This page regroups all the changes that happened to Substance 3D Sampler, from new features to bug fixes.

Version 4

4.1.0 Cannoli

(Released: March 28, 2023)

Added:

• [Content] New Embroidery filter
• [Content] New Paint Warp filter
• [UI] Add Export option in File menu
• [3D Capture] Back button is now available on the alignment step
• [3D Capture] Images Handle JPEG EXIF orientation
• [3D Capture] Scripting - New dataset_info.camera property
• [3D Capture] Add Linux support (see documentation)
• [3D Capture] Verify read access of the imported images
• [Onboarding] Learn - 2 new tutorials (Embroidery and Paint Warp)
• [Onboarding] Updated What's New content

Fixed:

• [3D Capture] Keep camera position when changing version
• [3D Capture] Merge all groups of an object into one
• [3D Capture] Renamed generated meshes into Original
• [Application] Crash when trying to generate thumbnail of a non-existent image
• [Assets] Trash bin icon does nothing in the Assets panel
• [Content] Updating filters with material slots doesn't work as expected
• [Export] Possible crash when exporting an asset with specific filters
• [Export] SBS/SBSAR Export - image import layers had priority over image parameters
• [Export] UE4 Export preset doesn't work with PNG
• [Layers] Crash when dropping a material and a filter at the same time from OS explorer
• [Layers] Crash when dragging any SBSAR file with any image file
• [Layers] Embroidery opacity channel can be completely white
• [Localization] Chinese language may be displayed by default on Linux
• [Performance] Fixed a memory issue when removing a layer from an asset
• [Project] Possible crash when saving
• [UI] Add missing spacing on Version's menu button
• [UI] Cancel button not properly displayed
• [UI] Disable sliders animation for 3D Capture post-process parameters
• [UI] The Material Creation Template window does not close itself when clicking outside
• [UI] The filter quick accessor closes itself when clicking outside

Known Issues:

• [Color Picker] Picking a color on a second monitor with a different resolution may not work
• [Content] Shape light widget is not working in spherical projection mode
• [Interoperability] Material with displacement sent to Stager will lose displacement controls

4.0.2 Banana

(Released: March 09, 2023)

Added:

• [3D Capture] Disk usage shows the amount used
• [3D Capture] Importing photos is asynchronous and faster
• [Scripting] New classes and functions to script the 3D Capture feature
• [Scripting] New ExportController class to perform actions when the export is finished, failed or canceled
• [Scripting] Pass arguments python scripts run with --run-script
• [UI] UI feedback when dragging an asset over the Layers panel
• [Content] Color temperature filter is now working on materials
• [Content] Normal to Height filters has a new option to preserve tiling

Fixed:

• [3D Capture] Corrected image size in dataset alignment step
• [3D Capture] Remove duplicate vertices after UV unwrapping
• [3D Capture] MacOS - Better detection if 3D Capture is available
• [3D Capture] Crash when closing the 3D capture window while importing images
• [3D Capture] Crash when generating a new version
• [3D Capture] Crash when trying to load the 3D object in the viewer
• [3D Capture] Crash when using path with non UTF8 characters
• [3D Capture] Hits & Tips typo
• [3D Capture] Meshes are no longer scaled to fit into unit cube
• [3D Capture] Prevent a crash when closing 3D capture while rendering
• [3D Capture] Removing a mask makes the image disappear
• [Application] Crash when importing twice an asset simultaneously
• [Application] Backup previous version of assets when opening a project if they were never back-up
• [Application] Correctly cache baked maps when not all maps are baked
• [Application] Fullscreen crashes when a 3D object is displayed.
• [Application] Last material is duplicated when saving the project
• [Application] Prevent crash when cancelling the Mesh Post processing compute during the baking step
• [Application] Reopening current project does not discard changes
• [Application] Stop generating thumbnails for 3D objects
• [2D View] Crash when use the brush tool
• [Content] Content Aware Fill - computation may stuck
• [Content] Atlas Creator filter is downscaling the Opacity channel
• [Export] Fix clear Failed exports queue
• [Export] OBJ export creates object 100 times smaller than expected
• [Layers] Color images imported as grayscale channels are now considered grayscale
• [Export] FBX files cannot be imported in third party applications
• [Export] Shader output names in USD files are not correct
• [Layers] Image name is not updated when changing its name on the OS explorer
• [Scripting] Display an error message when reloading an invalid script
• [UI] Base material button disabled when not available
• [UI] Crash when accessing the file dialog on the Material Creation Template Window
• [UI] Quick accessor is accessible even when the Layers panel is closed
• [UI] Send to icons are misaligned
• [UI] The layer icon changes when clicking on the Blend icon

Known Issues:

• [Color Picker] Picking a color on a second monitor with a different resolution may not work
• [Content] Shape light widget is not working in spherical projection mode
• [Interoperability] Material with displacement sent to Stager will lose displacement controls

4.0.1 Banana

(Released: February 07, 2023)

Fixed:

• [3D Capture] When using masks, the texture projection may be broken
• [3D Capture] Artefacts may appear on your object
• [3D Capture] The exported mesh may be really small

Known Issues:

• [3D Capture] FBX and OBJ exports downscale the result
• [3D Capture] 3D Capture is available on MacOS even if your hardware is not compatible. Check the documentation.
• [3D Capture] Crash when the mesh reconstruction is done.
• [Layers] Content-Aware Fill can be stuck if you tweak layers below
• [Color Picker] Picking a color on a second monitor with a different resolution may not work
• [Content] Shape light widget is not working in spherical projection mode
• [Interoperability] Material with displacement sent to Stager will lose displacement controls

4.0.0 Banana

(Released: January 31, 2023)

Added:

• [3D Capture] Create 3D objects from images
• [3D Capture] Dedicated 3D Capture wizard
• [3D Capture] Import or generate black and white masks on your dataset
• [3D Capture] Alignment result - view all matched features as a point cloud
• [3D Capture] Alignment result - view and interact with cameras associated with each aligned photo
• [3D Capture] Define the reconstruction area with a bounding box widget
• [3D Capture] Scale, translate, and rotate on all axes the bounding box widget
• [3D Capture] Define the geometry precision for the reconstructed mesh
• [3D Capture] Optimize your mesh and textures by creating a new version
• [3D Capture] Each of the versions is automatically decimated to the target faces number set
• [3D Capture] The post-process step automatically unwraps, re-projects textures, and then bakes the normal height and AO information from the high-poly mesh
• [3D Capture] Add the original result or a version to the Sampler project
• [3D Capture] New Mesh Post-Process layer to automatically decimate, unwrap, reproject textures, and bake details of the underlying mesh layer
• [3D Capture] New Mesh Transform layer to scale, rotate, or translate the underlying mesh layer
• [Export] New Export window
• [Export] Dedicated settings and UI depending on the asset type (material, environment light, mesh)
• [Export] Export the mesh as USD, USDA, USDZ, glTF, glb, obj, fbx, stl
• [Export] Define the material type when exporting Substance files (SBSAR, SBS)
• [UI] Move cache settings to a new tab in the Preferences popup
• [Application] 2D and 3D viewports can now be resized, swapped, and stacked vertically
• [Application] New SAMPLER_RESOURCES_PATH environment variable to add extra starter assets
• [Scripting] Added SAMPLER_PLUGIN_PATH and SAMPLER_SCRIPT_PATH environment variables to import plugins and scripts at startup
• [Scripting] Added export functions for materials, environment lights, and 3d objects
• [Scripting] Added identifier, default value, min and max values, labels, and enum values to parameters
• [Scripting] Added import_textures function to enter a customized usage while importing images

Fixed:

• [Application] Crash when opening a recent project and saving in confirmation dialog
• [Application] File dialog prevents opening .ssa files
• [Application] File dialogs can appear on a background window on macOS
• [Application] Potential crash when opening 3.2 projects
• [Application] Selecting a file closes the File dialog before displaying warnings
• [Exposed Parameters] Exporting parametric environment lights does not work
• [Layers] "Click here to browse" link in layer stack doesn't work anymore
• [Layers] Painting several images within the same layer sometimes does not work
• [Layers] Setting an image in the layer properties does not update the image picker thumbnail
• [Layers] Tweaking a Sampler asset added as a layer does not work
• [Project] Unwanted asset update when opening a project
• [Scripting] Browse to plugin folder sometimes fails on Windows
• [Scripting] Crash when using 'open_project()' in a Python script
• [Scripting] JPEG export is missing from the API
• [Scripting] The log panel is not read-only
• [Scripting] image_picker parameter value does not work
• [UI] Missing asset icon for environment lights in the Project panel
• [UI] Send to Designer Format Dropdown in the Preferences popup can be empty
• [UI] Some buttons have an incorrect style
• [UI] The label overlaps the buttons in Button Group widgets
• [UI] Tooltip position is wrong for "Tools" in Set the physical size menu
• [UI] When changing language, File menu is misaligned

Known Issues:

• [3D Capture] When using masks, the texture projection may be broken
• [3D Capture] Small artefacts may appear on your object if your scale in the Mesh transform is too small
• [3D Capture] The exported mesh may be really small. Reset the scale of the Mesh transform and re-export
• [Color Picker] Picking a color on a second monitor with a different resolution may not work
• [Content] Shape light widget is not working in spherical projection mode
• [Interoperability] Material with displacement sent to Stager will lose displacement controls

Version 3

3.4.1 Arancini

(Released: October 06, 2022)

Added:

