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  2. User guide
  3. Glossary
  4. Getting started
    1. Getting started
    2. Activation and licenses
    3. System requirements
    4. Overview
      1. Overview
      2. What is a Substance 3D file?
    5. Workflow overview
    6. Shortcuts
    7. Tutorials & learning
  5. Interface
    1. Interface
    2. Customizing your workspace
    3. Home screen
    4. Main toolbar
    5. Preferences
      1. Preferences
      2. Project settings
      3. Version control
    6. Explorer
      1. Explorer
      2. Send to... / Interoperability
    7. Graph view
      1. Graph view
      2. Link creation modes
      3. Graph items
        1. Graph items
        2. Dot node (also Portal)
        3. Frame
        4. Comment
        5. Pin
    8. Library
      1. Library
      2. Managing custom content and filters
    9. Properties
    10. 2D view
    11. 3D view
      1. 3D view
      2. Material properties
      3. GLSLFX shaders
      4. Switching your shaders to OpenGL Core Profile
      5. Iray
    12. Dependency manager
  6. Resources
    1. Resources
    2. Importing, linking and new resources
    3. Bitmap resource
      1. Bitmap resource
      2. Bitmap painting tools
    4. Vector graphics (SVG) resource
      1. Vector graphics (SVG) resource
      2. Vector editing tools
    5. 3D scene resource
    6. AxF (Appearance eXchange Format)
    7. Font resource
    8. Warnings from dependencies
  7. Substance graphs
    1. Substance graphs
    2. Substance graph key concepts
    3. Creating a Substance graph
      1. Creating a Substance graph
      2. Graph instances / Sub-graphs
    4. Exposing a parameter
      1. Exposing a parameter
      2. Parameter presets
      3. Visible if: control visibility of inputs, outputs and parameters
    5. Graph parameters
    6. Inheritance in Substance graphs
    7. Output size
    8. Values in Substance graphs
    9. Publishing Substance 3D asset files (SBSAR)
    10. Exporting bitmaps
    11. Exporting PSD files
    12. Sample Substance graphs
    13. Warnings in Substance graphs
    14. Nodes reference for Substance graphs
      1. Nodes reference for Substance graphs
      2. Atomic nodes
        1. Atomic nodes
        2. Bitmap
        3. Blend
          1. Blend
          2. Blending modes description
        4. Blur
        5. Channel shuffle
        6. Curve
        7. Directional blur
        8. Directional warp
        9. Distance
        10. Emboss
        11. FX-map
        12. Gradient (Dynamic)
        13. Gradient map
        14. Grayscale conversion
        15. HSL
        16. Levels
        17. Normal
        18. Pixel processor
        19. SVG
        20. Sharpen
        21. Text
        22. Transformation 2D
        23. Uniform color
        24. Value processor
        25. Warp
        26. Output
        27. Input
      3. Node library
        1. Node library
        2. Texture generators
          1. Texture generators
          2. Noises
            1. Noises
            2. 3D Perlin noise
            3. 3D Perlin noise fractal
            4. 3D Ridged noise fractal
            5. 3D Simplex noise
            6. 3D Voronoi
            7. 3D Voronoi fractal
            8. 3D Worley noise
            9. Anisotropic noise
            10. Blue noise fast
            11. BnW spots 1
            12. BnW spots 2
            13. BnW spots 3
            14. Cells 1
            15. Cells 2
            16. Cells 3
            17. Cells 4
            18. Clouds 1
            19. Clouds 2
            20. Clouds 3
            21. Creased
            22. Crystal 1
            23. Crystal 2
            24. Directional noise 1
            25. Directional noise 2
            26. Directional noise 3
            27. Directional noise 4
            28. Directional scratches
            29. Dirt 1
            30. Dirt 2
            31. Dirt 3
            32. Dirt 4
            33. Dirt 5
            34. Dirt gradient
            35. Fluid
            36. Fractal sum 1
            37. Fractal sum 2
            38. Fractal sum 3
            39. Fractal sum 4
            40. Fractal sum base
            41. Fur 1
            42. Fur 2
            43. Fur 3
            44. Gaussian noise
            45. Gaussian spots 1
            46. Gaussian spots 2
            47. Grunge concrete
            48. Grunge Damas
            49. Grunge galvanic large
            50. Grunge galvanic small
            51. Grunge leaks
            52. Grunge leaky paint
            53. Grunge map 001
            54. Grunge map 002
            55. Grunge map 003
            56. Grunge map 004
            57. Grunge map 005
            58. Grunge map 006
            59. Grunge map 007
            60. Grunge map 008
            61. Grunge map 009
            62. Grunge map 010
            63. Grunge map 011
            64. Grunge map 012
            65. Grunge map 013
            66. Grunge map 014
            67. Grunge map 015
            68. Grunge rough dirty
            69. Grunge rust fine
            70. Grunge scratches dirty
            71. Grunge scratches fine
