Create and export model with transparent image planes with one UV map and one texture in Blender

This instruction just illustrates the process of a simplified model

 Step one, delete the cube🤡

Make sure the Image as planes addon is enabled and add images as planes (Import ->  Images as Planes)

 Create your model, add the necessary materials (texture image) like here the bark for instance:


in that case the bark should be UV unwrapped and then scale it until it fits:

Select all image planes and duplicate them (shift+D), then flip the duplicated faces (Mesh -> Normals -> Flip):
 

Select the joined object and make a new UV map (important that the new map is selected, but not necessarily the camera view (symbol) must be enabled):

 

 Join all the objects to one, Ctrl + J:


 

Make a new texture for the baked image:

 

Make a smart UV Project of the joined model:

 

  

Add the nodes for the new baked texture (for any of your materials!):

 

setup up the render settings:

 

 Before you bake make sure all objects are selected and the right UV map too! Set type to diffuse and deselect the light, then bake:

Save the image of the baked texture:

Then remove all the materials (because you just want one single one), add a fake user if you dont want them to disappear:

Then make a new material which serves as a slot for the texture you wanna add it to later, map the new texture to it:


Make sure that right settings are selected, if you have more than one collection it may export all of them:

 Blender will use the first UV map for the exported model, I suggest to remove all older maps to not get in conflict with them:

 the settings of the model in the game engine:

and the settings of the texture:

  

and on the gameobject (if you have the same retarded Engine like I have, Unity, sigh): 

 

Create and export model with transparent image planes with one UV map and one texture in Blender

This instruction just illustrates the process of a simplified model  Step one, delete the cube🤡 Make sure the Image as planes addon is enab...