I recently reinstalled my armor paint but I cant seem to find the bake tab anywhere, I had used it previously before reinstalling and just assumed it was moved somewhere, but I cant seem to get it open with the shortcut (k) either, going into the key binds I cant find the bake option bind anywhere either.
I thought this was a sort of graphics driver error or something at first but i used it yesterday just fine and I haven’t touched anything graphics related since then.
Hi,
Thanks for pointing it out. Over the years there was a constant confusion in regards to the bake tool and how it works so I have decided to rework it and make it more versatile.
Up to now it basically always stored the bake result into the base color of selected layer - so when ambient occlusion was baked, it ended up in the base color channel instead of the occlusion channel, etc.
Now you can access the baking features via the new Bake Texture material node. Once you press the Bake button, the baking result will be stored inside the node. You can further process the result as needed by connecting it to other material nodes, or connect it directly to the desired channel of the Material Output node and use it in the painting process.
You can also right-click onto the Bake Texture node and click the Capture Output button. Now the bake result will be stored in your Textures tab and you can export it directly to the disk from there if you wish.
I am hoping to update the manual, record a new video tutorial and update the release notes asap to make it clearer. Will continue to improve the baking, please feel welcome to report any issues.
Hi,
Thank you for the response, just checked it out and I gotta say I’m liking it much more than the previous bake tab.
I knew I was definitely moved somewhere but I couldn’t find it for the life of me 
Armor paint is very nice so far from what I’ve been using, I’m looking forward to it improving more in the future, I was expecting to have to suffer with an adobe substance painter licence my whole life but armor paint has saved me from that at only a fraction of the cost with results Im more than happy with!
keep up the good work 
