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i am using the addon simple bake for baking pbr maps for objects.

If i use External Data > Unpack all into files to export an FBX with image textures, blender is saving all images as .PNG except the normal map which is .EXR.

To save file-space i want to unpack as .PNG and cannot figure out to tell blender to always use .PNG instead of .EXR for normals.

The packed image texture has the following properties: enter image description here

This has worked before and suddenly i only get exr. A workaround is to save only the normal individually by Image > Save As (here is openEXR selected by default) and change it to PNG, but this is very impractical.

I also tried to set the default format under Output Properties > Output to PNG with no luck.

I hope someone can help me how to set blender up to always save the normal image in a specific format (.png for my case)

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I had the same problem. I noticed that when I created a new image to bake to, I'd left off the .png. I just created a new image and included the .png at the end and I was good to go.

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    Commented Dec 27, 2021 at 23:48

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