• [Onboarding] New Welcome and What's New screens
• [Onboarding] Updated Home screen UI
• [Onboarding] New Learn content in the Home screen
• [Scripting] Log an error in the Log panel when a method is not recognized
• [Scripting] New ssa.helpers module to enable printing to the Log panel
• [Application] Support for the new side-by-side buttons widget from Substance 3D Designer

Fixed:

• [Export] Crash when exporting a .sbsar file referencing a missing image
• [Export] Crash when exporting an asset referencing a corrupted image file
• [Export] Exporting a .sbsar file with an Embroidery layer results in a gray material
• [Export] Exporting a material to a .sbs/sbsar file can generate a fully transparent material
• [Export] Normal Format parameter is not exposed correctly in .sbs/.sbsar files
• [Export] Sbs/sbsar export of a layer stack referencing a .svg file is broken
• [Export] Transform layer is not exported properly / Updated Enscape - Revit export preset
• [Exposed Parameters] Crash when deleting a layer containing an exposed parameter
• [Exposed Parameters] Updating an outdated layer in the layer stack can lead to a corrupted list of exposed parameters
• [Exposed Parameters] Parameters that should not be exported are exported anyway
• [Exposed Parameters] Removing a blend filter when deleting a layer does not unexpose its parameters
• [Exposed Parameters] Text parameters break .sbs/.sbsar exports
• [Layers] Crash when dropping a layer stack in another layer stack
• [Layers] Crash when failing to load a filter
• [Layers] Cannot reload the previous image when resetting the Image field
• [Layers] Cannot undo/redo transform tool changes
• [Layers] Clone Stamp layer is stuck after clicking "Reset all settings"
• [Layers] Using any of the reset buttons prevents from drawing in the Image field
• [Layers] The Reset button does not clear the drawing mask in the Image field
• [Layers] The Reset button in the Image field does nothing if the user has painted something
• [Layers] Rendering cache does not work when using the Brush tool
• [Layers] Deleted layer can still show up in the Properties panel
• [Layers] Layer computation can stall when switching between project assets
• [Project] Sometimes Sampler is unable to open a project from disk
• [2D View] The 2D view always defaults back to Material Output

Known Issues:

• [Color Picker] Picking a color on a second monitor with a different resolution may not work
• [Content] Shape light widget is not working in spherical projection mode
• [Interoperability] Material with displacement sent to Stager will lose displacement controls

3.4.0 Arancini

(Released: September 06, 2022)

Added:

• [Exposed Parameters] New Exposed Parameters panel
• [Exposed Parameters] New button on parameters hover to expose and unexpose parameters from Properties panel
• [Exposed Parameters] New right-click context menu on parameters to expose and unexpose parameters from Properties panel
• [Exposed Parameters] Exposed parameters are listed in the Exposed Parameters panel
• [Exposed Parameters] Color dots and color discs are added in several places to easily identify exposed parameters
• [Exposed Parameters] Parameter labels can be edited in the Exposed Parameters panel
• [Exposed Parameters] Display a warning for non-exportable parameters
• [Exposed Parameters] Display warning if moving a layer with exposed blend parameters somewhere where they become hidden
• [Exposed Parameters] Exposed parameters are exported in SBS and SBSAR formats
• [Metadata] Support Custom Metadata templates
• [Metadata] New CLO Physical properties metadata template
• [Metadata] Add icons on hover to add/remove custom metadata
• [Python API] New Python API
• [Python API] API for Asset authoring
• [Python API] API for Layers management
• [Python API] API for Parameters management
• [Python API] API for Project management
• [Python API] A plugin can be enabled and disabled
• [Python API] Python API documentation accessible in the Help menu
• [Scripting] New Plugins and Scripts section in the Preferences popup
• [Scripting] Create and import plugins to customize Sampler interface with your own panels
• [Scripting] Plugins become part of the Sampler interface and can be docked and moved around like standard Sampler panels
• [Scripting] Dedicated button bar for the plugins on the Sampler right toolbar
• [Scripting] Create and import scripts to perform a list of given tasks
• [Scripting] Launch Python scripts via Scripts menu
• [Scripting] Plugins and Scripts can be deleted, re-ordered, and reloaded from the Preferences window
• [Scripting] Added --run-script command line parameters
• [Logs] New Logs panel
• [Logs] Enable Logs panel from the Preferences window
• [Logs] New action bar to clear, copy/paste, export logs
• [Properties] New button on parameters hover to reset parameter value
• [Properties] New right-click context menu on parameters to reset parameter value
• [Content] Image to Material (AI Powered) now works on MacOS
• [Engine] Update Substance engine to v8.6.0

Fixed:

• [Application] Application could crash at exit when a thumbnail generation was in progress
• [Application] Application might crash when using 'Save as' at exit
• [Application] Application might hang during shutdown on MacOS
• [Application] Saving with the color dialog open doesn't save its changes
• [Export] Usage naming convention is not correct when exporting
• [Layers] Dropping a material on top of a filter could crash
• [Layers] Updating an outdated layer stack could update unrelated layer stacks
• [Metadata] Empty fields are exported
• [Metadata] When there is only one metadata item, the UI lets you try to reorder it
• [Project] Compute never ends after duplicating a material
• [Project] Project asset is duplicated after initial project save
• [Project] Unnecessary computations when switching asset
• [Rendering] Some layer stacks do not render properly after deleting a layer
• [Security] Fix CVE-2015-20107
• [UI] 2D Outputs can be blurry depending on the window size
• [UI] Asset preview can stay opened on top when application loses focus
• [UI] Splash screen rounded corners have a square opaque background

Known Issues:

• [Color Picker] Picking a color on a second monitor with a different resolution may not work
• [Content] Shape light widget is not working in spherical projection mode
• [Interoperability] Material with displacement sent to Stager will lose displacement controls

3.3.2 Zucchini

(Released: June 28, 2022)

Fixed:

• [Application] Fix potential crash when opening a project
• [Export] Restarting Sampler breaks imported custom export presets list
• [Interoperability] Fix crash when a material sent from Designer is deleted and then re-sent from Designer
• [Project] Impossible to delete the last material or environment light if it's the last asset in the project
• [Project] Right-click on an environment light makes the "unsaved modifications" asterisk appear

Known Issues:

• [Color Picker] Picking a color on a second monitor with a different resolution may not work
• [Content] Shape light widget is not working in spherical projection mode
• [Interoperability] Material with displacement sent to Stager will lose displacement controls

3.3.1 Zucchini

(Released: June 07, 2022)

Added:

• [Application] Native Apple silicon (M1) support
• [UI] New shortcut, "C" key, to cycle through channels in the 2D view
• [Tools] Numerical field to edit grayscale color value in Brush Toolbar

Fixed:

• [Tools] Using the Brush tool on Windows with a fractional UI scale (150%) offsets the strokes
• [Performance] Improve memory consumption
• [Physical Size] Physical size information can be missing when enabling the feature
• [UI] Mouse scrolling sometimes does not work as expected when pressing the Alt key
• [Application] Application may crash when opening a saved project
• [Application] Crash when drag and dropping several images and using Texture Import in the Material Creation Template window
• [Application] Potential crash when saving a project containing a custom filter
• [Application] Sometimes the Control key state is lost when switching application
• [Assets] Crash when renaming a local folder

Known Issues:

• [Color Picker] Picking a color on a second monitor with a different resolution may not work
• [Content] Shape light widget is not working in spherical projection mode
• [Interoperability] Material with displacement sent to Stager will lose displacement controls

3.3.0 Zucchini

(Released: May 17, 2022)

Added:

• [Content] New Content-Aware Fill filter (Windows and Mac)
• [Content] Content-Aware Fill is working on images, PBR materials, and environment lights
• [Content] Add "Preserve Tiling" parameter to Image to Material (AI Powered)
• [Content] The Perspective Transform filter can display a grid between its four points
• [Interoperability] Send materials to Adobe Substance 3D Stager
• [Tools] Center the transformation by pressing Ctrl when resizing Transform or Crop tool
• [Tools] Lock the ratio to square by pressing Shift when resizing Transform or Crop tool
• [Tools] Clone stamp cursor offers a preview of what will be stamped
• [Tools] Preview original content in the the Eraser cursor when using Clone stamp
• [Tools] Ctrl+Click creates a new stamp in the Clone Stamp layer
• [Tools] Successive clone stamps are now grouped within a single layer
• [Tools] Brush Toolbar UI Revamp
• [Tools] The Brush Toolbar position is persistent during a session
• [Tools] New brush tiling options by axis
• [Tools] Hide/display the overlay over the 2D view when painting
• [Tools] New shortcut, "X" key, to toggle between Brush and Eraser
• [Tools] New shortcut, "[" "]" to change the Brush size
• [Tools] New shortcut, "E" key, to toggle the Eraser
• [2D View] New Spherical Projection mode when creating environment light
• [2D View] Brush tool is supported with the spherical projection mode
• [2D View] Position tool is supported with the spherical projection mode
• [2D View] Undo/redo is supported with the spherical projection mode
• [2D View] In Spherical Projection, set the default position to look at the center of the environment
• [2D View] New exposure control
• [UI] In the Properties panel, the Image tweak displays the source of the content (Image or from a layer)
• [UI] Improved the layer/material outputs dropdown background
• [UI] New position of the resolution information in the 2D View
• [UI] New tooltip with 3D view navigation controls shortcuts
• [UI] New tooltip with brush controls
• [UI] New tooltip with projection navigation controls shortcuts
• [Compound Filters] Compound filters handle variations to work on images, PBR materials, and environment lights
• [Compound Filters] Tweaks order matches the nodes list order in the compound filter
• [Compound Filters] Tweaks of different nodes with the same group will be merged in one single group in the Properties panel
• [Application] Have dedicated viewer settings per asset type

