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Version 4.1 | Substance 3D Sampler

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    5. Importing Resources
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    8. Export
      1. Export overview
      2. Export Window
      3. Default Presets
        1. Default Presets overview
        2. Arnold 5
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        5. Enscape - Revit
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        13. Unreal Engine 4
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      4. Managing custom presets
      5. Managing Presets
  4. Interface
    1. Interface overview
    2. The Home Screen
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    5. Panels
      1. Panels overview
      2. Project panel
      3. Assets panel
      4. Layers panel
      5. Properties panel
      6. Viewer Settings panel
      7. Shader Settings panel
      8. Channel Settings panel
      9. Metadata panel
      10. Export panel
      11. Physical Size Panel
      12. Exposed Parameters Panel
      13. Resources
    6. Tools and Widgets
      1. Tools and Widgets overview
      2. Sliders
      3. Color Picker
    7. Preferences
      1. Preferences overview
      2. Normal Format
      3. Layer Resolution
  5. Filters
    1. Filters overview
    2. Custom Filters
    3. Compound Filters
    4. Generators
      1. Generators overview
      2. Atlas Scatter
      3. Brickwall
      4. Cloth Weave
      5. Decal
      6. Embossing
      7. Embroidery
      8. Floor Tiles
      9. Gravel
      10. Panel
      11. Parquet
      12. Pattern
      13. Pavement
      14. Perforate
      15. Quilt Stitch
      16. Splatter
      17. Stonewall
      18. Surface Relief
      19. Weave
    5. Adjustments
      1. Adjustments overview
      2. Blur
      3. Brightness/Contrast
      4. Colorize
      5. Color Replace
      6. Color Variation
      7. Equalize
      8. Fill
      9. Hue/Saturation
      10. Invert
      11. Sharpen
      12. Vibrance
    6. Tools
      1. Tools overview
      2. Atlas Creator
      3. Atlas Splitter
      4. Channels Generation
      5. Channel Switch
      6. Clone Stamp
      7. Crop tool
      8. Delight (AI Powered)
      9. Height to AO
      10. Height to Normal
      11. Image To Material
      12. Make it Tile
      13. Match
      14. Multiangle To Material
      15. Normal to Height
      16. Paint Wrap *missing*
      17. PBR Validate
      18. Perspective Correction
      19. Tiling
      20. Transform
      21. Warp
      22. Warp Transform
      23. Upscale
    7. HDRI Tools
      1. HDRI Tools overview
      2. Color Temperature Adjustment
      3. Exposure
      4. Exposure Preview
      5. HDR Merge
      6. Line Light
      7. Nadir Extract
      8. Nadir Patch
      9. Panorama Patch
      10. Plane Light
      11. Shape Light
      12. Sphere Light
      13. Straighten Horizon
    8. Wear and Finish
      1. Wear and Finish overview
      2. Corrode
      3. Cracks
      4. Dirt
      5. Discarded Gums
      6. Dust
      7. Erode
      8. Metal Finish
      9. Moss
      10. Oxidate
      11. Paint
      12. Rust
      13. Scratch
      14. Snow
      15. Stylization
      16. Water
      17. Varnish
  6. Technical Support
    1. Technical Support overview
    2. Exporting the log file
    3. Configuration
      1. Configuration overview
      2. Retrieving the installation path
      3. Update Checker
      4. NVIDIA Driver Settings
      5. 3D Capture set-up on Linux  
    4. Technical Issues
      1. Technical Issues overview
    5. Data or project issues
      1. Data or project issues overview
      2. Import Substance Alchemist projects in Substance 3D Sampler
    6. Filter issues
      1. Filter issues overview
      2. Image to Material and Delighter are missing
      3. Image to Material visual artefacts
    7. Interface issues
      1. Interface issues overview
      2. Fonts are not displayed correctly
      3. Main interface is transparent
    8. Performance issues
      1. Performance issues overview
      2. Color picker takes long time to open the first time
      3. Interface lags when interacting with the layer stack or other elements
    9. Stability issues
      1. Stability issues overview
      2. Crash when exporting a material
      3. Crash when using the Image to Material or Delighter
    10. Startup issues
      1. Startup issues overview
      2. Application doesn't start on Linux
      3. Crash at start up - Old OBS version
  7. Features and workflows
    1. Features and workflows overview
    2. 3D Capture
    3. Export parametric assets
    4. End to end Physical Size Workflow
    5. Generative Workflow
    6. Texture Import
    7. Texture Generators
    8. Use As Bitmap
    9. Adobe Standard Material
  8. Pipeline and integrations
    1. Pipeline and integrations overview
    2. Environment variables
    3. Substance Send-to
    4. HP Z Captis support
      1. HP Z Captis support overview
      2. Your first capture, step by step
      3. System requirements to use the HP Z Captis device
      4. FAQ for HP Z support in Sampler
      5. Known issues and limitations
  9. Scripting and Development
    1. Scripting and Development overview
    2. Manage installed plugins and scripts
    3. Create a Plugin with Python and QML
    4. Create a Script with Python
      1. Create a Script with Python overview
      2. Example Scripts
  10. 3D Capture
    1. 3D Capture equipment
    2. Camera settings - Exposure
    3. Camera settings - Focus
    4. 3D Capture lighting
    5. Cross-polarizing for 3D Capture
    6. Processing advanced 3D Captures
    7. Editing 3D Captured meshes
  11. Release Notes
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    2. All Changes
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      4. Version 2020.3 (2.3)
      5. Version 2020.2 (2.2)
      6. Version 2020.1 (2.1)
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      8. Version 0.8.1
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      10. Version 0.7.0
      11. Version 0.6.1
      12. 0.6.0
      13. 0.5.4
      14. 0.5.3
      15. 0.5.2
      16. 0.5.1
      17. 0.5.0
  12. FAQ
    1. FAQ  Overview

Version 4.1

Substance 3D Sampler 4.1.0 introduces new content with the Paint Warp filter and an improved version of the Embroidery filter. This update includes some 3D Capture improvements.


