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Nov 28, 2013

Community Announcements - nicolas.liatti

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

Nov 27, 2013

Substance Designer 4 is upon us!

Community Announcements - Jerc

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...

Oct 20, 2013

Only 24h left!

Community Announcements - Jerc

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

Sep 19, 2013

Substance Designer 3.7.1 update

Community Announcements - Jerc

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.

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