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The Substance Baker Bridge gives access to the Industry Leading, highspeed Baking Toolset of Substance 3d by Adobe ® directly from within Mari.
The Bridge utilitzes either

•Substance Automation Toolkit

•Substance Designer 12.1 or higher

Currently no Support for Substance Designer 15
The Substance Baker Bridge currently does not support Adobe's latest Substance Designer 15.x (July 2025) release which introduced major changes to the baking system. Extension Pack aims to restore compatibility via a 6R3.v2 patch in the coming months.
If you have older versions of Designer available you can point to them via the SAT_INSTALL_PATH Environment Variable which the Substance Baker Bridge will use.

•Ultra fast baking of Ambient Occlusion, Curvature, Thickness and many more.'Baking Overnight' is a thing of the past with this.

•Full GPU Acceleration where availabe, fast CPU baking otherwise

•15 different Bakers

•Per Baker Override settings (e.g. udim range, resolution etc.)

•Bake Previews

•direct import of results into Mari

•highres to lowres Baking and mesh-linking (e.g. you only want to get occlusion from a couch onto the floor but not the walls)

•Accessing & Configuring the Bridge for first use

•Baker Types

•Environment Variables

•User Interface Overview

o1 - Select Mari Objects to bake

o2 - High Definition Meshes

o3 - New Baker Default Values

o4 - Baker Render List

o5 - General Settings

o6 - Tool Configuration

o7 - Selected Baker parameters

o8 - Preview Area

o9 - Render Log

o10 - Presets

o11 - Bottom Row Dialog Buttons

•Special Bake Behaviors

oObject matching (High / Low)

oIgnore backfacing

oGPU vs CPU Baking

=>  Accessing & Configuring the Bridge for first use