Fixed:

• [Application] Application may crash when switching to 2D view
• [Application] Fix a possible deadlock or crash when exporting multiple times
• [Application] Make default values for channels consistent with Substance 3D Designer
• [Application] Loading a project doesn't trigger the material recompute
• [Application] Updated the URL to texture import documentation
• [Content] When using a compound filter, it asks to be updated when it shouldn't, on reload
• [Content] Details in height map disappear when using Opacity Blend
• [UI] In the Color Dialog, it is possible to get out of range using the slider's text fields
• [UI] Usage list has a useless vertical scrollbar

Known Issues:

• [Color Picker] Picking a color on a second monitor with a different resolution may not work
• [Content] Shape light widget is not working in spherical projection mode
• [Interoperability] Material with displacement sent to Stager will lose displacement controls

3.2.1 Yakitori

(Released: March 08, 2022)

Added:

• [Export] Export dpi metadata in image files
• [Physical Size] Keep the ratio with non square textures when editing physical dimensions
• [Physical Size] Physical size metadata is applied immediatly when physical size changes
• [UI] Adjust Height scale max slider so it can influence any kind of material when Physical Size is enabled
• [UI] New tooltips on search filters in the Asset panel
• [UI] Use tooltips to explain when buttons are disabled in the Assets panel
• [Content] Brightness contrast filter update

Fixed:

• [2D View] 90 degrees rotation button in the Crop and Transform tools don't work as expected
• [2D View] Crop widget sometimes goes missing
• [Application] Clearing an image parameter does not reconnect the underlying layer
• [Application] Crash at exit after saving a project
• [Application] Crash when drag and dropping the current material into a collection of the Assets Panel
• [Application] Drag and dropping an asset in the viewport may crash
• [Content] Normal blend has a random seed tweak
• [Content] Snow filter has incorrect normal output depending on fresh and melted snow parameter values
• [Content] Parquet filter: fixed unexpected seams
• [Content] Embroidery filter: remove thread in metallic map
• [Content] Floor tiles filter: fix x and y tiles count
• [Content] Brick wall filter: output normal and height to 16 bit
• [Export] Default file name in export popup is not the current material name
• [Export] Exporting with physical ratio with an export preset gives incorrect dimensions
• [Export] Metallic is missing in the CLO export preset
• [Export] When replacing an export custom preset, the display name is not updated
• [Layers] Custom channels of the first inserted layer are not discovered
• [Layers] Material is re-evaluated when changing tweaks of a hidden layer
• [Localization] Tooltips are not localized in Export panel
• [Physical Size] Disabling Physical Size of an asset does not remove the physical scale
• [Physical Size] Height Scale value can't be set outside of slider bounds the first time
• [Physical Size] Importing an image with no physical size prevents opening the project
• [Physical Size] Physical Size is erroneously set to zero when missing
• [Physical Size] Physical Size physical scale check box status is not updated when first displayed
• [UI] Base Material & Normal to Height do not have a category
• [UI] Cursor is sometimes invisible when painting an image
• [UI] Disable "Copy All" and "Cut All" options in the edit menu of a text field if it is empty
• [UI] Filter names have incorrect characters
• [UI] Physical Size lock button does not have the correct style
• [UI] The close button in search bar in Asset Panel does not clear the search string

Known Issues:

• [Color Picker] Picking a color on a second monitor with a different resolution may not work

3.2.0 Yakitori

(Released: January 25, 2022)

Added:

• [Physical Size] New Physical Size panel
• [Physical Size] Add Physical Size options to the Material Creation Template window
• [Physical Size] Add Physical Size measurement tool
• [Physical Size] Add Physical Size auto-measurement tool
• [Physical Size] Add Physical Size diagnostic tool
• [Physical Size] Allow setting the z value of the Physical Size
• [Physical Size] Dropdown widget to set the level of zoom in the 2D view
• [Physical Size] New "Display with physical ratio" option in the level of zoom dropdown
• [Physical Size] New "Fit to physical size" option in the level of zoom dropdown
• [Physical Size] Display the Physical Size in the 2D view
• [Physical Size] Display the Physical Size in the 3D viewport
• [Physical Size] In the image import dialog, show physical size depth if there is an imported height map
• [Physical Size] Show the Physical Size in the asset contextual menu
• [Physical Size] Set the length unit in the Preferences
• [Physical Size] Export textures respecting the physical ratio
• [Metadata] Ability to add custom metadata to a user-authored asset
• [Export] Export custom metadata to .sbs(ar) files
• [Export] Export description, category, author, and tags metadata to .sbs(ar) files
• [Export] Export the Physical Size to .sbs(ar) files
• [Export] Set .sbsar file compression setting
• [Export] Export the asset thumbnail to .sbs(ar) files
• [Export] Set the graph type when exporting a .sbs(ar) file
• [Application] Realtime Engine 2021 is no longer available
• [Application] Undo/Redo now supports Tiling (U,V) and height scale slider changes
• [Rendering] Generate disk cache when the authored asset is saved
• [Assets] Use Ctrl+click to enable multiple asset type filters in the Resources panel
• [UI] Ability to lock the Tiling (U,V) sliders
• [UI] Add a contextual menu with "Copy", "Cut", "Paste", "Copy all" and "Cut all" in text fields
• [UI] Length unit (meters, inches, parsecs, ...) support in labels and text fields
• [UI] The user can set the decimal precision used to display numbers
• [UI] Use units in measure popups everywhere it's relevant
• [Localization] Default new asset name is now localized
• [Content] New Cloth Weave generator
• [Content] New Channel Switch filter
• [Content] All relevant filters are now aware of the Physical Size
• [Content] New icons for Wood Finish
• [Content] All filters are now compatible with Adobe Standard Materials (ASM) channels
• [Content] Filters can now have an "environment" variation

Fixed:

• [2D View] Channel remains in the list when removed
• [Application] Cannot duplicate an asset loaded from the operating system file explorer
• [Application] Crash at exit
• [Application] Crash sometimes when clicking "Starter Assets" in the Assets panel
• [Application] Crash when deleting a material
• [Application] Environment variable "SUBSTANCE_DISABLE_SPECIFIC_FEATURES" is still active when set to "0" or "".
• [Application] Freeze while saving a project with multiple materials
• [Application] Importing an image can lead to a crash
• [Application] Missing some starter assets on first launch
• [Export] Exporting an asset sometimes leads to a crash
• [Layers] Cannot import images when the layer panel is closed or invisible
• [Layers] Changing the language causes the current asset to recompute
• [Layers] Changing the usage of an imported image does not upate which filter variation to use
• [Layers] Image to Material (AI) is sometimes not computed when tweaking layers below it
• [Layers] Image to Material (AI) sometimes recomputes when not needed
• [Layers] No update is suggested when a custom filter is updated on the disk
• [Layers] Normal channel sometimes has the wrong pixel format
• [Layers] Some layers are still computed even when not visible
• [Layers] The 2D view tools may be broken when toggling a layer visibility
• [Layers] The UI freezes when using Image to Material (AI)
• [Layers] Toggling the visibilty of the Transform filter layer breaks the 2D view tool and may lead to a crash
• [Layers] Too many recomputations when removing a layer from the layer stack
• [Layers] When a compound filter contains an unusual or custom input/output, Sampler doesn't compute it
• [Performance] Asset panel is slow to open
• [Performance] Avoid some unnecessary recomputations of the layer stack
• [Performance] Loading project assets takes too much time
• [Performance] Render cache on disk may not be used
• [Performance] Switching between layers is slow
• [Performance] Tweaking a material or a filter is slow
• [Project] Saving a project when exiting may lead to a crash
• [Rendering] Removing an image may remove all outputs
• [Rendering] The rendering time displayed in the viewport is wrong when tweaking
• [UI] Can't scroll vertically in the export popup when needed
• [UI] It is possible to open the export popup when there is nothing to export
• [UI] Some popups do not scroll if their content overflows
• [UI] Text fields are not selected when clicking on it or opening a menu
• [UI] The name of the blend mode in the properties panel is sometimes not correct
• [UI] The Save option in the File menu is sometimes grayed out
• [UI] The text field doesn't go away after renaming two materials
• [UI] Typo in the preference popup

Known Issues:

• [Color Picker] Picking a color on a second monitor with a different resolution may not work

3.1.2 Xocoatl

(Released: December 14, 2021)

Fixed:

• [Interoperability] Open .sbsar file with Substance 3D Sampler from Bridge can fail on Windows
• [Layers] Moving the only layer below itself will crash
• [UI] Channel settings button disappears when changing language
• [UI] The material name in Properties panel disappears after saving the project
• [Assets] Clicking on "All libraries" can lead to a crash

Known Issues:

• [Realtime Engine 2021] Heavy computation can crash the application
• [Realtime Engine 2021] Realtime Engine 2021 will crash on a Windows machine with both AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU installed
• [Color Picker] Picking a color on a second monitor with a different resolution may not work

3.1.1 Xocoatl

(Released: November 24, 2021)

Added:

• [Interoperability] Send assets (SBS or SBSAR) to Substance 3D Designer
• [Interoperability] Set in preferences the default format for interoperability with Substance 3D Designer
• [Interoperability] Receive multiple assets from Adobe Bridge
• [UI] New Random Seed widget
• [UI] Context menu update
• [Assets] Drag and drop images from the Assets panel to the Properties panel
• [Project] Asset names are sanitised to avoid some specific characters
• [Branding] Update file icon for SBSAR files
• [Engine] Update Substance Engine version 8.3.0