            72. Grunge scratches rough
            73. Grunge shavings
            74. Grunge splashes dusty
            75. Grunge spots
            76. Grunge spots dirty
            77. Liquid
            78. Messy fibers 1
            79. Messy fibers 2
            80. Messy fibers 3
            81. Microscope view
            82. Moisture noise
            83. Perlin noise
            84. Plasma
            85. Caustics
            86. Voronoi
            87. Voronoi fractal
            88. Waveform 1
            89. White noise
            90. White noise fast
          3. Patterns
            1. Patterns
            2. 3D linear gradient
            3. 3D volume mask
            4. Alveolus
            5. Arc pavement
            6. Brick 1
            7. Brick 2
            8. Brick generator
            9. Checker 1
            10. Cube 3D
            11. Cube 3D GBuffers
            12. Fibers 1
            13. Fibers 2
            14. Gaussian 1
            15. Gaussian 2
            16. Gradient axial
            17. Gradient axial reflected
            18. Gradient circular
            19. Gradient linear 1
            20. Gradient linear 2
            21. Gradient linear 3
            22. Gradient radial
            23. Height extrude
            24. Mesh 1
            25. Mesh 2
            26. Panorama shape
            27. Polygon 1
            28. Polygon 2
            29. Scratches generator
            30. Shape
            31. Shape extrude
            32. Shape mapper
            33. Shape splatter
            34. Shape splatter blend
            35. Shape splatter data extract
            36. Shape splatter to mask
            37. Splatter
            38. Splatter circular
            39. Star
            40. Starburst
            41. Stripes
            42. Tile generator
            43. Tile random
            44. Tile random 2
            45. Tile sampler
            46. Triangle grid
            47. Weave 1
            48. Weave 2
            49. Weave generator
        3. Filters
          1. Filters
          2. Adjustments
            1. Adjustments
            2. Apply color palette
            3. Auto levels
            4. Channel mixer
            5. Chrominance extract
            6. Clamp
            7. Color match
            8. Color to mask
            9. Contrast/Luminosity
            10. Convert to linear
            11. Convert to sRGB
            12. Create color palette (16)
            13. Grayscale conversion advanced
            14. Hald CLUT
            15. HDR range viewer
            16. Height map frequencies mapper
            17. Highpass
            18. Histogram compute
            19. Histogram equalize
            20. Histogram range
            21. Histogram render
            22. Histogram scan
            23. Non-uniform histogram scan
            24. Histogram select
            25. Histogram shift
            26. ID to mask grayscale
            27. Invert
            28. Lighting cancel high frequencies
            29. Lighting cancel low frequencies
            30. Luminance highpass
            31. Min max
            32. Modify color palette
            33. Pow
            34. Quantize color (Simple)
            35. Quantize color
            36. Quantize grayscale
            37. Replace color
            38. Replace color range
            39. Threshold
            40. View color palette
          3. Blending
            1. Blending
            2. Color (Blend node)
            3. Color burn
            4. Color dodge
            5. Difference
            6. Dissolve
            7. Linear burn
            8. Luminosity (Blend node)
            9. Multi switch
            10. Switch
          4. Blurs
            1. Blurs
            2. Anisotropic blur
            3. Blur HQ
            4. Non-uniform blur
            5. Radial blur
            6. Slope blur
          5. Channels
            1. Channels
            2. RGBA merge
            3. RGBA split
            4. Alpha merge
            5. Alpha split
            6. Pre-multiplied to straight
            7. Straight to pre-multiplied
          6. Effects
            1. Effects
            2. 3D texture position
            3. 3D texture SDF
            4. 3D texture surface render
            5. 3D texture volume render
            6. Ambient occlusion (HBAO)
            7. Ambient occlusion (RTAO)
            8. Anisotropic Kuwahara color
            9. Anisotropic Kuwahara grayscale
            10. Bevel
            11. Bevel smooth
            12. Cross section
            13. Curvature
            14. Curvature smooth
            15. Curvature sobel
            16. Diffusion color
            17. Diffusion grayscale
            18. Diffusion UV
            19. Directional distance
            20. Edge detect
            21. Emboss with gloss
            22. Extend shape
            23. Flood fill
            24. Flood fill mapper
            25. Flood fill to Bbox size
            26. Flood Fill to gradient
            27. Flood Fill to grayscale/color
            28. Flood Fill to index
