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Substance Designer 3.5 release note
(Changelog 3.5.1 to 3.5.2)
All platforms
Bug Fixes
- Imported images make the cooker crash
(Changelog 3.5 to 3.5.1)
All platforms
Bug Fixes
- SD fails to launch on XP/Vista systems
- Activation: hardware ID is reset on Windows 8 systems
- Switch node does not work properly in SD
- Batchtools on windows doesn't handle arguments encoding correctly
- Mesh resource autoreload makes SD crash
- PSD: 16 bits file import not supported
- PSD: mask background should not be always white
- PSD: resource not autoreloaded until it is instantiated in a graph
- Baker: high definition mesh not loaded correctly from the package
(Changelog 3.2.3 to 3.5)
All platforms
Changes
- Bakers: 16bit export
- Bakers: New World Orientation baker
- Bakers: New Height/Normal Map from mesh
- Bakers: Accellerate .obj loading
- Bakers: UV to SVG : use the material colors stored in the FBX when using the material id option.
- Graph: Profiler
- PSD/Layers Import/Link
- Performances: quick tweaking
- 3D View: Multi materials
- 3D View: Tesselation support (OpenGL 4)
- 3D View: Store materials parameters per mesh
- Remove sbsdb files
Bug Fixes
- The engine stops working with .sbsar in a graph at high resolution
- Tweaking node parameters is slower when the previous node is a subgraph.
- Baker: "Poisson" post processing fails in 4k
- Dependencies: path are updated for the first opened sbs only
- Graphical bugs when using mesh with UVs outside [0;1] range
- Crash when clicking on a missing mesh resource
- Link bitmap keep creating folders in explorer
- 3D View: 3d resources not displayed, 2D view opens automatically when displaying a 3d resource
- Create new SVG creates its own resource folder
- Drag&drop a resource from the desktop in the Explorer creates a folder called "Desktop_Resources"
- Remaining dependencies even after removing all package content
- New Substance: Set Size Mode to Absolute by default
- Bakers: typos corrections
Known Issues
- 16bits PSD files are not supported
- PSD resource not reloading correctly until it has been instantiated in a graph
Substance Designer 3.2 release note
(Changelog 3.2.2 to 3.2.3)
All platforms
Bug Fixes
- Library/Samples packages update issue
(Changelog 3.2 to 3.2.2)
All platforms
Fixes
- SD now works properly on Windows 8
- Keeps the layout for multiple tabs consistent after restart
- Drag n'drop from graph to 3D View works again
- Thumbnails generations work with chinese/japanese/korean paths
- Transformation 2D node: Angle icon is back
- Function: crash using get integer in "Color input" node size is fixed
- Dependencies: removing ghost instances now removes dependencies
- FxMap: edit an FxMap opens another context menu window is fixed
- UI: Wrong disposition after installation is fixed
- Maximize windows on Mac now works fine
(Changelog 3.1.2 to 3.2)
All platforms
Changes
With this release our main goal was to improve the user's experience with Substance Designer. That's why we totally rethought the Explorer View, and replaced the Gallery with a new Library view allowing you to manage all your resources.- Added a New Library View
- Refined Explorer View
- Improved performances
- Reduced global memory consumption
- Removed the Gallery View
- Added a New Substance Wizard
- Added an online documentation
- Added a statistics module
- Fixed many bugs
Substance Designer 3.1.2 release note
(Changelog 3.1.1 to 3.1.2)
All platforms
Changes
- EULA has been updated to add the new non-commercial terms
(Changelog 3.1 to 3.1.1)
All platforms
Fixes
- Fix designer crash when we tried to render 2k + bitmaps using the sse2 engine
- Fix paint in bitmap node. Now the 2DView is properly updated
- Fix broken extrude tools in svg editor
Mac OSX
Fixes
- Fix graph node display refresh
- shortcuts help displays right Qt::CTRL key depending on platform
Substance Designer 3.1 release note
(Changelog 3.0 to 3.1)
All platforms
Enhancements
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General:
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- Possibility to go in full screen for 2D and 3D views
- Node resolution are displayed in the graph
- New tab "News" in the Welcome Screen
- Automatic Check for updates
- Packages window is now called "Explorer"
Bitmap Paint:
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- New brush selector window
- Tiling Mode
- Stamp working on any node
Bug fixes
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- Drag&Drop now works on Mac OSX
- Import/Link choice now works after a drag&drop in the Explorer
Substance Designer 3.0 release note
(Changelog 2.5.1 to 3.0)
All platforms
Enhancements
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Substance Batchtools (in a separate installer) to automate tasks
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- A tool to extract information maps from meshes
- A tool to specialize and tweak SBS files
- A tool to generate SBSAR files from SBS files
- A tool to render SBSAR outputs to bitmaps
- All batching tools support 16 bits image import / export, as well as DXT image export
General:
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- Substance outputs can now be generated in 4k (with D3D10 and OpenGL engines)
- New GUI style
- Bitmap2Substance Tool is included as a separate installer
- New filters are provided
- Grunge Maps provided
- Bitmap Painting Tool
- Bitmaps can once again be embedded, with a lower memory footprint than before, making it now easier to share your SBS files.
