Texture-Bake-Machine

Powerful Blender add-on for preparing and packing texture maps for modding workflows. It combines recurring tasks such as channel-packing, mMask/vMask creation, and texture atlas generation into one compact sidebar tool.

Features:
- Building Shader mMask creation
- Vehicle Shader vMask creation
- Custom Specular channel packing
- Automatic Ambient Occlusion baking
- Texture Array & Atlas creation
- Native Blender progress display
- Automatic and custom PNG export names
- English interface with German translation
- Read-only detection of official GIANTS shader files

Channel Packing:
- mMask / vMask: Red = Wear/Gloss, Green = Ambient Occlusion, Blue = Dirt, Alpha = optional extra channel
- Custom Specular: Red = Gloss, Green = Ambient Occlusion, Blue = Metallic, Alpha = unused

Compatibility: Tested with Blender 4.0.2, 4.5.9 LTS, 5.1.2, and 5.2.1 LTS.

Greatly simplifies and speeds up the texture workflow for creating your own mods.