Getting set up for texture baking

Before this baby dragon gets any final textures, we'll need a preliminary material setup. This should approximate the texturing setups with flats and get a proxy set up for the texture maps that will be used in the final dragon. We can then supplement this lay-in with some starting lights and rendering for Eevee. First things first, we need to prepare the scene.

Preparing the scene for baking

Our starting process consists of a high-poly mesh for details, a low-poly mesh with UVs to capture that detail, and a cage mesh that helps determine the boundaries for their interaction. We'll be starting off where we ended with the previous chapter, so we need both the high-poly and retopologized...