MGMetroDave
Active Member
Hi all,
I've been trying to get my head round the command line options of the customtracksbakery.exe, and while I understand some of the options and usage, I've also got myself a bit stuck, mainly with trying to exclude/skip 'nodes'.
After failing to locate anything on the internet myself, I'm wondering if anyone has either some more in depth documentation (the command line --help option is a little sparse on detail and gives no examples) or some examples of its usage, or examples of "Baked Shadows Params.txt" or "Arguments.txt"? Also what is a 'node'? A material? texture? mesh? object?
Here's the info given when you use "--help" option:
-------------------
Custom Tracks Bakery 1.0.0.507
Copyright (C) 2018 AcClub
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the MS-PL License <https://opensource.org/licenses/MS-PL>.
Usage: CustomTracksBakery <model.kn5/model.ini>
You can also put arguments in a file "Baked Shadows Params.txt" next to KN5, or
to "Arguments.txt" next to CustomTracksBakery.exe.
-h, --help (Default: False) Show help message.
-f, --filter (Default: *) Nodes to bake AO for.
-s, --skip (Default: ) Nodes to skip.
-g, --grass (Default: shader:ksGrass) Nodes to process
as grass (sync AO and, optionally, normals,
with surface below).
-n, --sync-normals (Default: ) Nodes to sync normals with
surface below of.
-u, --surfaces (Default: `^[0-9][A-Z]`) Surface meshes.
-t, --trees (Default: shader:ksTree) Nodes to process
as trees (no self-shadowing, normals are
facing up).
-r, --regular-objects (Default: ) If for some reason you're using
ksTree or ksGrass shader for something
other than grass or trees, and don't want
to bother excluding them from --trees and
--grass, add them here.
--skip-occluders (Default: ) Nodes to skip from occlusion
calculation.
--common-kn5s (Default: ) KN5 files to load for occluders
(obsolete).
--occluders-kn5s (Default: ) KN5 files to load for
occluders.
--include-kn5s (Default: ) KN5 files to patch (only for
.vao-patch mode, for multi-KN5 mode).
-d, --destination (Default: ) Optional destination.
-o, --opacity (Default: 0.85) AO opacity.
--surfaces-opacity (Default: 0.6) Surfaces AO opacity.
-m, --multiplier (Default: 1.1) AO brightness multiplier.
--saturation-gain (Default: 1) Saturation brightness gain.
--saturation-input-mult (Default: 2) Saturation input multiplier.
--extra-pass-brightness-mult (Default: 1.1) Brightness multiplier for
second pass.
--camera-fov (Default: 120) Camera FOV.
--camera-near (Default: 0.15) Camera near clipping
distance.
--camera-far (Default: 50) Camera far clipping distance.
--camera-normal-offset-up (Default: 0.2) Camera direction offset, up.
--camera-offset-away (Default: 0.16) Camera position offset,
from the surface.
--camera-offset-up (Default: 0.08) Camera position offset, up.
--occluders-distance-threshold (Default: 30) Occluders distance threshold.
--merge-vertices (Default: 50) Range (in the list) to merge
vertices within.
--merge-threshold (Default: 0.1) Range to merge vertices
within.
--queue-size (Default: 1000) Size of rendering queue.
--sample-resolution (Default: 16) Sample resolution.
--hdr (Default: False) Make HDR samples.
--extra-pass (Default: False) Make two passes to
properly process bounced colors.
--bake-into-kn5 (Default: False) Bake shadows into KN5
instead of creating a small patch.
--special-grass-ambient (Default: True) Copy grass ambient from the
surface underneath.
-------------------
My current usage:
customtracksbakery.exe <path-to-kn5s>\models.ini --extra-pass --skip *roadsidetransition* --merge-threshold 0
"roadsidetransition" is being skipped as requested (it's not receiving ao shadows), but I'm not sure whether it's applying this to a material or an object, because both happen to have the same name.