Release date: 28 March, 2023

Paint Warp

The Paint Warp filter lets you warp materials by drawing curves on the 2D view.
The Straighten option lets you realign materials for an easy seamless tiling workflow.

Embroidery

The new Embroidery generator lets you create embroidery patches from a single image vector file, or a drawing.
It can embroider up to 6 colors and combines several stitching technics.

Tutorials

Release Note

4.1.2 CANNOLI

(Released: June 20, 2023)

Fixed:

  • [Layers] Memory leak when tweaking Substance materials and filters causing crashes

4.1.1 CANNOLI

(Released: June 06, 2023)

Added:

  • [Engine] Update Substance Engine to version 9.0
  • [Interoperability] Send 3D Objects to Stager and Painter

Fixed:

  • [3D Capture] Applications crashes when 3D Capture renderer fails
  • [3D Capture] Crash when an image cannot be loaded
  • [3D Capture] Crash when reaching the Mesh Reconstruction step
  • [3D Capture] Crash when resizing the bounding box
  • [3D Capture] Importing masks following the convention doesn't assign the mask properly
  • [3D Capture] Rendering glitches when adjusting the bounding box
  • [3D Capture] Switching between version and toggling rendering options during 3D capture post process is slow
  • [3D Capture] Switching between versions during 3D Capture Post-Process step is sometimes broken
  • [Application] Crash at startup
  • [Application] Crash when duplicating a renamed material
  • [Application] Crash when opening a legacy .alch project without its dependency folder
  • [Application] Crash when plugging/unplugging a screen, computer goes to sleep, or is accessed remotely
  • [Application] Crashes and memory leaks related to non-persistent assets management
  • [Export] Choosing material format for 3D object file types that embed or reference textures should be disabled
  • [Export] Crash if something goes wrong during 3D Object export
  • [Export] Crash when exporting a .sbs/.sbsar file
  • [Export] Crash when importing custom preset that has the same Label but not the same file name
  • [Export] Exporting an environment light to a .sbs/.sbsar file sometimes does not work
  • [Export] Gltf/Glb export encodes textures in base64
  • [Export] Name text field does not work when refocusing
  • [Export] Preserve tiling does not work when exporting an Image to Material (AI Powered) layer to a .sbs/.sbsar file
  • [Export] When exporting gltf and replacing files, the list of files to be replaced is not correct
  • [Exposed Parameters] Random seed does not work in exported .sbs/.sbsar files
  • [Layers] Content-Aware Fill sometimes crashes when added for the second time
  • [Layers] Crash when computing a layer stack
  • [Layers] Image to Material (AI) disk cache does not work
  • [Layers] Possible crash when tweaking a layer
  • [Performance] Memory leaks
  • [Project] Crash when saving a project
  • [Project] Importing the same project twice in a row duplicates assets
  • [UI] Rounded buttons with only an icon are not rendered correctly

4.1.0 Cannoli

(Released: March 28, 2023)

Added:

  • [Content] New Embroidery filter
  • [Content] New Paint Warp filter
  • [UI] Add Export option in File menu
  • [3D Capture] Back button is now available on the alignment step
  • [3D Capture] Images Handle JPEG EXIF orientation
  • [3D Capture] Scripting - New dataset_info.camera property
  • [3D Capture] Add Linux support (see documentation)
  • [3D Capture] Verify read access of the imported images
  • [Onboarding] Learn - 2 new tutorials (Embroidery and Paint Warp)
  • [Onboarding] Updated What's New content

Fixed:

  • [3D Capture] Keep camera position when changing version
  • [3D Capture] Merge all groups of an object into one
  • [3D Capture] Renamed generated meshes into Original
  • [Application] Crash when trying to generate thumbnail of a non-existent image
  • [Assets] Trash bin icon does nothing in the Assets panel
  • [Content] Updating filters with material slots doesn't work as expected
  • [Export] Possible crash when exporting an asset with specific filters
  • [Export] SBS/SBSAR Export - image import layers had priority over image parameters
  • [Export] UE4 Export preset doesn't work with PNG
  • [Layers] Crash when dropping a material and a filter at the same time from OS explorer
  • [Layers] Crash when dragging any SBSAR file with any image file
  • [Layers] Embroidery opacity channel can be completely white
  • [Localization] Chinese language may be displayed by default on Linux
  • [Performance] Fixed a memory issue when removing a layer from an asset
  • [Project] Possible crash when saving
  • [UI] Add missing spacing on Version's menu button
  • [UI] Cancel button not properly displayed
  • [UI] Disable sliders animation for 3D Capture post-process parameters
  • [UI] The Material Creation Template window does not close itself when clicking outside
  • [UI] The filter quick accessor closes itself when clicking outside

Known Issues:

  • [Color Picker] Picking a color on a second monitor with a different resolution may not work
  • [Content] Shape light widget is not working in spherical projection mode
  • [Interoperability] Material with displacement sent to Stager will lose displacement controls

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