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 believe it's for mesh names. I have: Code: --skip=AC* and all meshes with name "AC" at the beginning are skipped. You will also see what objects will be skipped in the protocol when you execute customtracksbakery.exe if I remember correctly
Many thanks for the reply, @Gunnar333, that's helpful. I was just on Goodwood Hillclimb a few minutes ago! ;-)