Many thanks in advance!
I've been trying to get my head round the command line options of the customtracksbakery.exe, and while I understand some of the options and usage, I've also got myself a bit stuck, mainly with trying to exclude/skip 'nodes'.
After failing to locate anything on the internet myself, I'm wondering if anyone has either some more in depth documentation (the command line --help option is a little sparse on detail and gives no examples) or some examples of its usage, or examples of "Baked Shadows Params.txt" or "Arguments.txt"? Also what is a 'node'? A material? texture? mesh? object?
Here's the info given when you use "--help" option:
-------------------
Custom Tracks Bakery 1.0.0.507
Copyright (C) 2018 AcClub
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the MS-PL License <https://opensource.org/licenses/MS-PL>.
Usage: CustomTracksBakery <model.kn5/model.ini>
You can also put arguments in a file "Baked Shadows Params.txt" next to KN5, or
to "Arguments.txt" next to CustomTracksBakery.exe.
-h, --help (Default: False) Show help message.
-f, --filter (Default: *) Nodes to bake AO for.
-s, --skip (Default: ) Nodes to skip.
-g, --grass (Default: shader:ksGrass) Nodes to process
as grass (sync AO and, optionally, normals,
with surface below).
-n, --sync-normals (Default: ) Nodes to sync normals with
surface below of.
-u, --surfaces (Default: `^[0-9][A-Z]`) Surface meshes.
-t, --trees (Default: shader:ksTree) Nodes to process
as trees (no self-shadowing, normals are
facing up).
-r, --regular-objects (Default: ) If for some reason you're using
ksTree or ksGrass shader for something
other than grass or trees, and don't want
to bother excluding them from --trees and
--grass, add them here.
--skip-occluders (Default: ) Nodes to skip from occlusion
calculation.
--common-kn5s (Default: ) KN5 files to load for occluders
(obsolete).
--occluders-kn5s (Default: ) KN5 files to load for
occluders.
--include-kn5s (Default: ) KN5 files to patch (only for
.vao-patch mode, for multi-KN5 mode).
-d, --destination (Default: ) Optional destination.
-o, --opacity (Default: 0.85) AO opacity.
--surfaces-opacity (Default: 0.6) Surfaces AO opacity.
-m, --multiplier (Default: 1.1) AO brightness multiplier.
--saturation-gain (Default: 1) Saturation brightness gain.
--saturation-input-mult (Default: 2) Saturation input multiplier.
--extra-pass-brightness-mult (Default: 1.1) Brightness multiplier for
second pass.
--camera-fov (Default: 120) Camera FOV.
--camera-near (Default: 0.15) Camera near clipping
distance.
--camera-far (Default: 50) Camera far clipping distance.
--camera-normal-offset-up (Default: 0.2) Camera direction offset, up.
--camera-offset-away (Default: 0.16) Camera position offset,
from the surface.
--camera-offset-up (Default: 0.08) Camera position offset, up.
--occluders-distance-threshold (Default: 30) Occluders distance threshold.
--merge-vertices (Default: 50) Range (in the list) to merge
vertices within.
--merge-threshold (Default: 0.1) Range to merge vertices
within.
--queue-size (Default: 1000) Size of rendering queue.
--sample-resolution (Default: 16) Sample resolution.
--hdr (Default: False) Make HDR samples.
--extra-pass (Default: False) Make two passes to
properly process bounced colors.
--bake-into-kn5 (Default: False) Bake shadows into KN5
instead of creating a small patch.
--special-grass-ambient (Default: True) Copy grass ambient from the
surface underneath.
-------------------
My current usage:
customtracksbakery.exe <path-to-kn5s>\models.ini --extra-pass --skip *roadsidetransition* --merge-threshold 0
"roadsidetransition" is being skipped as requested (it's not receiving ao shadows), but I'm not sure whether it's applying this to a material or an object, because both happen to have the same name.
Many thanks in advance!
