Substance Designer 2017.1 Release Notes on Steam

Substance Designer 2017.1
29 JUNE	- JERC

For Substance Designer’s first number-less release, the bakers are undergoing a deep revamp and this is only the first step into making the baking process faster and more enjoyable in subsequent releases. Other updates include improvements to the graph, the HBAO filter and the Autolevel node.

More information in our blogpost(http://steamcommunity.com/games/449380/announcements/detail/1333478689246385248)[www.allegorithmic.com].

New Features

[Bakers] New UI

[Bakers] Keep a high def mesh cache until the baker window is closed

[Bakers] Add an option to correct skew deformation using a grayscale mask

[Bakers] Support use-high-poly-as-low-poly in from-mesh bakers

[Bakers] Make the Bakers window non modal

[Bakers] Store state to .sbs file in human readable format

[Parameters] Copy/Paste parameters from one graph to another

[Parameters] Add an option to copy a single Input Parameter (and paste it afterward)

[Parameters] Remove the function button on "Color Mode" parameter

[Parameters] Edit/Save/Display embedded parameter presets

[Parameters] Allow the user to copy parameters attributes when a package is locked

[3D View] No longer store last session 3d view settings in the registry

[3D View] Create new 3d resource from current scene

[3D View] No longer store the 3D view state from one session to another in the registry

[3D View] Merge the "Scene" and "Geometry" menus

[3D View] Seperate sRGB conversion from the fragment shader (you will need to update your custom shaders!)

[3D View] Add an option to create a new 3d resource from the current state

[3D View] Improve error message generated when #include fail into a shader code

[3D View][Explorer] Create 3D scene from primitives

[3D View] Display correct line number when GLSL shader compilation failed and code contains #include directives

[Graph] Be able to resize a frame from all corners/borders

[Graph] Store the Parent Size information on the graph resource instead of local registry

[Graph] optimize Node thumbnails generation speed

[Graph] Expose the memory cache budget in the Preferences

[Graph] Add a "Reset and View in 3D View" option on nodes

[Content] PBR Converter: Add new Arnold 4/5, Corona 1.6 and Renderman Presets

[Content] Optimize AutoLevel node and support HDR input

[Content] Optimize HBAO filter when GPU Optimization is off, add 16 samples version

[Cooker] output SVG unsupported feature to the log

[Cooker] Don't discard all the SVG resource if only one feature is not supported

[UI] Increase Description block size

[UI] Add file path information on graph instances

[Functions] Add "Open Reference" on function instances

[Functions] Display function graphs list when drag anddroping .sbs into a function graph

[Explorer] Create new 3d resource from primitive

[Engine] Add $tiling variable

[Curve] Add options to flip horizontally/vertically the curve

[Color Management] Read ICC profile on bitmaps

[Export] Add "Label", "Group" and "User Data" in the Pattern macro list

[Preferences] add the possibility to change the path for temp files

[Doc] Add MDL Graph format to the SBS format documentation

Bug Fixes

[Graph] Cache issue: view outputs in 3D View no longer works

[Graph] Clear cache issue

[Graph] Node thumbnails generation requests are not canceled when graph is invalidated

[Graph] Resolution issues after using F5

[Graph] graph view missing at launch

[Graph] Modifying a parameter generates multiple render call

[Graph] crash when using custom template which contains baked maps

[Graph] Crash when linked nodes in a graph function

[3D View] Parallel loading mess up with ProgressManager

[3D View] Rendering with iray at custom resolution image not full frame

[3D View][Iray] Material Definition is not kept

[2D View] Histogram is empty on LDR images

[2D View] Display issue when tiling mode is enabled

[MDL] parameters not exposed

[MDL] crash when moving a MDL from a package to another while rendering

[MDL] Don't ask where to assign the MDL when double clicking on graph

[Bakers] Crash when baking specific .obj file

[Bakers] Transferred texture from mesh / normal gives a wrong result

[Transformation 2D] Can't use arrow keys to change offset in 2D transform node

[Transformation 2D] artefact issue with low resolution

[Updater] Update report doesn't appear using when Ctrl+o/open

[Properties][Format] Some characters are escaped twice in UserTags

[Bitmap node] Ctrl Z doesn't work on 2D View

[Preference] Useless empty space in the Aliases tab

[Installer] Installing a previous version doesn't work the first time

[Parameters] drop down list: putting some spaces to the last value label freezes SD indefinitely

[UI][MAC] "about Substance" displays Iray info

[SVG] crash when importing a specific SVG

[Content] HBAO filter: Radius parameter behaves differently in function of the resolution (a new hbao_2.sbs has been added, old hbao.sbs is now deprecated)

Known Issue

[Bakers] Curvature from Mesh baker has been deactivated temporarily