I'm currently going through the shading and lighting class and really love this format. Are there any more classes planned in the future or this is something that was tested and not beneficial for the cgcookie citizens? 

I am having an issue with baking out a single diffuse texture from my material set.

I have created an asset (kettle) that I want to be useable outside of Blender, so instead of nodes, i want to bake out the individual textures diffuse, roughness, transparency etc.

at the moment each material is applied separately to different spots and I have followed a tutorial on how to bake out the texture.

I have created a new image texture as the target and copied it into each of the materials making sure it is the selected node. I then go to bake and bake out a diffuse map with colour only selected.

However each time I bake no matter what I do only the grey fill gauge on the kettle get baked into the texture. there are no reds for the body or any other parts baked out.

I have tried copying the object and baking from selected to active (though i don't think this is necessary as the models are an exact match.)

Can anyone help me with a method for baking multiple materials into a single texture image?

Any help would be much appreciated.

I'm having a hard time animating the camera movement with the empty object. The camera (see the included video) is always turning on itself as oppose to do the rotation around the cursor axis which is where the empty object is....and also the empty object doesn't seem to impact the camera if I select it on its own....what am I missing?

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Hi, 

What they mean in the Blender manual about active data. Is active data selected objects to???

The Properties editor shows and allows editing of many active data, including the active scene and object.

For starters, how do you link all the files provided in the fps-animation_source-files.zip file? Which ones are we supposed to start out with? You mentioned something about how you modeled a rocket launcher, pistol, and rifle in some previous courses. I know your speaking to the older members who probably made it with you in 2.7, but frankly, you've left us newer users in the dust.

I'd like some feedback on my sculpted head. It feels a little off whenever I look at it.

Christophe Brejon released a free CG cinematography book: https://80.lv/articles/free-cg-cinematography-book-released