BLENDER Complex Shadow Bake (Part 3) - Smoothing Hack | Quarantine Series 2-14 @BlenderFrenzy

Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

This is part 3 of 4 in which we will bake lighting from our complex object onto a single image. Here's a HACK to smooth out shadows of a low-res bake! Timestamps below. (Blender 2.90)

Level 2 overview: youtu.be/4SRs5P5A354

Previous video: youtu.be/OPrDIp-ebbw

0:00 - Preview & Recap
0:55 - Intro
2:03 - Save previously baked image to file
2:18 - Compositing
2:43 - Node Wrangler Add-on
2:24 - Blur node
3:42 - First Render
4:00 - Tweak settings, Re-render, & Save image
5:56 - Add blurred image to the pile material

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