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RenderMan can optionally bake pattern outputs to 2D or 3D textures by evaluating those patterns over an output manifold. Pattern plug-ins that wish to bake outputs should provide custom implementations of the RixPattern::Bake2dOutput or RixPattern::Bake3dOutput methods that return true. When in bake mode, RenderMan queries these methods to describe the output manifold and to initialize display drivers. For 2d atlas/UDIM outputs that set RixPattern::Bake2dSpec::atlas to true, RenderMan will query RixPattern::Bake2dOutput once for each UV tile.

It is possible to write a generalized baking node that reference bakes the output of arbitrary upstream pattern graphs. For referenceexample, see PxrBakeTexture and PxrBakePointCloud pattern plug-ins:

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