Substance Designer 4.1 is now released, with lots of cool stuffs!
Find more information at http://www.allegorithmic.com/products/substance-designer


** Features

- Graph: Frames to group Nodes / Comment
- Graph: Action to create Inputs/Outputs nodes from node instance inputs/outputs connectors
- Explorer: export package with dependencies
- Explorer: Set Read Only files to a locked state in SD
- Explorer: Make "Close" action on package support multitple selection
- Explorer: Manage Version Control on packages
- Graph: delete unused nodes / clean graph
- 2D View: Reexport all outputs images
- 3D View: correct gamma management
- Gradient: delete key by moving it up only
- Bakers: new Bent normals baker
- Bakers: new Ambien Occlusion from mesh baker
- Bakers: bake multiple maps at once
- Bakers: Disable Ok button if high poly mesh is not set
- Bakers: Override or Rename resources with same name
- Bakers: use underscores instead of spaces in output file name
- Library: Add a condition "does not contain" in the filter definition
- Library: search by tags
- Parameters: TAB functionality in the parameter UI
- Use middle mouse button to close Tab Widget
- Console widget
- Add a F9 keyboard shortcut for the "Switch Engine" dialog
- Add aliases to custom library paths



** Bug Fix

- Crash when adding a new node after removing one just before
- Crash when using the create input/output feature on fxmaps
- Crash when creating graph inclusion cycles
- Crash when editing the value of a channel shuffle parameter that has been made into a constant
- Graph: Contextual menu spawned with Space bar is not sorted correctly
- Graph: Selection rectangle still displayed after Space menu displayed
- Graph: actions still gray when doing a checkout on package
- Engine build numbers are reported as 0 in the Switch engine dialog box
- Library: Performance Issue
- Preferences: "View outputs when opening graphs" does not work anymore
- Cannot go into the function graph of a parameter
- When opening ReadOnly packages, some modification actions are still available
- Bakers: loading a file containing "." in the name generate an error
- Bakers: Connectivity problem on fbx second UV
- Performance issue when linking PSD file
- 3D View: PBR shader does not set the default environment map
- Unable to export grayscale TGA in non indexed format
- [Mac Only] Pick color feature is broken / crash
- [Mac Only] Gradient Color picker don't get the right color

Release Note:

Fixes:
- Crash when creating a function
- Crash when clicking on node input
- Crash when opening specific sbs file
- Bakers: mesh ID selection does not work properly when UVs are overlapped
- Bakers: boundingbox related parameters are reset to 1
- Bakers: restore default sets the normal map orientation to OpenGL
- Bakers: using a cage produce incorrect result
- Sliders: double clicking to edit the value also change the slider position
- Functions: Swizzle Integer 1 Crash
- 32b images not converted correctly
- Bad performances on Explorer
- Removed "Infinite Loop Detected" when D&D a node in the same graph with right button
- Remove default "diffuse" usage on new grayscale input nodes
- Change range for the SVG Quality slider
- Added new Mask Generators (Mesh Adaptive / Mask Generators)
- Samples Download creates endless recursive folder structure
- Library Thumbs are no generated anymore
- Remove D3D9 Engine


Library Updated:
- Added Material Selector (Mesh Adaptive / Utilities)
- Added Material Adjustment Blend (Material Filters / Blending)
- fixed splatter_circular (pattern specific, position random), added features (pivot position, scale)
- added splatter_circular_color

Substance Designer 4 is the first announcement of the Substance 4 program.

The 2nd part will be revealed next wednesday, stay tuned!

http://www.allegorithmic.com/substance4

Rejoice, Substance users! Substance Designer 4 is out, and it's a free upgrade for all of you!

Lots of exciting new features in this update:

• Material layering workflow - full materials can be collapsed, blended and processed as one single element.
  
• PBR preview - the 3d preview now uses the same lighting model as UE4
  
• Dynamic inputs and outputs - Activate node inputs and outpus on the fly for cleaner faster graphs.
  
• Revamped filters library - material wide weathering filters, masks generators,material blending and transformation, etc.
  
• Expose all the parameters of a node at once
  
• Support for substance presets
  
• Drag and drop any node in the 3d view for a instant preview
  
• Many, many workflow improvements and small features...

Only 24h left to get your hands on the commercial upgrade with a 50% discount. Don't waste another minute :)

After a short break, 3.7 is back with a vengeance. Here is the full changelist:

New Features and changes

• Bakers: Vertex color baker
  
• Bakers: Custom cage support
  
• Synced TBN with Unity
  
• Shaders: Glossiness support
  
• Library: Add attribute to hide content from the library
  
• Functions: allow input reordering
  
• Explorer: Allow "Copy" of a graph in a read only package
  
• 3D View: convert cgfx shaders to glsl
  
• 3D View: Limit VRAM usage to improve low specs hardware performances
  
• 3D View: add vertex color to the mesh info shader
  
• Export log file
  
• Enable the "expose-paths" option by default
  
• Preferences: edit default packages path
  
• Add more details to the Activation failed error
  
• Parameters: Replace double buttons "YES/NO" "TRUE/FALSE" by unique button in Properties
  
• Add an option panel for mesh assets
  
• Remove the Load/Reload mesh actions from the View3D menu
  
• [Steam] Embed also 64bits version of tools
  
• [Steam] Convert Dota2_Hero_Shader.cgfx to GLSL
  
• Parameters: Prevent creation of tweaks named "outputsize", "format", "pixelsize", "tiling", "quality" or "randomseed"
  
• Single-graph SBS files should open the single graph by default
  
• Set max texture size limit to 4096 instead of 2048
  
• Convert .pdf User Guide to html

Bug fixes

• Opening an sbs opens the dependency graph instead of the sbs graph.
  
• Normal Map format consistency
  
• 3D View: bad filtering for textures over 1024*1024
  
• 3D View: Relief shader crashing SD with integrated graphics and other hardware.
  
• 3D View: OBj files crash SD when loaded
  
• 2D View: black diagonal line
  
• [Steam] Wrong Resource path
  
• Many many more...

For the full list of bug fixes, head over to the product page on our website.