RetroBaker

RetroBaker

Retro texture processing and baking for 3D assets.

Give your 3D assets a retro look with pixelation, unlimited palettes, dithering and baked shading—all in one focused Base Color workflow.

Import a model, adjust its textures while previewing the result in 3D, then export your processed Base Color textures as PNGs. Keep the original detail with an adjustable pixel overlay, or reduce texture resolution for a chunkier look.

Made by OverTen Games.

Features

• Model importing: Supports GLB, glTF, OBJ and FBX. Rigged models are imported as static meshes in their evaluated default/rest pose.
• Live 3D preview: Inspect textures directly on your model and switch between Original and Processed views.
• Flexible pixelation: Reduce texture resolution or apply a pixel overlay with adjustable block size and effect strength.
• Color adjustments: Control brightness, contrast, saturation and gamma.
• Palette reduction: Generate a palette from your texture or select an included preset. Adjust palette intensity to blend the effect.
• Custom palettes: Download .hex palettes from Lospec, place them in the Palettes folder and refresh the preset list.
• Dithering: Choose Bayer, Floyd–Steinberg or Atkinson patterns, with adjustable strength and pattern size.

• Model-based patterns: Anchor ordered dithering to texture coordinates, model height or 3D model position.
• Light-aware dithering: Let surface angle and light direction influence ordered dither coverage.
• Lighting and baking: Preview directional lighting, shadows and ambient occlusion live, then bake enabled effects into exported textures. Optional cached AO baking is also available.
• Material workflow: Edit materials individually or copy the selected material’s settings to all materials.
• Save your work: Save projects as .RBproject and reusable looks as .RBsaveset.
• PNG export: Export the current material or all materials, with aspect ratio and transparency support.
• Portable and offline: Extract and run. No account or internet connection required. Illustrated manual included.

Limitations

• Base Color only. No PBR channel editing, texture painting, mesh editing or UV unwrapping.
• Coordinates: RetroBaker currently uses Y-up, while Blender uses Z-up. When importing from Blender3D, make sure model is facing blenders front view and transforms are applied.
• Animation playback and editing are not supported.
• Live shadows and AO approximate the exported bake; exact pixels can differ.
• Overlapping UVs limit baking accuracy because one texture pixel cannot store different shading for multiple surfaces.
• Seam preservation and model-position processing support one UV tile per material, including supported offset repeat/mirrored tiles. More complex layouts may require a unique UV layout.
• Transparent cutouts are treated as solid occluders during CPU baking.
• Large models, textures and higher bake settings increase processing time and memory use. Assets exceeding the app’s safety budgets are rejected with guidance.
• Project files reference external models and textures. Keep those source files available, or relocate them through missing-file recovery.

Requirements

• OS: Windows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit.
• Processor: An x64 CPU compatible with the bundled Embree baking runtime.
• Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 with WGL_NV_DX_interop support and a compatible graphics driver. OpenGL version alone does not guarantee viewport compatibility.
• Storage: Approximately 200 MB after extraction, plus space for your assets, projects and exports.
• The required .NET runtime is included.

Getting Started

Extract the complete ZIP and run RetroBaker.exe. Keep the App and Palettes folders beside it.

Open Help → User Manual for the illustrated guide.

Windows notice: This build is unsigned, so SmartScreen may display an “unrecognized app” warning. Verify that your download comes from the official release page.