# Baking maps in Blender #### About If you wish to bake material IDs, or any other type of baking (similar to what Substance Painter does) I recommend my favorite Blender plugin: **BakeMaster**. If you wish to bake just material IDs without a plugin, that guide is below as well. *Textools was my previous favorite but for now it only works up through Blender 3.2 although some contributors have forked the project to make it work with newer versions.* #### Requirements For SU students, **BakeMaster** can be downloaded [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g5GYDaz5Us7AL4nRNk9tMiLAE2sU--sh/view?usp=drive_link). Most of these baking tools make use of Blender's **Cycles** engine (not EEVEE). #### Tutorials Bakemaster introduction Baking just the ID map (no plugin)