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Substance Designer 2018 Summer Update

Summer is finally here! And our Substance Designer release will definitely keep you from the sun. With a fresh new look and tons of new content, the Substance Designer Summer 2018 release will be your best material authoring companion.

You can find more information about all the new features and improvements in our blogpost

Full changelog:

Added:

  • [UI] New Style
  • [UI] New Sliders
  • [UI] Make floating windows really floating
  • [UI] Change Preferences Window layout
  • [UI] Library: remove filter bar
  • [UI] Library: remove selection display overlay
  • [UI] Add a message in the taskbar when the application is Autosaving a package
  • [UX] Properties: merge "function" and "reset to default" menus
  • [Content] New Shape Splatter (+ companion filters) nodes
  • [Content] Add Flood Fill to Color/Grayscale filters
  • [Content] New Flood Fill support: support shapes with holes
  • [Content] Flood Fill to Gradient: add Slope and Angle image input
  • [Content] Optimize the Auto Level filter
  • [Content] New Shape Extrude filter
  • [Content] Material Transform: add support for rotated normal maps
  • [Content] New Normal Vector Rotation and Normal Transform filters
  • [Content] Normal Normalize: improve result quality.
  • [Content] New Trapezoid Transform filter
  • [Content] New Quad Transform filter
  • [Content] Add Hemisphere pattern to Shape node
  • [Content] Add new Gradients with controls in the 2D View
  • [Content] Add UV output to "Cube GBuffers" node
  • [Graph] Frame: ignore title text larger than the frame bbox for selection
  • [Graph] Add support for in context edition of sub graphs (experimental)
  • [Graph] Creating Frame/Comment should affect the node under the cursor when using RMB
  • [Graph] Frame: ignore title text larger than the frame bbox for selection
  • [Graph] Reuse existing tab when opening a function already opened
  • [Graph] Create a new tab when "Open Reference" is used
  • [Graph] Function: don't display function properties when clicking on the background
  • [Parameters] Remove "Expose" button from fxmap graphs
  • [Parameters] Level: Add an "Invert" button
  • [Parameters] Expand the "Input Parameters" group when creating a new input parameter
  • [Properties] Add the package url info in the graph attributes
  • [Properties] Increase the description field size for output nodes
  • [Properties] Allow to enter Per Pixel Function of Pixel Processor even for read-only packages
  • [Scipting] New Python API / Python editor (first iteration)
  • [Bakers] Optimize geometry transfer during rendering
  • [3D View] Switch to OpenGL Core Profile
  • [3D View] Support tesselation/displacement on Mac
  • [Functions] Function Resource: list image inputs in sampler nodes

Fixed:

  • [Graph] crash when linking a node to another
  • [Graph] getting variables in graph random seed function does not work
  • [Graph] crash when drag and dropping noise in a graph
  • [Graph] crash when opening a specific graph
  • [Content] Result is different between Tile Random Color and Grayscale
  • [Content] Tile Random: Result changes when modifying the "Symmetry Random Mode"
  • [Content] Edge detect doesn't work with non-square resolutions
  • [Bakers] Artifacts while baking curvature using a UDIM mesh
  • [Bakers] Ambient Occlusion map from mesh is inverted while using a normal map
  • [Bakers] UV sets list should be restricted to available UV sets
  • [Explorer] crash when deleting resources while baking
  • [Transform2D] Crash when exposing Mip map level and Background Color parameters
  • [Transform2D] Misbehavior while exposing a Transform MipMap level
  • [PSDExport] PSD exporter doesn't export grayscale 32F correctly
  • [2D View] Histogram computation not working with 16F nodes
  • [PSD] Linked PSD are broken
  • [Cooker] Function in outputsize parameter is not correctly evaluated
  • [Export] Export outputs path should be the same as the package path
  • [Export] Export path is not saved using an empty pattern
  • [Templates] Missing group for Position in Painter template
  • [Help] command line help does not display --news on Mac
  • [Dependencies] Exporting twice after modifying a folder name doesn't work