I’m feeling better after reading this thread. I had assumed it was just me who was completely lost by the sudden transition in style between the videos. With the UV mapping and painting I had Blender open on one screen and was pausing the video and trying things out – this is a valid teaching/learning technique, it’s not just copying moves 1,2 and 3. I tried out different things, made mistakes etc. I’m a complete beginner here. To me baking is something to do with cakes! In the other videos new terms are explained. After a first watch of this video and realizing I had no idea what was going on, I googled some of the terms so know a bit more now. To me there is a real jump with this video and no clear relation to what has gone before. I tried to “bake” what I had previously created, so a painted texture on the monkey, it looked odd. I then created a blank bake image as you did and got that to work again on the monkey so that was a success. However, I’m still not really sure what baking is achieving in terms of the model work flow. I’m really enjoying these courses and have learnt a lot in a short amount of time, so this definitely is not a complaint, just a request to slow this one down a bit, include a bit less info and maybe link to what was done in the previous videos more.