            29. Flood Fill to position
            30. Flood Fill to random color
            31. Flood Fill to random grayscale
            32. FXAA
            33. Glow
            34. Mosaic
            35. Multi directional warp
            36. Non-uniform directional warp
            37. Reaction diffusion fast
            38. RT irradiance
            39. RT shadow
            40. Shadows
            41. Shape drop shadow
            42. Shape glow
            43. Shape stroke
            44. Summed area table
            45. Swirl
            46. Uber emboss
            47. Vector morph
            48. Vector warp
          7. Normal map
            1. Normal map
            2. Bent normal
            3. Facing normal
            4. Height normal blender
            5. Height to normal world units
            6. Normal blend
            7. Normal combine
            8. Normal invert
            9. Normal normalize
            10. Normal sobel
            11. Normal to height
            12. Normal to height HQ
            13. Normal transform
            14. Normal uncombine
            15. Normal vector rotation
          8. Tiling
            1. Tiling
            2. Make it tile patch
            3. Make it tile photo
          9. Transforms
            1. Transforms
            2. 3D texture offset
            3. Auto crop
            4. Cartesian to polar
            5. Clone (Filter node)
            6. Mirror (Filter node)
            7. Noise upscale 1
            8. Noise upscale 2
            9. Noise upscale 3
            10. Non-square transform
            11. Non-uniform rotation
            12. Polar to cartesian
            13. Quad transform
            14. Safe transform
            15. Skew
            16. Symmetry
            17. Symmetry slice
            18. Trapezoid transform
        4. Material filters
          1. Material filters
          2. 1-click
            1. 1-Click
            2. Bitmap to material light
          3. Effects (Material)
            1. Effects (Material)
            2. Height blend
            3. Material height blend
            4. Season filter
            5. Snow cover
            6. Water level
          4. Transforms (Material)
            1. Transforms (Material)
            2. Material transform
          5. Blending (Material)
            1. Blending (Material)
            2. Material adjustment blend
            3. Material blend
            4. Material color blend
            5. Material switch
            6. Multi-material blend
          6. PBR utilities
            1. PBR utilities
            2. BaseColor / Metallic / Roughness converter
            3. Base material
            4. PBR Albedo safe color
            5. PBR BaseColor / Metallic validate
            6. PBR Dielectric F0
            7. PBR Metal reflectance
            8. PBR render
            9. PBR render mapping
          7. Scan processing
            1. Scan processing
            2. AO cancellation
            3. Atlas scatter
            4. Atlas splitter
            5. Clone patch
            6. Color equalizer
            7. Crop
            8. Material clone patch
            9. Material crop
            10. Multi-angle to Albedo
            11. Multi-angle to Normal
            12. Multi-clone patch
            13. Multi-color equalizer
            14. Multi-crop
            15. Smart auto tile
        5. Mesh-based generators
          1. Mesh-based generators
          2. Mask generators
            1. Mask generators
            2. Bottom to top
            3. Cloth wear
            4. Dirt
            5. Dripping rust
            6. Dust
            7. Edge blur
            8. Edge damages
            9. Edge dirt
            10. Edge notch
            11. Edge select
            12. Edge speckle
            13. Edge wear
            14. Fiber glass edge wear
            15. Grease
            16. Ground dirt
            17. Leaks
            18. Leather wear
            19. Light
            20. Mask builder
            21. Metal edge eear
            22. Paint wear
            23. Selective dirt
            24. Sun bleach
            25. Surface brush
          3. Weathering
            1. Weathering
            2. Cracks weathering
            3. Fabric weathering
            4. Leather weathering
            5. Metal weathering
            6. Moss weathering
            7. Rock weathering
            8. Rust weathering
          4. Utilities (Mesh-based generators)
            1. Utilities (Mesh-based generators)
            2. 3D planar projection
            3. Material mesh data blender
            4. Material selector
            5. Mesh data combiner
            6. Triplanar
        6. Spline & Path tools
          1. Spline & Path tools
          2. Working with Path & Spline tools
          3. Path tools
            1. Path tools
            2. Paths format specifications
            3. Paths 2D transform
            4. Mask to Ppths
            5. Paths to spline
            6. Paths polygon
            7. Preview paths
            8. Paths warp
            9. Quad transform on path