Fixed:

• [Content] Crop - Preserve ratio when cropping non-square images
• [Content] Transform - Horizontal transformation is not inverted when using the widget
• [Content] Gravel - fix custom mask painting on all channels
• [Content] Floor tiles - fix issues with pattern tiling and repetition
• [Assets] Grey out Adobe Bridge option if not installed
• [Color Picker] Escape key closes the Color Picker
• [Rendering] Fix Scattering Distance Scale when using greyscale input
• [Share] Send to options are only available with Adobe licenses
• [Project] Fix a memory performance issue

Known Issues:

• [Realtime Engine 2021] Heavy computation can crash the application
• [Realtime Engine 2021] Realtime Engine 2021 will crash on a Windows machine with both AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU installed
• [Color Picker] Picking a color on a second monitor with a different resolution may not work

3.1.0 Xocoatl

(Released: September 28, 2021)

Added:

• [Color Picker] New Color Picker UI
• [Color Picker] Preview the current and previous colors side by side
• [Color Picker] Input your color in Hexadecimal
• [Color Picker] New eyedropper with color preview
• [Color Picker] The eyedropper can pick a color outside of Sampler
• [Color Picker] Tweak your color in RGB or HSV color spaces
• [Color Picker] Save and manage Swatches
• [Interoperability] Edit images in Illustrator from Image Import layer or Image parameters
• [Interoperability] Edit images in Photoshop from Image Import layer or Image parameters
• [Widget] New Crop Widget
• [Widget] Press Enter to validate your crop
• [Widget] The Crop widget reads the image size to fit the widget and keep the ratio when resizing
• [UI] New gresycale slider UI
• [Application] Add normal format selection in preferences
• [Application] The normal format in Image Import layers follows the default normal format set in the preferences
• [Application] In the 2D view, the normal is displayed following the normal format set in the preferences
• [Application] The normal is exported in the normal format set in preferences
• [Export] Add normal format parameter to SBS and SBSAR file exports
• [Export] Add shader settings to SBS and SBSAR file exports
• [Export] Set the default resolution of exported SBS graphs
• [Compound Filters] Package SSA filters with 7z
• [Compound Filters] Add category metadata in compound filters
• [Compound Filters] Compound Filters can have an embedded thumbnail
• [Compound Filters] Added Compound Filters extension (.ssafilter) to the Get Content's file dialog
• [Compound Filters] Import Compound Filters (.ssafilter) in the Assets panel
• [Engine] Update substance engine to v8.2.0

Fixed:

• [Application] Connected local folders may hang
• [Application] Crash at exit
• [Application] Crash when launching two instances of Sampler
• [Content] Crop filter has a random seed tweak
• [Content] Some Substance materials are sometimes not upgraded
• [Export] Crash when exporting with a newly added custom preset
• [Export] Estimated size of package is missing in export popup
• [Export] Fix memory leak when exporting SBS and SBSAR files
• [Compound Filters] Compound filters may have duplicated inputs
• [Compound Filters] Crash if a filter has unmet references
• [Compound Filters] Crash when reordering a layer stack with a compound filter in it
• [Compound Filters] The render sometimes hangs
• [Image Import] Importing an image triggers multiple renderings
• [Layers] Crash on undo/redo
• [Layers] Crash when adding a Base Material
• [Layers] Crash when using an invalid image as environment light
• [Layers] Fix duplicate import when inserting a filter with several graphs
• [Layers] Reordering layers doesn't always work
• [Project] Crash when loading an incomplete project file
• [Project] Crash when opening a corrupted project
• [Project] Some assets can disappear from a project
• [Properties] Fix missing filter's presets
• [UI] Angle parameters cannot be set
• [UI] Filters metadata display in Asset panel
• [UI] Grouping by category hides filters
• [UI] Scroll issue in the Asset panel
• [UI] The export panel now has a scrollbar
• [UI] The thumbnail is not displayed for some image formats in image picker

Known Issues:

• [Realtime Engine 2021] Heavy computation can crash the application
• [Realtime Engine 2021] Realtime Engine 2021 will crash on a Windows machine with both AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU installed
• [Color Picker] Picking a color on a second monitor with a different resolution may not work

3.0.1 Waffle

(Released: July 27, 2021)

Added:

• [Brush] Enable colors in brush tool if the image input supports it
• [Brush] Holding the Shift key in the brush tool draws straight lines
• [Brush] Show a line preview when holding shift in the brush tool
• [Brush] Brush tool now supports undo and redo
• [2D View] Image input default color is used when painting
• [Layers] Read Substance input default value in SBSAR files
• [Rendering] Allow to combine height with normal
• [Rendering] Sub-surface scattering support (not available on MacOS)
• [Assets] Use SBSAR graph type to determine asset type
• [Assets] Better performance for search and asset discoverability in the Assets panel
• [Assets] Added a 'All Libraries' entry in the Assets panel that displays all assets of all your libraries
• [Assets] User can now choose to group assets by category or type
• [Import] Auto detect anisotropy, coat, sheen and specular edge color textures at import
• [UI] Replace elided panel title with an icon
• [UI] Textfields style update
• [UI] New description text in The Environment Light Template Creation window
• [Application] Export assets with the current resolution when sending to external application
• [Application] Material default resolution is now 2048*2048 (1024*1024 on macos)
• [Content] New patterns in the Floor tiles filter
• [Content] New Dual Color mode in the Color replace filter

Fixed:

• [2D View] First stroke in brush tool is sometimes broken
• [2D View] Free resources when brush tool is not visible
• [2D View] Use the right resize cursor in the transform widget
• [2D View] Widgets are not displayed if the user has panned in the 2D view before
• [Application] Crash when opening a project with broken workflow
• [Application] Fix application shutdown to prevent flooding the log with useless errors
• [Application] Redo, delete and save keyboard shortcuts don't work on some operating systems
• [Application] Undo/redo changing image usage in import layer is broken
• [Export] Emission color exported images have wrong name
• [Export] Environment is 8bit when using SBSAR export
• [Export] Remove extra spaces in exported image file names
• [Export] Replacing or deleting a custom export preset crashes
• [Layers] Avoid crash when there is an input count mismatch
• [Layers] Crash when inserting a Base Material layer
• [Layers] Filter input count is capped to default value
• [Layers] Redo erroneously changes the Blend type to Height blend
• [Layers] Remove drop zone above input headers
• [Layers] Layers are inserted at the wrong place around input headers
• [Layers] Reset all settings button does not reset drop down widgets values
• [Layers] Undo/redo when changing an image on the Image Import layer marks the project as modified and so to save
• [Layers] Usages may be stopped by blend layers
• [Project] Crash when loading a legacy project with missing dependencies folder
• [Project] Crash when using undo/redo after saving
• [Project] Opening a SBSAR file containing an environment light creates a material asset
• [Project] Renaming a material can trigger a thumbnail generation
• [Project] Saving after renaming a material marks the project as unmodified
• [Project] Some changes after renaming a material are not saved
• [Rendering] Bright dots are visible on the environment with 2020 realtime engine
• [Rendering] Crash when resizing using Real Time Engine 2021
• [Rendering] Recompute shadows on height level change
• [Assets] Connected folders stop indexing new assets when adding an invalid file
• [Assets] Crash when connecting a local folder with many materials
• [UI] 2D/3D view buttons missing tooltips
• [UI] All assets in the Assets panel are highlighted at launch
• [UI] Breadcrumbs sometimes disapears in the Assets panel when importing materials
• [UI] Changing language doesn't affect the Project panel
• [UI] Channel Settings panel shows legacy workflow information
• [UI] Correctly align "No settings for this item" text for filters with no tweaks in properties panel
• [UI] Elements are mis-aligned in the welcome screen and the preferences popup
• [UI] Panel titles have incorrect width
• [UI] Scrolling is sometimes broken in the Properties panel
• [UI] Splash screen has incorrect ratio and is blurry
• [UI] The fullscreen mode is not fullscreen
• [UI] Undocked panels are always on top even when the application is not active on MacOS
• [UI] Update welcome screen banner image
• [Content] Tiling filter doesn't process the ambient occlusion channel
• [Content] Quilt Stitch issue with the welt assembly seam selection and diamond pattern
• [Content] Emboss filter works in 256px by 256px
• [Content] Fix tiling issue with the Floor tiles when the offset is greater than 0

Known Issues:

• [Realtime Engine 2021] Heavy computation, crash the application
• [Realtime Engine 2021] Realtime Engine 2021 will crash on Windows machine with both AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU

3.0.0 Waffle

(Released: June 23, 2021)

Added:

• [Branding] Substance Alchemist becomes Adobe Substance 3D Sampler
• [Branding] New application icons
• [UI] New User Experience and User Interface
• [UI] New Splashscreen
• [UI] Panels are undockable and dockable in the interface
• [UI] Dock up to 3 panels in the same column
• [UI] Dock up to 3 panels in the same panel (Tabs)
• [UI] Undock panels to create a separate window in the same or a different screen
• [UI] Closed panels pop-over when clicking on their icons
• [UI] Re-arrange your left and right bar by moving panels icons
• [UI] New toolbar to access directly specific filters (Crop, Transform, Perspective Transform, Clone Stamp)
• [UI] New "Get Content" button in the left bar
• [UI] Import files directly in your assets with the Get Content button
• [UI] Import files directly to your Layers with the Get Content button
• [UI] Access directly Adobe Substance 3D Assets website with the Get Content button
• [UI] Resolution widget is now directly accessible in the viewport
• [UI] All UI elements now are loaded dynamically
• [UI] Shortcut - Use "2" to toggle the visibility of the 2D view
• [UI] Shortcut - Use "3" to toggle the visibility of the 3D view
• [Welcome Screen] Create a project in one-click with the New button
• [Welcome Screen] New artwork banner
• [Project] All projects are now associated to a unique file
• [Project] New project file extension .ssa
• [Project] Save as a project will ask you to select where to save your project
• [Project] Closing Sampler will ask you to save your project if not saved
• [Project] Closing Sampler will ask you to save your project if there are modifications since the last save
• [Project] The name of your project is displayed above the viewport
• [Project] The project name is in italics with a star if it is not saved or if it contains modifications since the last save
• [Project] Open a .ssa project file directly from your OS explorer
• [Project] Open a .sbsar from your OS explorer will launch Sampler with a new project with this .sbsar file ready to use
• [Project] Open a .alch (legacy Substance Alchemist file) from your OS explorer
• [Project Panel] New panel that will contain all assets created within a project
• [Project Panel] Create an asset (material or environment light) using the + icon
• [Project Panel] Right-click on asset opens a context menu
• [Project Panel] From the right-click context menu, you can delete an asset
• [Project Panel] From the right-click context menu, you can duplicate an asset
• [Project Panel] From the right-click context menu, you can rename an asset
• [Project Panel] Switching between assets won't lose modifications
• [Resolution] You can now set non-square resolution for all your assets
• [Resolution] The resolution value is saved by asset within a project
• [Environment Light] Create environment light within Substance 3D Sampler
• [Environment Light] When creating an environment light, dragging and dropping image(s) will display the Environment Light Creation Template Window
• [Environment Light] In the Environment Light Creation Template, select Environment Import to assign your image to the environment in the 3D view
• [Environment Light] In the Environment Light Creation Template, select HDR merge to create an environment light from several 360-degrees images with different exposure
• [Environment Light] In the Environment Light Creation Template, select "Use as bitmap" to edit your image(s) before creating an environment light
• [Environment Light] Assign the environment usage in the Image Import layer to directly assign the image to the environment in the 3D view
• [Environment Light] In the 2D view for the environment channel, there is an automatic color correction to have the rendering appear the same as in the 3D view
• [Environment Light] New dedicated content for environment light creation
• [Assets Panel] The Resources and Filters panels are merged in a new Assets panel
• [Assets Panel] The Assets panel now supports the following asset types: materials, filters and images
• [Assets Panel] All Starter Assets are accessible in the Starter Assets section
• [Assets Panel] Starter Assets section is read-only
• [Assets Panel] New "Your Assets" section
• [Assets Panel] "Your Assets" section is the place where you can import all your resources
• [Assets Panel] All assets in "Your assets" are added in a specific folder in your Documents
• [Assets Panel] Connect local folders in the Assets panel to add new sections
• [Assets Panel] The search will search in the current folder and its subfolders
• [Assets Panel] Navigate between folders and subfolders with breadcrumbs
• [Assets Panel] Filter the current folder by material, by filter or by image
• [Assets Panel] Combine several filters to get only materials and images
• [Assets Panel] Change the display by switching between a grid or a list
• [Assets Panel] Filters are represented with their icon
• [Assets Panel] Images are represented with their preview
• [Assets Panel] Increasing the width will change the layout of the panel with a specific view to navigate between folders
• [Assets Panel] On non read-only sections, delete an asset by dragging an dropping it on the bin icon
• [Assets Panel] Right-click on asset opens a context menu
• [Assets Panel] From the right-click context menu, access the asset metadata (name, category, location)
• [Assets Panel] From the right-click context menu, delete the asset (only available on non read-only sections)
• [Assets Panel] From the right-click context menu, browse your asset in Adobe Bridge
• [Layers Panel] New icon to directly add a base material on top of your layers
• [Layers Panel] Shortcut - Shift + B will add a base material on top of your layers
• [Layers Panel] Layers now have a thumbnail preview (Material thumbnail, filter icon or Image preview)
• [Properties Panel] New design of the Properties panel title with the asset name and the asset thumbnail
• [Properties Panel] Filter Layers now support presets
• [Properties Panel] On Image Import Layer, right-click on the image preview to edit the image in Photoshop
• [Adobe Bridge] Browse your Asset in Adobe Bridge, will launch Bridge at the location of the asset
• [Adobe Photoshop] Edit in Adobe Photoshop will open the image in Photoshop ready to be edited
• [Adobe Photoshop] At each save in Adobe Photoshop, the edited image will be reloaded in Sampler
• [Substance 3D Designer] Assets sent from Adobe Substance 3D Designer will arrive directly in the "Your Assets" section of the Assets panel
• [Export] Send assets directly to Adobe Substance 3D Painter and Adobe Substance 3D Stager
• [Export] Send materials and environment lights to Adobe Substance 3D Painter
• [Export] Send environment lights to Adobe Substance 3D Stager
• [Rendering] New material properties are now supported and rendered in 3D
• [Rendering] Adding Sheen support (Sheen color, Sheen opacity and Sheen roughness)
• [Rendering] Adding Coating support (Coat color, Coat Roughness, Coat Normal, Coat Specular Level and Coat IOR)
• [Rendering] Adding Anisotropy support (Anisotropy Level and Anisotropy Angle)
• [Rendering] Adding Specular Edge Color support
• [Rendering] Activate these new properties in the Channel Settings panel
• [Rendering] Introduction of a new Realtime Engine (2021) renderer in Beta
• [Rendering] Switch between the two Renderer versions in the Viewer Settings panel
• [Rendering] The Realtime Engine (2021) renderer supports translucency, absorption and scattering material properties
• [Rendering] The Realtime Engine (2021) renderer introduces a new way to compute shadows from the environment light
• [Rendering] The Realtime Engine (2021) renderer computes in realtime the irradiance of the environment light
• [Shader Settings Panel] New Shader Settings panel to tweak specific material shader parameters
• [Shader Settings Panel] New parameters (Normal scale, height scale, height level, Emission intensity, IOR, Coat normal intensity and Coat IOR)
• [Shader Settings Panel] Specific parameters for the Realtime Engine 2021 (Subsurface Scattering, Scattering Distance, Red Shift and Rayleigh Scattering)
• [Shader Settings Panel] The settings values are saved per asset
• [Viewer Settings Panel] Added a preview of the default environment lights
• [Viewer Settings Panel] Added a preview of the default meshes
• [Viewer Settings Panel] New environment opacity parameter
• [Viewer Settings Panel] New environment blur parameter (specific to the Realtime Engine 2021 renderer)
• [Localization] New translations in German and French
• [Content] New default starter materials
• [Content] New default environment lights
• [Content] All filters have been updated, cleaned, and optimized
• [Content] The Adjustment filter has been split into several filters
• [Content] New Brightness/Contrast filter
• [Content] New Hue/Saturation filter
• [Content] New Vibrance filter
• [Content] New Sharpen filter
• [Content] New Normal/Height adjustment
• [Content] New Panels filter
• [Content] New Smudge filter
• [Content] New Weaves filter
• [Content] New Warp transform filter
• [Content] New Height to AO filter
• [Content] New Height to Normal filter
• [Content] Color Replace - Replace in new supported channels (Sheen, Coating, Anisotropy,...)
• [Content] Color variation - Manual mode to select exactly the colors to change
• [Content] Tiling - option to visualize the seams cut
• [Content] Tiling - option to paint the seams cut for a perfect tiling
• [Content] Match - option to add a material to match its color and its roughness
• [Content] Match - it now works on images to match the color of another image
• [Content] Environment ligth - New Color Temperature filter
• [Content] Environment ligth - New Exposure filter
• [Content] Environment ligth - New Exposure Preview filter
• [Content] Environment ligth - New Nadir Patch filter
• [Content] Environment ligth - New Nadir Extract filter
• [Content] Environment ligth - New Lights filters (Sphere, Line, Shape, Plane)
• [Content] Environment ligth - New Panorama Patch filter
• [Content] Environment ligth - New Straighten Horizon filter
• [Content] Environment ligth - New HDR merge filter

Known Issues:

• [Realtime Engine 2021] Changing the layout, crash the application
• [Realtime Engine 2021] Heavy computation, crash the application
• [Panels] MacOS - Undocked panels are in front of all applications
• [Widgets] Transform and Positions widgets can disappear. Hide and Unhide the layer to make them appear.
• [Export] SBSAR export of an environment light loses the 32bit depth precision
• [Assets Panel] Assets can be highlighted when opening a folder
• [Properties Panel] Resetting the parameters doesn't reset the combobox UI
• [Localization] Changing language doesn't affect the project panel until it's recreated

Version 2

2.3.2 (2020.3.2) Vermicelli

(Released: February 23, 2021)

Added:

• [Localization] Japanese support

Fixed:

• [Layers] Tweaking a material in the embroidery filter loses the embroidery image

Known Issues:

• Usage of Image to Material (AI powered) on high resolution images can be slow
• Content Aware Fill filters are slow in high resolution
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific evalue in a slider
• Impossible to save twice the exact same material layer stack

2.3.1 (2020.3.1) Vermicelli

(Released: December 17, 2020)

Added:

• [Engine] Substance Engine update
• [Application] Environment variable to disable specific features
• [Content] Replace color - New Advanced segmentation option
• [Content] Floor Tiles - new patterns and options available
• [Content] Embroidery - Complete revamp of the filter
• [Content] Adjustment - New metallic parameter + opacity safe transform correction

Fixed:

• [Layers] Cannot import twice the same custom filter
• [Layers] Cannot use image input with the brush tool
• [Export] Export .jpg instead of .jpeg
• [UI] Update welcome screen image credits
• [UI] Fix invisible separator in menus
• [UI] Radio buttons display a tooltip when they are truncated
• [UI] Typo: Starter Materials
• [Application] UTF-8 characters in asset names do not work
• [Localization] Disable italic font style for chinese locale
• [Localization] Localized string split into 2 lines
• [Localization] Adjust folder name and replace with ellipsis if it's too long
• [Localization] Format numbers with thousand separator
• [Localization] Localize date and time display
• [Localization] Localize color picker on Windows
• [Content] Transform - With the safe transformation activated, the normal rotates correctly every 45°
• [Content] Surface relief - Fix tiling issue with perlin fractal noise (advanced noise)
• [Content] Brickwall Pattern - Height input in 16bit
• [Content] Material Icon Render - Specular reflections issue
• [Content] Color Variation - No color shift between color inputs and the result
• [Content] Color Variation - Performance update

Known Issues:

• Usage of Image to Material (AI powered) on high resolution images can be slow
• Content Aware Fill filters are slow in high resolution
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific evalue in a slider
• Impossible to save twice the exact same material layer stack

2.3.0 (2020.3.0) Vermicelli

(Released: October 26, 2020)

Added:

• [Image to Material] Support of NVIDIA RTX 3000 series
• [Image to Material] New parameters to control the geometry details
• [Image to Material] New parameters to control the roughness
• [Image to Material] New parameters to control the delighting intensity
• [Thumbnails] New thumbnail generator based on Substance Designer's PBR renderer
• [Thumbnails] Update base materials and atlases to embed their thumbnail
• [Thumbnails] Retrieve the thumbnail from the .sbsar file if it exists
• [Thumbnails] Change thumbnail quality in the Preferences
• [Engine] Updated to Substance Engine version 8
• [Localization] Chinese localization
• [UI] Experimental Spot Colors Picker
• [Content] New Environment Map - Studio 06
• [Content] Add Atlas Generator filter
• [Content] Add Atlas Splitter filter
• [Content] Add Discarded Gums filter
• [Content] Add Fingerprints filter
• [Content] Add Scratches filter
• [Content] Add Surface Relief filter (replace height modulation filter)
• [Content] Add Warp filter
• [Content] Add Invert filter
• [Content] Add Colorize filter
• [Content] Add Replace Color fitler
• [Content] Transform - Add the possibility to deactivate the transformation on a specific channel
• [Content] Transform - Add rotation when safe transform is activated
• [Content] Color Variation - Add a segmentation option to choose how to distribute the colors

Fixed:

• [Layers] Properly update UI when doing multiple undo/redo actions
• [Layers] Prevent crashes when doing multiple undo/redo actions
• [Layers] Crash when using Image to Material (AI Powered), with log: invalid device ordinal
• [Filters] Improve NVIDIA graphics card detection for NVidia specific features
• [Application] Crash when closing the application
• [Application] Fix VRAM amount detection on MacOS
• [Export] Some export presets are sometimes missing
• [Content] Oil Paint Effect - Fix height range with high displacement amplitude
• [Content] Make It Tile Advanced - No washed out basecolor at export
• [Content] Make It Tile Advanced - White mask on the basecolor when the AO is too strong
• [Content] Adjustment - It works now on images (scan1, ...)

Known Issues:

• Usage of Image to Material (AI powered) on high resolution images can be slow
• Content Aware Fill filters are slow in high resolution
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific evalue in a slider
• Impossible to save twice the exact same material layer stack

2.2.1 (2020.2.1) Udon

(Released: July 21, 2020)

Added:

• [Layers] In App Error message when Image to Material (AI-Powered) is out of memory

Fixed:

• [Layers] Image to Material (AI-Powered) does not work with Specular/Glossiness workflows
• [Layers] Crashes when out of video memory while using Image to Material (AI-Powered)
• [Layers] Disk cache is not used for display when opening a stack
• [Layers] Detection of Nvidia RTX 8000
• [Layers] It is sometimes impossible to move a layer outside a Splatter input
• [Layers] Disk cache is not used when inserting a stack in a stack
• [Layers] Some channel usages are computed although they are not used
• [Layers] Blank outputs are created sometimes when importing images
• [2D View] Switching to another layer with Draw mode active blocks pan and zoom
• [Content] Snow - 8bit issue on the normal map
• [Content] Pavement Pattern - 8 bits issue on the normal map
• [Content] Equalizer - 8 bits issue on the normal map
• [Content] Gravel Generator - 8 bits issue on the normal map
• [Content] Floor Tiles - Handle opacity and specular level
• [Content] Blender cycles eeve export preset - invert normal map
• [Content] Correct issue with huge images with Image to Material (AI Powered)
• [Application] Crash when choosing "Backup and Restart" on database error
• [Application] Crash when clicking quickly on the same asset
• [Application] Rare crashes on exit
• [Application] Crash when dropping files on the Welcome screen
• [Application] Crash when a corrupted environment file is loaded
• [Application] Rare crash when rapidly switching rendered asset
• [Application] Freeze when exiting while an asset is computing
• [Application] Rare crash on startup on macos
• [Application] Deadlock when closing the application soon after startup
• [Rendering] 3D view sometimes flickers
• [UI] Color picker and random seed widgets are not aligned with the rest of the tweaks
• [Rendering] Wrong computation time displayed
• [Export] Some export presets are sometimes missing

Known Issues:

• Usage of Image to Material (AI powered) on high resolution images can be slow
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Content Aware Fill filters are slow in high resolution
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific evalue in a slider
• Impossible to save twice the exact same material layer stack

2.2.0 (2020.2.0) Udon

(Released: June 15, 2020)

Added:

• [Create] New Image to Material (AI powered) filter available on Windows and Linux
• [Create] Rename Bitmap to Material to Image to Material (B2M)
• [Image Import] New Material Creation Template Pop-up
• [Image Import] New "Add a base material" option
• [Image Import] Be able to drag and drop additional images in the Material Creation Template
• [Image Import] Be able to remove images in the Material Creation Template
• [Image Import] Assign channel to imported bitmaps automatically based on their filename
• [Image Import] Be able to invert normal maps
• [2D View] Introduction of a painting mode
• [2D View] The painting tiles
• [2D View] Set a greyscale value for the brush color
• [2D View] Pan and zoom while painting
• [2D View] X shortcut to invert brush greyscale value
• [2D View] [ and ] shortcuts to change the brush size
• [2D View] Ctrl (or Cmd) + Mouse wheel change the brush size
• [2D View] It is now possible to modify the source position when using Clone Patch
• [Layers] Shift + drag and drop to auto scatter atlases
• [Layers] Alt + drag and drop inserts a material as a decal
• [Layers] Expose easily transform matrices from Substance Designer
• [Layers] Dropping textures in a non-empty stack automatically assigns to the correct channels
• [Layers] New type of layer: Compound Filters
• [Parameters] Support Substance string inputs
• [UI] Added drop shadows for popups and menus
• [UI] New Color Widget with right click options (clear, copy, paste)
• [UI] New Image Widget with Painting tool option
• [UI] Be able to paint over an imported image in an image widget
• [Rendering] New default camera position
• [Export] Substance files are exported for Substance Designer 2020.1.2 (10.1.2)
• [Performance] Better application startup time
• [Performance] Improve asynchronous tasks handling
• [Performance] Improve layer stack performance when adding, removing or moving layers
• [Performance] Image to Material (AI powered) runs faster on RTX GPUs
• [Content] New meshes: Female T-Shirt, Male T-Shirt, Shoe
• [Content] New Blend Mode - Per Channel Blend
• [Content] Opacity blend height correction with 2 new parameters (height position and height scale)
• [Content] Add Height Adjustments in Height Blend mode
• [Content] Use Height information option in the Custom Mask Blend
• [Content] New Perspective Correction Tool
• [Content] Pattern Generator - Add a parameter to invert the pattern
• [Content] Pattern Generator - Add a new parameter Override Material Details
• [Content] New Decal filter
• [Content] New Moss filter
• [Content] New Cracks filter
• [Content] New PBR Validate filter
• [Content] New Floor Tiles filter
• [Content] New Quilt Stich filter
• [Content] Atlas Scatter - Add Custom Mask input to enable painting option
• [Content] Dirt - Add Custom Mask input to enable painting option
• [Content] CLO export preset
• [Content] VStitcher export preset
• [Content] Unity HDRP presets export a detailMap

Fixed:

• [Layers] Imported images are loaded too many times
• [Layers] Crash when creating a clone patch at the bottom of the stack
• [Layers] Adding a material at the bottom of the stack makes it unstable
• [Layers] Filter after image import works improperly
• [Layers] workflow_type value is not updated when switching the workflow between projects with a custom filter
• [Layers] Disable "remove layer" button when no layer is selected
• [Layers] Crash when loading an asset containing a Clone Patch
• [Layers] Normal to Height filter crashes on MacOs
• [Application] Crash when loading back and forth environment maps
• [Application] Performance issues when some graphics tablet driver is installed
• [Application] EXR 32 bits files import are black
• [Application] Crashes when loading and unloading assets
• [Application] Crash when switching from explore to create
• [Application] Target collection when saving a material is not from current project
• [Application] Fix backup and restart
• [Image Import] Properly import grayscale images
• [Content] New filters for new matrix handling
• [Content] Imported custom filters are visible in the quick access bar
• [Content] Fix color shift with the Make it tile advanced filter
• [Performance] Opening a color dialog is slow and recomputes the current layer
• [UI] Keyboard shortcuts sometimes don't work
• [2D View] Content Aware Fill needs a useless first click to work
• [Resources] Folders in local disks are still watched for updates after removing them
• [Resources] Deleting a linked folder from filesystem doesn't remove it
• [Export] Custom usages in custom export presets are not exported
• [Export] Exporting .sbsar file with special characters in path fails

