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Switching to Automatic Cage disables Bake button

Explorer ,
Mar 12, 2025 Mar 12, 2025

I just upgraded to the latest version of SP and wanted to try the Automatic Cage
The moment i enable it the Bake Selected textures gets disabled even though it generates the cage in the preview . After this switching to any of the other Cage options keeps the button disabled , if i close the baking menu and then reopen it with my cage set to Distance Based it keeps the button disabled.
I need to close SP and reopen it for the button to come back as long as it was set to Distance Based.

I do have an error when loading the highpoly , it doesnt seem to be an issue when i baked with Distance Based Cage
[Scene 3D] [GenVertexNormals] : unable to compute normals because some triangles were too small in mesh Head_High1

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Explorer ,
Mar 12, 2025 Mar 12, 2025

i just fixed the compute normals error mentioned and still have the same behavior with the button being disabled

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 14, 2025 Mar 14, 2025

Im having the same problem. I have no errors.

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New Here ,
Mar 18, 2025 Mar 18, 2025

so wierd thing i noticed is ONCE it just randomly let me bake. and then went gray again...so id guess its some wierd UI issue?

not sure how this bug happened but its wierd how it at random let me do it...i can also see the blue bar under the model load stuff at random. but it always just goes back to nothin.

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Adobe Employee ,
Mar 21, 2025 Mar 21, 2025

Hi folks ! 👋

Does this issue happens all the time, or only with specific meshes/projects ?

We have tried to reproduce the issue on our side but so far we haven't faced a similar problem. If you can provide more details this could be helpful (like your log file, mesh file, etc).

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 21, 2025 Mar 21, 2025

Hey @Léna Piquet - Froyok 
It's happening in multiple projects for me with different meshes.
Its even happening on old projects that have already been finished in a previous version of painter.
Like @orze said, it also occasionally works, but then breaks again.
I unfortunately can't share a mesh file as its under NDA.
This is very frustrating, as it's an awesome new feature!
I'm also now stuck working on a scene that worked once with the automatic cage but can now no longer re-bake...

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 21, 2025 Mar 21, 2025

Now, even distance based is not working...
I'm totally bloked by this 

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New Here ,
Mar 21, 2025 Mar 21, 2025

i found the solution for me atleat! xD

it works for me if this seting is toggled on

orze_0-1742580831326.png

 

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 21, 2025 Mar 21, 2025

@orze You absaloute beauty! that works 🙂 Thanks so much 🙂

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New Here ,
Apr 02, 2025 Apr 02, 2025

I had this problem too loading an old file in lastest Painter. The file I opened was ReadOnly ( visuble in the top bar). Saving the file under a new filename remove this Read Only flag and I've been able to Bake again. Hope it help.

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New Here ,
Apr 14, 2025 Apr 14, 2025

I love you

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 14, 2025 Apr 14, 2025

I am having this issue consistenly but what seems to trigger it for me is if I use the edit -> re-import mesh option first, then try and bake again it will go grey on me. I have a mesh that needed some slight texture set/UV changes so I was doing refreshes on it and then baking again with new file and that seems to make it go gray. I am saving over my original low poly mesh with same exact name but slight changes which is what I have always done in past.  

 

What is odd is that if I leave the bake window open for a long time it eventually sometimes will come back to having the blue button again to bake... but requires sitting for 10 minutes or so on my end even on a fairly simple mesh and really high level PC. 

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Adobe Employee ,
Apr 15, 2025 Apr 15, 2025

Thank you for the details, we are going to check that out !

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New Here ,
Apr 21, 2025 Apr 21, 2025

I'm seeing something similar. Changed the UV layout of my mesh and re-imported. The loading bar is flickering at the bottom of the window and the Bake button is disabled. I've tried everything except re-installing SP at this point. No errors in the log.

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 21, 2025 Apr 21, 2025

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Have you tried orze's solution of checking this box? It works every time for me now with this checked.

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New Here ,
Apr 22, 2025 Apr 22, 2025
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I've tried that suggestion but with no luck.
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