            10. Paths select
            11. Paths vertex processor
            12. Paths vertex processor simple
          4. Spline tools
            1. Spline tools
            2. Paths to Spline
            3. Point list
            4. Scatter on Spline color
            5. Scatter on Spline grayscale
            6. Spline 2D transform
            7. Spline (Cubic)
            8. Spline (Poly quadratic)
            9. Spline append
            10. Spline bridge (2 Splines)
            11. Spline bridge (List)
            12. Spline bridge mapper color
            13. Spline bridge mapper grayscale
            14. Spline circle
            15. Spline fill
            16. Spline flow mapper
            17. Spline mapper color
            18. Spline mapper grayscale
            19. Spline merge list
            20. Spline render
            21. Spline sample height
            22. Spline sample thickness
            23. Spline select
            24. Spline warp
            25. UV mapper color
            26. UV mapper grayscale
        7. 3D view (Library)
          1. 3D view (Library)
          2. HDRI tools
            1. HDRI tools
            2. Blackbody
            3. Color temperature adjustment
            4. Exposure
            5. Exposure preview
            6. HDR merge
            7. Nadir extract
            8. Nadir patch
            9. Panorama 3D position
            10. Panorama rotation
            11. Gradient 2 points
            12. Gradient linear (HDRI)
            13. Line light
            14. Physical sun/sky
            15. Plane light
            16. Shape light
            17. Sphere light
            18. Straighten horizon
  8. Substance function graphs
    1. Substance function graphs
    2. What is a Substance function graph?
    3. Create and edit a Substance function graph
    4. The Substance function graph
    5. Variables
      1. Variables
      2. Built-in variables
      3. Get a variable value
      4. Create a variable
    6. FX-maps
      1. FX-Maps
      2. How it works
      3. The Iterate node
      4. The Quadrant node
      5. Using Substance function graphs in FX-Maps
        1. Using Substance function graphs
          in FX-Maps
        2. Iterate and $number variable
        3. Using the Sampler nodes
        4. Using the Set/Sequence nodes
    7. Warnings in Substance function graphs
    8. Sample Substance function graphs
    9. Nodes reference for Substance function graphs
      1. Nodes reference for Substance function graphs
      2. Function nodes overview
      3. Constant nodes
      4. Vector and Swizzle nodes
      5. Get nodes
      6. Sampler nodes
      7. Cast nodes
      8. Operator nodes
      9. Logical nodes
      10. Comparison nodes
      11. Function nodes
      12. Control nodes
  9. MDL graphs
    1. MDL graphs
    2. Main MDL graph concepts
    3. Creating an MDL graph
    4. MDL library
    5. Exposing parameters in MDL graphs
    6. Substance graphs and MDL materials
    7. Exporting MDL content
    8. Warnings in MDL graphs
    9. MDL learning resources
  10. Bakers
    1. Bakers
    2. Bakers legacy interface
  11. Best practices
    1. Best practices
    2. Filesize reduction guidelines
    3. Graph creation etiquette
    4. Performance optimization guidelines
  12. Pipeline and project configuration
    1. Pipeline and project configuration
    2. Project configuration files - SBSPRJ
    3. Configuration list - SBSCFG
    4. User preferences - Automating setup
    5. Retrieving the installation path
    6. Environment variables
  13. Color management
    1. Color management
    2. Spot colors (Pantone)
  14. Package metadata
  15. Scripting
    1. Scripting
    2. Plugin basics
    3. Plugin search paths
    4. Plugins packages
    5. Plugin manager
    6. Python editor
    7. Accessing graphs and selections
    8. Nodes and properties
    9. Undo and redo
    10. Application callbacks
    11. Creating user interface elements
    12. Adding actions to the Explorer toolbar
    13. Using color management
    14. Using spot colors
    15. Logging
    16. Using threads
    17. Debugging plugins using Visual Studio Code
    18. Porting previous plugins
    19. Packaging plugins
    20. Scripting API reference
  16. Technical issues
    1. Technical issues
    2. Warnings and errors
    3. Cannot create/load a project
    4. Application does not start
    5. Crash when rendering graphs
    6. Parameters not working as expected
    7. Incorrect image output
    8. 3D View issues
    9. User interface issues
    10. Python issues
    11. Substance model graph feature is missing
  17. Release notes
    1. Release notes
    2. All changes
    3. Version 14.0
    4. Version 13.1
    5. Version 13.0
    6. Version 12.4
    7. Version 12.3
    8. Version 12.2
    9. Version 12.1
    10. Version 11.3
    11. Version 11.2
    12. Version 2021.1 (11.1)
    13. Old versions
      1. Old versions
      2. Version 2020.2 (10.2)
      3. Version 2020.1 (10.1)
      4. Version 2019.3 (9.3)
      5. Version 2019.2 (9.2)
      6. Version 2019.1 (9.1)

