Hi everyone, last week we reduced the price of Bitmap2Material from $99.99 to $49.99 and the Pro version from $149.99 to 74.99$.

Bitmap2Material, after 6 years of loyal service, is reaching its end of life and will not receive any further update. As you may be aware, Substance Alchemist, available through the Substance subscription, now includes a similar version of Bitmap2Material and will add a new AI powered Image to Material feature in its next update.

This new feature, like Bitmap2Material, allows you to generate a full material from a single image but rather than using simple image processing, the AI can recognize shapes and objects in the image and generate a normal map and other channels from it. The quality generated by this new tools is incredible and miles better than Bitmap2Material can ever hope to produce, so this is where our efforts will be focused from now on.

You can see a few results from our April keynote here.

We want to thank all of you for using Bitmap2Material over the past few years, we never thought this little handy tool would have such success and we hope you will be able to try out the new AI Image to Material very soon!

Hi everyone! Steam just released a new feature allowing developers and creators to have their own homepage, so we made one!

You'll find on this page links to our current tools and following us will allow you to receive notifications whenever we publish a new update, have any sale or even release an entirely new app, who knows? ːsteamhappyː

Allegorithmic's Substance Homepage

If you're a creator and use the Substance tools to build cool stuff, we'd like to hear from you too and we'll follow you back!

Hi everyone! Steam just released a new feature allowing developers and creators to have their own homepage, so we made one!

You'll find on this page links to our current tools and following us will allow you to receive notifications whenever we publish a new update, have any sale or even release an entirely new app, who knows? ːsteamhappyː

Allegorithmic's Substance Homepage

If you're a creator and use the Substance tools to build cool stuff, we'd like to hear from you too and we'll follow you back!

A new hotfix update has been released for Substance Painter 2.

Fixes

• Version checker pop-up shouldn't be visible at launch
  
• [Export] PSD files have their groups locked when opened in Photoshop CS6

Hi everyone,

You may have noticed that there was a lot of confusion around the loyalty coupons to upgrade from Substance Painter 2 to Substance Painter 2018 during the sale.

This was caused my multiple issues and misunderstandings colliding at the worst possible time and we are sorry for the trouble that ensued.

The upgrade coupon was supposed to let you upgrade for 33% of the original price ($50 instead $149). Since unfortunately we didn't manage to have this coupon properly available by the end of the sale, we are setting up a new -66% discount which will be available until the end of the week.

The discount will be applied automatically to the purchase price on the Store page for Substance Painter 2018.

As the Substance Painter 2 release cycle ends, a new one begins with Substance Painter 2018.

Substance Painter 2018 will give you access to 12 months of free updates and new features, including tomorrows 2017.4 update introducing Layer Instances and a new Live link with Unreal Engine 4.

Substance Painter 2018 is on sale right now during Black Friday with 34% off!
For those of you who want to upgrade from Substance Painter 2.x to Substance Painter 2018, you should receive loyalty coupons in the next few hours, and the upgrade is also on sale until Monday!

Thank you all for using our tools, creating amazing pieces of art and for helping us make Substance Painter the industry standard for texturing!

EDIT: The upgrade coupons are being handled by Valve directly and we hope they will be distributed on Monday.

Substance Painter 2017.3.1 hot-fix release is now available!
Multiple crahses and regression introduced with 2017.3 should now be fixed.

Changes

• [Export] Allow to export the mesh from a project
  
• [Shelf] Remove "Sub-Shelf" from the tabs titles
  
• Save post-process settings in templates
  
• Make the TDR message more understandable
  
• Improve Settings window to report errors

Fixes

• Crash when deleting several sub-shelves
  
• Crash when switching from a level to something else during an engine computation
  
• [Mac] Crash on Intel GPU during engine computations
  
• [Mac][Viewport] Bad performances when dithering is enabled
  
• [Mac] MacOS 10.13 is recognized as "Unknown version" in the log file
  
• [Baker] Baking with a cage doesn't work anymore
  
• [Layers] Ctrl + C shortcut (copy action) doesn't work anymore
  
• [Layers] Pasting layers doesn't refresh UI with anchor's references
  
• [Anchor] Duplicate or Copy/Paste Layer with References breaks links
  
• [Export] 8K export can crash or deadlock application in some cases
  
• [Export] Multiple issues in generated glTF file format
  
• [Import] Re-importing a mesh with the same filename doesn't work anymore
  
• [Plugin] Auto-save window always appear on top of everything
  
• [UI] Infinite loop when you Press "Escape" on the TDR Dialog
  
• [UI] Reset UI display a second title bar on the shelf window

Substance Painter 2017.3 is here! It introduces 2 new export options, a long awaited auto-backup feature, UI improvements and a new Gradient tool..

More details...

