Good practice for baking geometry

[Sseast 0]

Hello, 

I am trying to make a realistic render out of a candle holder I modeled.

How would you do to render the brownish burnt sides of my piece of wood ?

I was thinking about applying some coloring so that I can bake ID masks in substance.

 

 

But applying UV's is hellish, every red pieces are torn appart and I don't see my self fixing this by hand :

The texture is all stretched in Substance :/

Thank you,

Guillaume

Edited Sunday at 06:55 PM by Sseast

[carnlogt 0]

for better UVs have a look at the UV flatten node