Designer 15.1.3 is now available. It mainly brings some improvements and bug fixes in the baking feature. A few other fixes concerns the 3D view.

Release date: March, 10th 2026

Full release notes:

Added

• [Bakers] Add a outputsize macros for the filename

• [Bakers] Avoid loading the highpoly mesh before baking

• [Bakers] CLI: Update the description of the 'output-size' option with size macros

• [Bakers] Convert input texture format to the requested format

• [Bakers] Disable 'Offset map' option when 'Use cage' is checked

• [Bakers] Display already baked maps when the baking window is reopened

• [Bakers] Keep the baking window open until all baking processes are effectively cancelled

• [Bakers] Migrate BindTexture function

• [Bakers][Settings] Set the 'Name filtering mode' default value to 'Parent name (Legacy)'

• [Bakers][Tooltip] Add 'Name filtering mode' value to the 'Match' parameter tooltip

• [Engine] Upgrade Substance engine to v9.3.4

Fixed

• [3D View] 'View outputs in 3D view' does not override existing assignation on graphs with single output

• [3D View] Cannot display UVs in some cases

• [3D View] Computed tangents appear broken for USD

• [3D View] Crash when opening the Renderer menu

• [Bakers] Cannot set distance greater than 1 when "Relative to Bbox" is unchecked

• [Bakers] Color baker takes excessively long to finish in specific cases

• [Bakers] Color: Crash when baking UV islands

• [Bakers] Distance and radius parameters ranges are too narrow when the value is absolute

• [Bakers] Failure when baking from high poly missing tangent and bitangents that are not required

• [Bakers] Material colors not correct in baker command line

• [Bakers] Multiple high poly meshes are ignored in some situations

• [Bakers] Normal: Black output when using anti-aliasing and diffusion (macOS only)

• [Bakers] Offset map path check reports unexpected failures when using bitmap package resources

• [Bakers] Offset map tooltip is incorrect

• [Bakers] Place resource into a mesh specific folder does not work

• [Bakers] Texture transfer: 'UV set' value is not restored as it was when reopening baking window

• [Bakers] Texture transfer: A grayscale input does not result in a grayscale output

• [Bakers] Warning for disabled inherited baker is not cleared when changing texture source in target baker

• [Bakers][UDIM] Offset map is only applied to UDIM 1001

• [Graph] UDIM 1001 is always computed whatever the UVTile that is used