The team has improved the baker and added a number of other cool goodies.

Marmoset has presented Toolbag 3.04 Beta Build 2. The team has improved the baker and added a number of other cool goodies. Let’s study the latest build. 

Highlights:

• Viewer animation support, and new shaders/features
• Revised baker UI, texture set support, many new maps and AO improvements
• Cascading shadow maps, better shadow quality, and new super high res option
• Volumetric (shadowed) fog
• Free desktop app for viewing .mview files included, will be free for the public as well

VIEWER

• Numerous misc bug fixes for animation system
• Animation support
• Multiple cameras
• Refraction shader
• Fog (shadowed)
• Shadow catcher object
• High DPI support
• High-res thumbnail option
• Reduced memory use
• Reduced mview file sizes

BAKER

• Skew/offset painting now supported across multiple texture sets
• Unique skew and offset maps per texture set
• High poly normal map detail now bakes to normals output
• Checkbox for active texture sets
• Cage opacity setting
• Dither setting for Thickness map
• Flip Y now works for preview material
• Object ID map no longer uses sub-objects
• All outputs should save as expected now
• More image file formats now available from save as dialog
• Non-square outputs no longer crash
• Padding with layered PSD output is now fixed
• AO bugs on Mac cleared up
• Lighting maps now work correctly with metalness workflow content
• Misc bug fixes
• Texture set support
• AO dithering and per-group Ignore Groups exclusion setting (for moving parts)
• Revised UI with configurable map selection and preset loading/saving
• Master tangent space setting
• Skew/offset map resolution setting
• Many new maps:

— Cavity/Convexity (these replace the R/G curvature option)
— Bent normals
— Thickness
— Diffuse/specular/complete lighting maps
— Object, Group and UV masks
— Alpha (from high poly mesh)
— Wireframe
— Albedo (metalness)
— Roughness
— Metalness
— Transparency (from high poly material)
— Emissive

SHADOWS

• Misc bug fixes
• Cascading shadow maps for directional lights
• Improved shadow coverage and reduced shadow artifacts
• Ludicrous shadow resolution setting

MISC

• Bloom artifacts resolved
• DOF blockiness cleared up
• DOF resolution discrepancies significantly improved, viewport now matches renders
• Shadowed fog
• gITF exporting
• Viewport performance boost button (temporarily turns off expensive effects)
• Camera near plane setting (helps with large scenes)
• Updated Substance support
• 16 bit PNG support
• 32 bit HDR render support
• Extended Python support
• STL model loader
• Misc improvements and bug fixes

You can find links to the latest version here.