Version 2019.2 (9.2)

Substance Designer 2019.2 delivers the new Dot node, HDR filters and strong optimizations.

Major Features

New Dot Node

The Dot node is a long awaited request. Its purpose it to redirect connections between nodes to reorganize your graph. Contrary to our previous redirection dot, this one can accumulate links and doesn't disappear when its connections are broken.

To read more about the Dot Node, see the Graph items page.

Improved Node Creation Menu

The Node Creation menu which appears when pressing "spacebar" can now define and list in priority your favorites. Some new behaviors around the menu have been added as well to make it easier to use.

  • Display favorites first
    When clicking on the icon next to the text field, you can enable or disable the listing of favorites first.

  • Add or Remove favorites
    When favorites are displayed, you can add or remove nodes in the list by clicking on the icon next to the node name.
    (Favorites can also be managed directly in the Library window.)

  • Open the menu when click and dragging a link from a node
    When click and dragging the connection of a node and releasing the mouse it will now open the Node Creation menu. The node created will then be connected to the link. The nodes available in the list will be dependent of the incoming connection.

New Techniques for Realtime Renderer

The realtime viewport of Substance Designer has been improved to support new rendering features: Anisotropy, Coating and Subsurface Scattering. All the new channels and usages introduced by these features are compatible with Iray as well.

  • Anisotropy
    Anisotropy is a property that defines how a reflection should behave in a given direction. It is often used for specific material types such as hair and brushed metals.
    To create an Anisotropic material you need two outputs in your graph with the following usages:

    • AnisotropyAngle: Defines the anisotropy direction. Goes from black to white to loop.
    • AnisotropyLevel: Defines the anisotropy intensity. Recommended values are 0.9 to 0.98 (grayscale).

    Note: Anisotropy is supported by all our default PBR shaders.