Changes:

• [Export] Allow to export mesh and textures for Adobe Project Felix
• [Export] Allow to export into glTF file format
• [Engine] Optimize textures size in VRAM by using block compression
• [Viewport] Be able to drag and drop a mesh or project in the viewport
• [UI] Improve warning message about TDR
• [UI] Log should be displayed only upon request
• [UI] Allow to clear the content of the log window
• [UI] Display warnings and errors in the status bar
• [UI] Display Tabs on top as in web browsers
• [UI] Improve "not paintable" context and messages
• [UI] Add a “save as copy” action in the file menu
• [Layer] Set default tiling setting to 1 by default
• [Shelf] Improved gradient filter to support 10 dynamic colors
• [Shelf] Add a space in the default query of the mini-shelf
• [Shelf] Add a 'Open in explorer' action for local resources in the shelf
• [Shelf] Add template and shader for Adobe Material Standard (Project Felix)
• [Shelf] Increase max tiling to 128 in Material Layering shaders
• [Shelf] Added sobel curvature for micro-details of Mask Generators
• [Plugin] Add autosave plugin with customizable time interval
• [Scripting] Add a "save as copy" function

Fixed :

• [UI] Layout is broken at the first launch
• [Export] PSD generated at export has format errors
• [Export] EXR always exports 8 bits height map
• [Export] Crash when exporting corrupted Additional maps
• [Import] Hard edges are not preserved on low poly meshes in some cases
• [Import] Improved error messages when importing meshes with issues
• [Bakers] ID Map Baking fail with Match By Name enabled
• [Viewport] Tangent space is not synched with bakers
• [Effect] Moving back a layer doesn't restore an anchor's reference
• [Effect] Refresh issue when creating a link in between two Masks with anchors
• [Effect] Masks anchors above mask shouldn't be listed
• [Effect] Extract Alpha setting from Anchors doesn't work
• [Engine] Mask inverts itself after first brush stroke
• [Engine] Crash when switching Texture Set on specific project
• [Shelf] Crash when deleting a preset which is in a project
• [Shelf] Typo in advanced Tri-Planar filter
• [Shelf] MG Mask Builder AO Noise Scale doesn't work properly
• [Shelf] MG Mask Builder has inverted curvature parameters
• [Shelf] Imported alphas generate a material sphere preview instead of a flat one

This summer release introduces the concept of Anchor Points, or References, while also bringing new scripting options, new filters, and an overall performance boost.


Added :
- Anchor Points - Layer and Mask referencing system
- [Layer Stack] Ability to rename Fill and Paint Effects
- [Shelf] 4 New Fonts (Japanese + Simplified Chinese, Typewriter, Segment)
- [Performance] Project loading and stamping optimizations
- [Substance Source] Updated Substance Source plugin
- Added Splash Screen on startup
- [Scripting] Allow to query Texture Set Resolution
- [Scripting] Allow to get the status of the Painting engine


Fixed :
- [Tool] Performance issues when tweaking material parameters
- [Engine] Disappearing brush strokes when changing resolution (4K>2K)
- [Shader] Non-PBR shader doesn't work anymore
- [Sample] Meet Mat sample project Texture Set names are incorrect
- [Shelf] Shelf path in the user documents isn't created automatically
- Saving a project before creating a template returns write permission errors
- [Shelf] Make presets compatible with previous versions after an update
- [Bakers) ID Map Baking fail with Match By Name enabled
- [3D View] Tangent space is not synched with bakers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9mLZQKxPSo&t=2s

Today’s release marks the first iteration of our new number-less release cycle. Subsequent releases will be named after the current year rather than a major version number. But enough with the technicalities, here is what’s new in Substance Painter:

While we are hard at work on major features for the next release, today’s update is focused on content. We are bringing Substance Source and Substance Painter closer together and 300 new customizable alphas and patterns have been added to the Shelf, along with new and improved filters, new fonts and more!



Steam users will get free updates on Substance Painter 2 up to September 30, 2017.



2017.1

Changes

• [Plugin] New Substance Source plugin (allow to download assets directly in the shelf)
• [Shelf] 4 New Fonts (Japanese + Simplified Chinese, Typewriter, Segment)
• [Shelf] 230 New Alphas (Mix of patterns, brushes and fingerprint scans)
• [Shelf] 50 New Procedurals (Fabric patterns of medieval and contemporary clothing)
• [Shelf] 2 New environment maps (Mondarrain and Villa Nova Street)
• [Shelf] 9 New filters: MatFx Detail Edge Wear, Clamp, HBAO, Glow, Drop Shadow, Color Correct, Color Balance, Invert, MatFx Shut Line
• [Shelf] Updated Bur filter with higher maximum value
• [Shelf] Updated default Apha with sharper maximum hardness
• [Shelf] Updated MG Light Generator with a gradient option
• [Shelf] Updated Baked Lighting filters to work with Specular/Glossiness worfklow
• [Shelf] Improved default Panorama environment map
• [Shelf] New Arnold 5 export presets
• [Scripting] Allow to import resource into the Shelf
• [Texture Set] Allow to delete disabled texture sets
• [Shelf] Allow multiple users to write inside the same shelf folder
• [Scripting] Be able to reload plugins folder
• [IRay] Export image dialog improvements

Fixed

• Importing files with multiple dots (.) in the filename causes issues
• Incorrect project save if filename contains two periods
• Saving a project before creating a template returns write permission errors
• [Tool] Black artifacts when using the smudge tool
• [Bakers] Error messages are not explicit enough
• [Import] Crash when loading two files with the same name but different extensions
• [Shader] "pbr-coated" is broken
• [Shader] Coating Roughness of "pbr-coated" shader has no impact anymore
• [Shader] Spec gloss shader doesn't match Iray and SD
• [Shelf] Impossible to edit preset anymore
• [Shelf] Cannot set custom preview anymore
• Resources loaded from the cache lose their usages

 
Known Issue :

• [Export] Editing an export preset is very slow