Gradient Baker Component

Use the Gradient Baker component to bake a complex node graph of gradients down to a single static image. You can then use a single Image Gradient at runtime, instead of having the entire node graph computed every time, to optimize performance.

For example, suppose you have a complex gradient chain with a generator and multiple gradient modifiers.

You can create a Gradient Baker and connect its input gradient to the output of the gradient chain you’d like to bake. The Gradient Baker also needs an input bounds for where to sample the data. With both of those connected, the graph would look like this.

Clicking the Bake image button on the Gradient Baker component will then bake out a single static image that can be used in a single Image Gradient, which reduces the entire complex graph to only a single component.

The final optimization step is to select all of the gradients in your chain and mark them as Editor only. This will prevent them from being loaded/computed at runtime. You can optionally mark the Gradient Baker as Editor only as well, but it will have no effect because there is no runtime component for it.

Provider

Gradient Signal Gem

Gradient Baker properties

Gradient properties

GradientBakerRequestBus

Use the following request functions with the GradientBakerRequestBus EBus interface to communicate with the Gradient Baker component.