  • Coating
    Coating allow to define a second layer of material above the base material. It can be used to simulate car paint or films on metallic surfaces.
    To create a Coated material you can use the new Substance template "PBR Coated (Metallic/Roughness)" or add the following outputs in your graph:

    • coatWeight: Opacity of the coating layer.
    • coatSpecularLevel: Specular Level for the coating layer.
    • coatColor: Color of the coating layer.
    • coatNormal: Normal for the coating layer.
    • coatRoughness: Roughness for the coating layer.

    Note: Coating requires the new shader "physically_metallic_roughness_coated".

  • Subsurface Scattering
    Subsurface scattering simulate the absorption and diffusion of light inside a material. It is very useful for simulating skin and other organic surfaces.
    To create a Subsurface material you can use the new Substance template "PBR Sub-Surface Scattering (Metallic/Roughness)" or add the following output to your graph :

    • scattering: Controls the intensity of the diffusion of light inside the material.

    Note: Subsurface requires the new shader "physically_metallic_roughness_sss" . The scattering color can be controlled in the shader parameters.

Note:

All these new rendering features are possible thanks to a rework of the shader system of Substance Designer. Our GLSLFX format now supports the definition of "Techniques" which allows multiple pass of rendering. For some examples take a look at our default shaders available in : Substance Designer/resources/view3d/shaders

Improved Performances

Several improvements to the Substance engine (which jumps to version 7.2.0) have been made which are beneficial in several situations:

  • Caching of graph computations for faster tweaking
    Graph rendering has been improved with the addition of a new caching system. This make tweaking a graph much faster than before because we now skip unchanged nodes.

  • Improved Library loading time
    The loading of the library has been greatly improved thanks to the new cooking optimizations and decoding speed improvements. The library is now 2 to 8 times faster to generate.

New Content with HDR Filters

With this new release we introduce a lot of new filters dedicated to the manipulation of HDR environment maps.

  • HDR Merge: Bring together several LDR (Low Dynamic Range) photos to create one HDR image.
  • Nadir Patch: This node allows you to clone/patch the ground part of an HDRI while taking the spherical deformation into account.
  • Nadir Extract: This node is can extracting a texture out of an HDRI. It can be used to map a ground texture in a 3D scene.
  • Color Temperature Adjustment: Adjust the color temperature of an input image, including the support of HDR values.
  • Straighten Horizon: Rotate the latitude/longitude of an environment map. Depending on the shooting conditions, the resulting 360° panorama might not be straight.
  • Physical Sun&Sky: This node is an implementation of the Hosek-Wilkie Skylight model. Specify the sun position and it will generate a physically accurate sky panorama.
  • Plane Light: Generate a rectangular light as if it was a 3D shape. You can change its position in the 2D view, apply a texture and set the color using a temperature or RGB value.
  • Line Light: Generate a line-shaped light, and change its position in the 2D view. It has similar options to the Plane light except that it is designed for thin long shapes like neon lights.
  • Sphere Light: Generate a sphere-shaped light, and change its position using the 2D View gizmo. You can also apply a spherical texture to create distant planets.

All new HDRI Tools are documented in the Node Library section.

Release Notes

2019.2.3

(Released November 26, 2019)

Fixed:

  • [Bakers] Crash when baking using a skew map resource with an invalid link
  • [Bakers] UV sets other than 0 are not taken into account on Embree
  • [Bakers] 'Bent Normals from Mesh' outputs incorrect results with UV sets other than 0 on DXR
  • [Bakers] 'UV Set' parameters are reset to '0' value when reopening baking window
  • [Bakers] 'Position' outputs a black image with UV sets other than 0
  • [Content] Smart Auto Tile: sampling issue in 8k
  • [Content] Atlas Splitter: Shape Detection fails in some cases, precision parameter should be exposed
  • [Content] Pow does not return the right value in some cases
  • [Content] Flood Fill to index: incorrect result when published to sbsar
  • [Library] Crash while loading the session's first SBS package
  • [Library] 'Show Resources in the Library by Default' setting is ignored for resources imported directly into the Explorer panel
  • [Console] Unexpected message in the console when using the node menu
  • [Parameters] Cannot remove single entry in Output usage list
  • [3DView] the scene is not reloaded correctly when the scene file is modified on disk[Graph] Node menu filtering is incorrect when using Value outputs