- New baking process generating a position map from a mesh.
- Add color picker to select default color on color inputs
- License key and customer ID are now displayed in About Menu
- Windows version is now provided in 32/64 bit
Bug fixes
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- Tweak parameters reset fixed when you change the widget
- Fix channel invert on input bitmaps that were compressed in jpeg.
- Fix linked bitmap spoil when they are not edited.
- 16 bits image loading in designer now works properly.
Mac OSX
Enhancements
- Open GL engine available
Substance Designer 2.5.1 release note
(Changelog 2.5.0 to 2.5.1)
All platforms
Enhancements
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Package explorer
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- New "Show in explorer/finder" option on linked resources
- New "Relocate" option on linked resources
Baking:
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- Optional normal map can now be loaded from a package
- New "material id" colour mode to UV to Svg, the material id colours can be set in the scene objects tree
2D view
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- New Colour Information toolbox
- New zoom widget
- New lock option for image scale
3D view
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- Longitude/latitude environment maps are now supported
SVG
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- New options to copy/cut elements to New SVG
- New "Paste in Place" option
- New Polygon mode to the Extrude tool
Bug Fixes
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- Comments position in function are not reset anymore
- The 2D view position is now constant
- Changing Input default value updates the graph again
- Fixed crash when a mesh resource was missing
- Closing the Save dialogue window now acts as Cancel
Substance Designer 2.5 release note
(Changelog 2.1.0 to 2.5.0)
All platforms
Enhancements
- Link/Import mesh as a resource in sbs. These mesh can be displayed in the 3D view and used to extract information.
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New mesh information extraction feature. These information can be exported into bitmaps or svg and used in substance graphs. The following maps can be extracted:
- Ambient occlusion (depending on the GPU)
- World space normal
- Curvature
- UV to Svg mask
- Parametrization for FX-Maps is handled by the new substance engine *
- Graph image inputs and outputs can now be re-ordered in the properties view
- Graph Input, output and comments options are now merged in the same context menu as the atomic nodes
- New information panel in the package explorer
- Activation and Evaluation can now be done from another computer
- 3D view control modes can now be toggled from a toolbar
- Export outputs option on graphs explorer contextual menu
- Double click on a shape opens the color window
- 2D view content can now be copied to clipboard
- Delete links between graph nodes using backspace key
Bug Fixes
- 2D view pan and zoom aren't reset anymore when we tweak a parameter in the graph
- 2D view isn't reset anymore each time we display a new image in it
- We can now display and manipulate svg with boolean shapes
- Back shapes edited using merged modes don't come to front anymore in svg editor
- Explorer Fix crash when multiple resources are dragged and dropped in the explorer
- Add max width for tooltips to avoid endless tooltip display
- 3D file importer now handle pivot offset properly
- Invert zoom preference now affect 3D view
- Publishing sbsar with big sbs files now works
- Key modifiers and related actions are now reset when the focus is lost on the window
- A bug about some SVG that couldn't be displayed in substance integrations has now been fixed