A must for the video game industry workflows
Updated May 16, 2025

A must for the video game industry workflows

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Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Marmoset Toolbag

Marmoset Toolbag is mainly used as a baking program for HP(high poly) to LP (low poly) in game assets in our studio. The ease of achieving controlled and good bakes is a must for the game industry, something we could never find in any other programs. We also do lookdev and final polished renders very easily as well, which is a plus

Pros

  • Baking with custom cages
  • baking by separate meshes
  • controlled skewing and hand painted bake definitions
  • very optimized graphically speaking

Cons

  • probably when you have an already done baking setup and you change the mesh, the reload takes a lot of time.
  • sometimes its very difficult to find errors in the bake because the beauty render in Marmoset Toolbag hides it very well. In the viewer of our texturing program is very noticeable so I have to go back and forth between them to fix bake errors.
  • I guess the texturing deature of Marmoset Toolbag is not yet something that our studio is willing to jump over to, we have a lot of missing features from currently industry standard programs
  • so the baking process from start to a good finish is about 90% more controlled than any other baking program out there
  • Achieving a good bake is much more easy for our artist meaning less time per asset correcting issues
  • its incredibly easy to learn, in a matter of hours an artist can be doing good work. so less training hours needed
I give it an 8 just for the sake that you can do pretty well bakes, pretty good realtime renders and those are like the key features of Marmoset Toolbag. But I dont give it a 10 because they advert a texturing tool while its still very raw on those terms, but overall excellent program for the cost
We use substance mainly for the control over the bakes, none of the programs listed above which are other programs we used that can actually do bakes, are nearly as good as Marmoset Toolbag. I can vouch for Marmoset Toolbag as the best baking program out there till the date, giving you almost complete control of how the bake is gonna end up looking and achieving it really fast

Do you think Marmoset Toolbag delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Marmoset Toolbag's feature set?

Yes

Did Marmoset Toolbag live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Marmoset Toolbag go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Marmoset Toolbag again?

No

Excellent for baking and rendering, the best and im not exaggerating.
not so good for texturing itself

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