Added:

  • [MacOS] Notarize the software to follow new MacOS Catalina distribution requirements

2019.2.2

(Released October 23, 2019)

Fixed:

  • [Graph] Node menu filtering is incorrect when using Value outputs
  • [Graph] Crash when displaying the node menu
  • [Graph] Search tool appears when using shift shortcut
  • [Graph] Crash when consecutively spawning node menus from value input connector
  • [Graph] Comments containing long strings are cropped
  • [Graph] Flow highlight is incorrect when creating a node using the drag from connector menu
  • [Graph] Crash when removing all graph items from scene while loading a different graph
  • [Graph] Crash when using to create node while using click and drag from connector
  • [Graph] Crash while using the 'Node Finder' tool
  • [Graph] Output pin color is incorrect in 'Material Compact' mode
  • [Cooker] Nodes downstream of multi-outputs nodes do not update correctly
  • [Cooker] Issue with Value outputs and passthrough nodes
  • [Cooker] Value Processor outputs wrong results when only a 'Get' node is used
  • [Content] 'Contrast/Luminosity' node outputs an Alpha value of 1.0
  • [Content] 'Studio Panorama' template has no description
  • [Content] Flood Fill to index: incorrect result when the input contains a wrapping shape
  • [Content] 'HDR Merge': internal exposure computation is incorrect
  • [Dot Node] Crash when using a level and a dot node
  • [Dependency Manager] 'Go to' action does not work anymore
  • [PSD] Crash when undoing deletion of multiple nodes which were included in the PSD Exporter
  • [UI] Crash when closing graph using the 'Window' menu and opening one again while one is pinned
  • [Gradient Editor] The 'Remove Key' button is too large
  • [Engine] Precision issue with sqrt() acos() and asin()
  • [Bakers] AO From Mesh: 'Spread Angle' slider has an incorrect value range when tweaked

2019.2.1

(Released September 20, 2019)

Added:

  • [Templates] Add default input nodes to Specular/Glossiness and to other templates
  • [Templates] Add PBR Anisotropy template
  • [3D View] Increase the Automatic Clip Plane Far distances
  • [3D View] PBR Coated: change default value for Coat normal inheritance
  • [Content] Atlas Splitter: add option for the "Auto Crop" feature
  • [Node Menu] Don't filter nodes without input

Fixed:

  • [Content] Atlas Splitter: some outputs are not cropped correctly when using the "Auto Crop" option
  • [Content] Material Height Blend: cooking error related to inexistent parameter
  • [Content] "Plane Light": pattern UV Mode does not work correctly
  • [Content] "Height to Normal World Unit": input is forced to 16bit
  • [Content] Unexpected shapes when using angular 'Bevel' node with no tiling on small shapes
  • [Library] Icons for sbsar are not visible in library
  • [Library] Using "\" for filtering Url no longer works
  • [Library] Filter values are case sensitive
  • [Library] Search filter does not work when "Compositing" is checked
  • [Bakers] Double-clicking specific cells and dismissing the change reverts them to incorrect values
  • [Bakers] The backend state text in the bakers window always shows 'GPU acceleration : enable'
  • [Cooker] Crash when processing an 'impostor' dependency in a graph
  • [Cooker] grayscale conversion has wrong output size when using value
  • [Explorer] Crash when processing "Publish on Share"
  • [Graph] Crash when opening a specific package
  • [MDL] Crash when using cast operator
  • [Templates] Output identifiers are not correct in the PBR coated template

2019.2

(Released August 29, 2019)

Added:

  • [Content] New ‘Panorama Light’ shapes
  • [Content] New ‘Panorama Nadir Patch’ filter
  • [Content] New ‘Panorama Nadir Extract’ filter
  • [Content] New ‘Panorama Straighten Horizon’ filter
  • [Content] New ‘Panorama Rotation’ filter
  • [Content] New ‘Panorama Position’ node
  • [Content] New ‘Panorama Physical Sun and Sky’ node
  • [Content] New ‘Panorama Gradients’ nodes
  • [Content] New ‘HDR Merge’ filter
  • [Content] New ‘HDR Preview’ filter
  • [Content] New ‘Color Temperature Adjustment’ filter
  • [Content] New ‘Blackbody’ node
  • [Content] New ‘Exposure’ filter
  • [UI] Node Creation Menu: display and manage Favorites in the menu
  • [UI] Add/Remove a node from the favorites from the Node Creation Menu
  • [UI] Node Creation Menu: spawn the menu when clicking/dragging a link from an output
  • [UI] Node Creation Menu: filter the content according to the current selection type
  • [3D View] Support Anisotropy
  • [3D View] Support Coating effect
  • [3D View] Support Subsurface Scattering
  • [Graph] Dot node
  • [Graph] Optimize graph rendering by caching cooking results
  • [Preferences] Change the ‘Cooking Size Limit’ default value to 8192
  • [Preferences] Add a toggle to turn the new ‘Tab’ key functionality on/off
  • [API] Add SDResource.getPackage() method
  • [Iray] Update to NVIDIA Iray RTX 2019.1.3 SDK (317500.3714)
  • [Explorer] Allow to link any type of file as a resource in the Package
  • [GradientNode] Press ESC to cancel the gradient picking
  • [Parameters] Remove automatic Upper case on identifiers
  • [Project] Add an option to specify if graphs and resources are ‘Visible in Library’ by default
  • [Presets] Automatically pin modified parameters

Fixed:

  • [MDL] Can't export module due to parameter type issue
  • [MDL] Exposed int is not visible when loading
  • [MDL] Crash occurring during MDL export
  • [MDL] Crash when modifying color of a material surface node
  • [MDL] void MDLGraphNodeControllerSelector::updateSelectorCurrentMember(const DataMessage& msg) is broken
  • [Graph] Incorrect link thickness in graph display
  • [Graph] Too many invalidations are triggered when tweaking parameters
  • [Graph] Crash when closing a package while two windows of it are open, and using in-context editing
  • [Function Graph] Warning doesn’t appear when closing function view
  • [3D View] Crash on 3D View initialization when camera projection is set as ‘orthographic’ as a default scene state
  • [3D View] Post-FX DOF stays enabled in Iray
  • [2D view] Brush selection window disappears when changing brush size
  • [2D View] Information panel: values are cropped with a specific layout
  • [2D View] The image is offset when minimizing and restoring the main window
  • [Bakers] ‘From Resource’ selection list is not filtered correctly
  • [Bakers] Crash when chaining ‘Color Map from Mesh’ and ‘Normal Map from Mesh’ bakers on Embree
  • [Bakers] Curvature Per Vertex baking results in severe artefacts
  • [Explorer] Can’t import UDIM resources drag and dropping it in explorer
  • [Explorer] Explorer window is not filtered correctly when linking meshes and fonts after linking unusual file formats
  • [Explorer] Resources are visible when graph has ‘show in Library’ set to ‘no’
  • [Content] ‘Pow’ and ‘clamp’ inputs are not in the correct order
  • [Content] ‘RGBA Merge’ node inputs are not labelled
  • [Cooker] Invalid connections of numeric values evaluate anyway
  • [Cooker] Assert when connecting an image input to an input value
  • [UI] Mouse cursor gets stuck in the ‘resize’ state in some particular cases
  • [UI] Right click in package view doesn’t display the correct menu on Linux
  • [Dependencies] File path of temporary resources is not correct
  • [Dependencies] Missing bitmap resource warning stays active after relocation
  • [Library] Some thumbnails are not generated
  • [Library] MDL files are displayed in the library
  • [Parameters] Crash when exposing parameters
  • [Parameters] Crash after recreating a new element in drop down list
  • [Export] 8K batch export fails
  • [Presets] Crash when applying a preset involving booleans in SBS instances
  • [Scripting] ‘Welcome’ screen still appears when using '--quit’ command line argument

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