detail.
Greeble Bake is a Blender add-on built to bake details from geometry into texture maps. Using a primitive plane as a canvas, it produces normal, ambient occlusion and depth maps, among others. It was primarily created as a support plugin for Random Flow, making it easier to bake that add-on's random results, but it also works independently.
The workflow centers on baking every texture map with a single button. You can design on the bake origin object or the canvas itself, or place other design objects on top and bake from there. Texture map details can come from geometry, or from a colored pass and an emission. That lets you focus on the major shapes of a design and hand the finer details to textures, whether you're working on real-life models, fantasy or abstract art.
Greeble Bake can bake patterns, stencils or greebles, so you can build a library of your own texture details. It runs on Cycles and supports Blender 3.6 through 4.5. Online documentation and a demo video are available from Blender Guppy.
Greeble Bake is best for blender artists who model the big shapes and want to bake finer details into normal, AO and depth texture maps, either alongside Random Flow or on their own.
Greeble Bake is completely free to download and use.
Greeble Bake supports Blender versions 3.6 through 4.5 and is listed as Blender Extension compatible. If you run a version inside that range, the add-on should install and operate as intended. For versions outside that window, check the developer's documentation before relying on it, since compatibility beyond the stated range is not confirmed here. The online documentation on Blender Guppy's page covers setup details and can help you confirm your environment before you start baking texture maps.
Greeble Bake was primarily created as a support plugin for Random Flow, making it easier to bake that add-on's random results. It does not depend on Random Flow, though, and can be used independently for baking details from geometry. Whether or not you own Random Flow, Greeble Bake handles the baking side on its own, letting you design directly on the canvas or place other objects on top of it and bake. That flexibility means you can adopt it as a companion tool or as a standalone baker.
Greeble Bake uses Cycles as its render engine for producing texture maps. It bakes normal, ambient occlusion and depth maps, among others, from your geometry, and can also create texture map details from a colored pass and an emission. Because the baking relies on Cycles, that render engine needs to be available in your Blender setup. The single-button workflow bakes every texture map at once, and the online documentation on the developer's page walks through the specifics of the process.
Greeble Bake is listed as free in this catalog and is released under the GPL license. The developer's listing includes product updates and a period of support from Blender Guppy, but for current licensing terms and any conditions attached, check Blender Guppy's page directly. Licensing and availability can change over time, so the developer's own listing is the reliable place to confirm what's included before you download or rely on the add-on for a project.
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