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# BakeAmbientOcclusion - ComfyUI Built-in Node Documentation

> Bakes an ambient-occlusion map from a high-poly mesh into the UV layout of a low-poly mesh.

Bakes an ambient-occlusion map from a high-poly mesh into the UV layout of a low-poly mesh. The output is a grayscale image in which white texels are open and dark texels are in crevices; it is meant for the Apply Texture To Mesh node's occlusion input. Connect the UV-unwrapped low-poly mesh and the high-poly mesh it was decimated from.

## Inputs

| Parameter      | Description                                                                                                                                  | Data Type | Required | Range                       |
| -------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------- | -------- | --------------------------- |
| `low_poly`     | The UV-unwrapped low-poly mesh to bake into. Must have UVs; the node raises an error if they are missing.                                    | MESH      | Yes      | -                           |
| `high_poly`    | The high-poly mesh that the low-poly was decimated from, used as the source geometry for occlusion.                                          | MESH      | Yes      | -                           |
| `resolution`   | Texture resolution in pixels; each texel receives an occlusion value. Default: 1024.                                                         | INT       | Yes      | 64 to 8192 (step 64)        |
| `samples`      | Rays per texel. More = smoother, slower. Raise if grainy. Default: 64.                                                                       | INT       | Yes      | 4 to 1024 (step 4)          |
| `max_distance` | Ray length, as a fraction of the bounding box diagonal. Smaller = tighter, more local occlusion. Default: 0.5.                               | FLOAT     | Yes      | 0.01 to 2.0 (step 0.01)     |
| `strength`     | Scales the occlusion. >1 darkens, \<1 lightens. Default: 1.0.                                                                                | FLOAT     | Yes      | 0.0 to 2.0 (step 0.05)      |
| `bias`         | Ray origin lift off the surface, as a fraction of the bounding box diagonal. Raise if even surfaces show dark blotches/holes. Default: 0.01. | FLOAT     | Yes      | 0.0001 to 0.2 (step 0.0005) |

Note: `low_poly` must have UV coordinates — this node never unwraps the mesh. If `high_poly` contains only one batch item, it is reused for every batch item of `low_poly`; batch items of `low_poly` with no faces are skipped and replaced with an all-white image, with a warning logged.

## Outputs

| Output Name | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Data Type |
| ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------- |
| `occlusion` | Grayscale ambient-occlusion image with values in \[0,1] (white = open, dark = crevices), one image per batch item of `low_poly`. Intended for the Apply Texture To Mesh node's occlusion input (packed into the ORM map / occlusionTexture). | IMAGE     |

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