Known Issues:

• Repetetive recomputations of Image to Material (AI powered) can trigger a crash (out of memory)
• Repetetive recomputations of the Delighter can trigger a crash (out of memory)
• Usage of Image to Material (AI powered) on high resolution images can be slow
• Usage of Image to Material (AI powered) on GPU with low VRAM can trigger a crash (out of memory)
• Image to Material (AI powered) is not available on PBR Specular/Glossiness
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Content Aware Fill filters are slow in high resolution
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific evalue in a slider
• Impossible to save twice the exact same material layer stack

2.1.1 (2020.1.1) Tiramisu

(Released: April 01, 2020)

Added:

• [Project] Export and import metadata
• [Application] Ctrl+S now saves a preset in Explore
• [Performance] Use render cache instead of recomputing saved materials for resolutions up to 2k

Fixed:

• [UI] Fixed computing indicator in the viewport
• [UI] Entering Negative values in sliders is fixed
• [UI] Combo boxes: keyboard arrows and scrollbar now work
• [UI] Keep the selected channel when switching between "Material Outputs" and "Layer Inputs" in the 2D view
• [Layers] Fixed crash when adding custom channels in Base Material
• [Layers] Crash when manipulating layers
• [Layers] Custom channels are not displayed with a saved material
• [Application] Fixed rare crash when importing an asset
• [Application] Crash on exit
• [Application] Combo boxes now show correct values when switching presets
• [Export] Renamed Enscape preset to Enscape Revit
• [Export] Importing an export preset after removing it works
• [Export] Crash at export
• [Rendering] Fixed rendering when the base color is in 16bit half float format
• [Project] Do not crash when importing corrupted package
• [Project] Handle 2019.1.4 to 2.x.x migration when Create has never been opened
• [Project] Fix a crash when importing the same project twice
• [Project] Fix a crash when importing projects
• [Resources] Custom filters imported in previous versions work
• [Resources] Materials with the same name no longer erase each other
• [Resources] Crash when linking a local folder
• [Resources] Starter Materials user-created folders are no longer removed after a restart
• [Inspire] Fix material/collection drop area and add a warning message if using an unsaved material

Known Issues:

• Content Aware Fill filters are slow in high resolution
• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific evalue in a slider

2.1.0 (2020.1.0) Tiramisu

(Released: March 12, 2020)

Added:

• [Export] Export preset selction to pack your textures for renderers and game engines
• [Export] Export preset to Unreal Engine 4
• [Export] Export preset to Unity Standard
• [Export] Export preset to Unity HDRP
• [Export] Export preset to Blender Cycles/Eevee
• [Export] Export preset to Arnold 5
• [Export] Export preset to Corona Renderer
• [Export] Export preset to Enscape
• [Export] Export preset to Keyshot 9
• [Export] Export preset to Redshift
• [Export] Export preset to Vray Next
• [Export] Export preset to Lens Studio
• [Export] Export preset to Spark AR Studio
• [Export] Export preset to PBR Specular Glossiness from PBR Metallic Roughness
• [Export] New export UI
• [Export] Remember Export settings
• [Export] Import and manage your custom export presets
• [Export] Delete and replace your custom export presets
• [Export] Rename your custom export presets
• [Export] Set the default export resolution to the current resolution
• [Export] Add the choice to create a subfolder to the export location
• [Export] Warning message before replacing existing files
• [Application] New version numbering scheme
• [Application] Open Create at launch, and change labs order
• [Welcome Screen] New welcome banner
• [Project] Open last project at launch
• [UI] New combo box style
• [2D view] F shortcut to focus in the 2d view
• [Filters] Added support for alchemist::parameterVisibility tag in Substance graphs
• [Filters] Have a global tweak to manage parameter visibility based on your workflow
• [Resources] New command line option to setup resources and linked folders with a configuration file
• [Version checker] Configuration of the version check
• [Content] New starter materials
• [Content] Bitmap to Material - Add the possibility to define the metallic channel (uniform, custom image import, color picking)
• [Content] Adjustment - Add the support of the PBR specular/glossiness workflow
• [Content] Atlas Scatter - New parameters

Fixed:

• [Project] Crash when importing the same project twice
• [Project] Fixed crash when importing and opening projects several times
• [Application] Crash when loading an unnamed material
• [Application] Recognize missing files when re-importing them
• [Application] Fix random crash on shutdown
• [Application] Fixed rare crash when unloading an material in Create
• [Application] Fixed random crash when using UI controls
• [Application] Fixed export of log files to the Desktop on Windows 10
• [UI] Export panel has the wrong size when you open it in Create
• [UI] Open project with a single click
• [UI] Correctly set minimum and maximum slider values
• [UI] Show label of the channel usages instead of ids
• [UI] Clicking a material always opens/closes the tweak panel
• [UI] Fix hidden layers colors
• [UI] Welcome Screen buttons improvements
• [Layers] Less unnecessary recomputes
• [Layers] Crashes when using Clone Patch
• [Layers] Selecting an image import layer no longer triggers a compute
• [Layers] Clone Patch and Content Aware Fill layers no longer recompute when selected
• [Channel settings] Enabling or disabling usages now trigger a rendering
• [Resources] Prevent freeze when mass clicking on a stack in the library
• [Resources] Performance hit when re-adding a previously added linked folder
• [Resources] Fixed a crash when trying to open a deleted .sbsar file
• [Performance] Avoid loading materials to access their parameters
• [Performance] Backup assets only when used in a project or in an authored material
• [Export] Fixed materials in export queue sometimes skipped or exported with wrong parameters
• [2D View] Restored pan and zoom
• [Content] Parquet Pattern takes into account the Ambient Occlusion channel
• [Content] Paint - Display mask input when enabling custom mask
• [Content] Stonewall Pattern - Remove possible banding effects in the normal map
• [Content] Height Modulation - Correct double base color entries in the 2d view

Known Issues:

• Content Aware Fill filters are slow in high resolution
• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific evalue in a slider

Version 1

1.1.4 (2019.1.4) Sesame

(Released: January 30, 2020)

Added:

• [Resources] Confirmation prompt when clearing a resources folder

Fixed:

• [Layers] Move layers to two and more layers below or above
• [Create] Allocation of enough VRAM budget to have good performances

Known Issues:

• Importing a lot of resources can really slow down Substance Alchemist
• Content Aware Fill filters are slow in high resolution
• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific evalue in a slider
• Normal to Height filter can crash on MacOS

1.1.3 (2019.1.3) Sesame

(Released: January 28, 2020)

Added:

• [Workflow] Support of multiple workflows
• [Workflow] Support of PBR Specular Glossiness workflow
• [Workflow] New Channel Settings panel
• [Workflow] Workflow selection at project creation
• [Channel Settings] Activate/Deactivate specific channel computation
• [Channel Settings] Display list of custom channels available in the current material
• [Channel Settings] Automatic computation of custom channels when required
• [Channel Settings] Force/Block computation of custom channels
• [Layers] New UI of material input placeholder in Atlas Scatter and Splatter filters
• [Layers] Image Input parameter of a filter can be fed by underneath layers
• [Layers] Display a notification when some layers are out of date
• [Layers] Possibility to update to the latest version of outdated layers via the notification
• [Project] New metadata fields at project creation
• [Inspire] Generated variations are specific to a project
• [2D View] Switch between the Layer inputs, layer outputs, and the material outputs
• [Welcome Screen] Add Import project (.alch) option
• [Preferences] New Preferences window to set cache location and analytics privacy settings
• [UI] New UI buttons
• [Performance] Overall improvement of the parallelization system
• [Performance] Optimization of the number of material computes
• [Engine] Substance Engine update
• [Framework] Upgrade to Qt 5.13
• [MacOS] Global improvements of macOS Catalina support
• [Content] Adjustment filter - Normal intensity and invert parameters

Fixed:

• [Layers] Unset Image Input parameter when deleting the layer
• [Layers] Fix a crash when adding a clone patch layer
• [Layers] Fix some crashes when blending layers stack materials in other layer stack materials
• [Export] Channels selection for export is now respected
• [Resources] Do not crash when navigating in the Resources panel
• [Resources] Fix crash when importing corrupted Substance files
• [Resources] Reduce the number of crashes when loading large folders
• [Thumbnail] Thumbnail computation doesn't freeze the interface
• [Image Import] Uniformization of image type supported across the application
• [Preset] Save the description when creating a preset from an SBSAR
• [Inspire] Fix image drag and drop
• [Application] Fix crashes at exit
• [Application] Fix crashes at the exit when exporting materials
• [UI] Fixes and improvements
• [UI] Rename temporary asset to "unsaved material"
• [Content] Global update and cleaning of all filters

Known Issues:

• Importing a lot of resources can really slow down Substance Alchemist
• Content Aware Fill filters are slow in high resolution
• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific evalue in a slider
• Normal to Height filter can crash on MacOS

1.1.2 (2019.1.2) Sesame

(Released: December 11, 2019)

Added:

• [Layers] Save and Save as options are accessible via the interface in the layers stack toolbar
• [Resources] Clearer breadcrumb in the Resources panel to navigate through folders
• [Resources] Maintain back button pressed to access all upper folders
• [Resources] Add reload of imported materials option to update them to the latest version
• [Layers] Possibility to change the image in the Image import layer
• [Layers] Possibility to define an image as a channel (base color, normal, height,...) in the Image import layer
• [Content] New Atlas Scatter filter to scatter new atlas elements from Substance Source
• [Content] New Oil Paint Effect filter
• [Content] New Channels Generation filter to generate height, ambient occlusion and roughness from base color and normal maps

Fixed:

• [UI] Reactivate tooltips on Layers stack toolbar
• [UI] Fix issue when typing two decimals in a slider value
• [Performance] Fix crash when switching quickly between materials
• [Export] Switching to another material before the end of an export does not crash anymore
• [Resources] Context menu is displayed on top of the material when you right-click on it
• [Layers] The 'Click here' link is working when the layer stack is empty
• [Presets] Remove save button in the tweak panel when it's a material created in Alchemist
• [Tweak] Information message displayed when it's a material created in Alchemist
• [Viewport] Default value of Specular Level texture is corrected to 0.04
• [File Menu] Fix and rename Save and Save as option
• [Engine] Update Substance engine version to avoid crash of some SBSAR files during import.
• [Content] Tiling filter is working on the ambient occlusion channel
• [Content] Crop filter is working on the ambient occlusion channel
• [Content] Water filter modifies gain the height map
• [Content] Correct tiling of the top material in the opacity blend mode
• [Content] Height of the top material is preserved in the opacity blend mode
• [Content] Possible to add a custom mask, custom pattern or a scale map in the Perforation filter
• [Content] Height Modulation filter forces height and normal maps in 16 bits
• [Content] Adjustment filter forces height and normal maps in 16 bits

Known Issues:

• Importing a lot of resources can really slow down Substance Alchemist
• Content Aware Fill filters are slow in high resolution
• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific evalue in a slider
• Normal to Height filter can crash on MacOS

1.1.1 (2019.1.1) Sesame

(Released: November 26, 2019)

Added:

• [Blend] New opacity Blend mode
• [Engine] New Substance Engine version

Fixed:

• [Layers] Fix crash while deleting a layer that is still computing
• [Layers] Fix crash while removing the bottom layer
• [Layers] Fix crash while the material name contains special characters
• [Layers] Stop computing every filters that use a widget
• [Layers] Avoid crash while using Clone Patch and Content Aware Fill filters
• [Layers] Fix crash while drag and droping a filter in a splatter input slots
• [Resources] Fix crash while linking local folders or importing resources in Substance Alchemist
• [Collection] Fix crash while switching rapidly between materials
• [UI] Fix crash while value is null or not valid in tiling, displacement sliders on the viewport
• [Inspire] Fix crash while accessing the Inspire tab
• [Inspire] Fix crash while inspiring on a just saved layers stack material
• [Performance] Heavy Substance materials and Filters (Tiling) compute faster
• [Help] Fix export log file
• [Content] Randomizer filter works on all channels
• [Content] Multiangle workflow takes all scans into account
• [Content] AO Blend correct blending
• [Content] Curvature Blend correct blending
• [Content] Color ID Blend correct blending
• [Content] Custom Mask Blend correct blending
• [Content] Fix Adjustment filter for roughness modification
• [Content] Fix Base Material filter for custom normal channels upload
• [Content] Fix Custom Import pattern of the Embossing filter

Known Issues:

• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific value in a slider
• Normal to Height filter can crash on MacOS

1.1.0 (2019.1.0) Sesame

(Released: November 04, 2019)

Added:

• [Project] Creation of a project
• [Project] Introduction of the .alch file format that contains project data
• [Project] Export a .alch project containing the collections and their materials
• [Project] Import a .alch project
• [Project] Open recent projects
• [Welcome Screen] A welcome screen is displayed at the launch
• [Welcome Screen] Create a project from the welcome screen
• [Welcome Screen] Access the list of all your projects in the welcome screen
• [Welcome Screen] Quick links to access the documentation, the about popup and license management
• [File Menu] Integration of a file Menu
• [File Menu] Access the project commands from the File tab and the save of the layer stack
• [File Menu] Access the undo and redo commands from the Edit tab
• [File Menu] The previous help menu moved in the file menu under the Help tab
• [Layers] New architecture of the layer stack
• [Layers] New UI of the layer stack
• [Layers] Select the blend mode directly on the toolbar
• [Layers] Access separately the blend parameters and the material parameters
• [Layers] Add materials directly in dedicated inputs of the Splatter filter in the layer stack
• [Layers] Change scan order directly in the Image import layer
• [Viewport] Control of the camera field of view
• [Viewport] Possibility to switch between orthographic or perspective camera
• [Viewport] Display resolution and bit depth information for each channel
• [Resources] Base Materials is opened per default
• [Cache] Locate your thumbnail cache folder
• [Cache] Locate your render cache folder
• [Panels] Material Settings panel is temporarily hidden
• [Workflow] Specular/Glossiness temporarily deactivated
• [MacOS] Catalina OS version notarization
• [Content] New version of the Delighter filter
• [Content] New Image Content Aware Fill filter
• [Content] New Material Content Aware Fill filter
• [Content] Transform filter has a safe transform option

Fixed:

• All previous bugs related to Create are invalid today with new UI and architecture release
• Tooltips don't hide the icons in the top bar (3D, 2D, 2D/3D)
• [Content] Splatter filter accepts Atlas with complete height map
• [Content] Transform filter works on images (scan1, scan2,...)

Known Issues:

• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific value in a slider
• Normal to Height filter can crash on MacOS

Beta

0.8.1-beta Quinoa

(Released: August 19, 2019)

Added:

• Ability to send Substance Source assets from the launcher to Project Substance Alchemist

Fixed:

• [Create] Some filters were listed in the quick accessor but not in the filter panel
• [MacOS] Fixed some crashes at exit

Known Issues:

• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Fast visibility toggle of a Delighter stage is not recommended
• Tif images are not showing in Properties panel in the Image import layer
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific value in a slider
• Normal to height filter can crash on MacOS
• Can still crash randomly when exiting on MacOS

0.8.0-beta Quinoa

(Released: August 08, 2019)

Added:

• [Resources] Connect and mirror your material folders on your local disks
• [Resources] Browse your materials folders and their subfolders
• [Resources] Detach your material resources panel in a separate window to see your resources in full screen
• [Resources] New Resources panel Layout to support folders and subfolders navigation
• [Resources] Use the breadcrum to navigate through your folders
• [Resources] Force the synchronization of your local folder with the Sync option accessible via righ-click
• [Resources] Disconnect your local folder with the Disconnect option accessible via righ-click
• [Manage] Display embedded tags of Substance files
• [Manage] Add, edit and delete tags of your materials
• [Manage] Rate your materials
• [Layers] Support Panorama output
• [Layers] You can delete Image inputs in the Image Import layer
• [Layers] Automatic selection of the new added layer
• [Layers] Automatic selection of the layer below after a layer deletion
• [UX] Keep left panels visibility when switching to another Lab
• [UX] Do not create a base layer or open the Material Workflow popup when importing images in a non-empty layers stack
• [UI] New Textfield style
• [UI] New SearchBox style
• [UI] New Panel header style
• [UI] New Busy indicator style
• [UI] New Layers stack background style
• [UI] Use Adobe Clean font
• [UI] Remove eyedropper icon placeholder of color input parameter
• [Performance] Busy indicator optimization
• [Content] New Pattern Generator filter
• [Content] New Blur filter

Fixed:

• [Inspire] Fix crash when using more than 10 colors
• [2D View] Fix scrollbar on the channel list of the 2D view
• [Viewer] Fix crash when importing a non power of 2 environment map
• [Content] Fix PNG import for custom pattern of Embossing and Perforation filters
• [Export] Fix normal and height 16 bits per channel export
• Fix an infinite loop when importing a material with two presets that have the same name
• Fix long file path display in the Base Material Layer

Known Issues:

• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Fast visibility toggle of a Delighter stage is not recommended
• Tif images are not showing in Properties panel in the Image import layer
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific value in a slider
• Normal to height filter can crash on MacOS
• Can crash randomly when exiting on MacOS

0.7.0-beta Pepper

(Released: June 13, 2019)

Added:

• [Filters] Access quickly to your filters by pressing the space bar
• [Filters] New dedicated panel to manage, browse and import your filters
• [Metadata] Right click on a material to see its metadata
• [Metadata] Right click on a material to see its location on your disk
• [Sliders] Animate sliders when you hover them by pressing Ctrl
• [Sliders] Stop and restart your sliders animation by pressing P
• [Export] SBSAR export follows Substance Source guidelines
• [License] Activate Substance Alchemist using an environment variable
• [UX] File dialog remembers the last file path selected
• [UX] Folder dialog remembers the last folder path selected
• [UI] Update Resources panel UI
• [UI] Update Search bar UI
• [UI] Create New material icon is updated
• [Help] URLs are updated to substance3d.com domain
• [Mesh] A Cloth mesh is now available
• [Content] New Corrosion Filter
• [Content] New Oxydation Filter
• [Content] New Moss Filter
• [Content] New Dust Filter
• [Content] New Brickwall pattern Filter
• [Content] New Stonewall pattern Filter
• [Content] New Wood Finish Filter
• [Content] New Metal Finish Filter
• [Content] New Snow Filter
• [Content] New Randomizer Filter
• [Content] You can now import your textures directly in the Base Material filter

Fixed:

• Fix a crash when saving the layer stack
• Possible to add a value above 1 in the environment rotation slider
• Do not lose blend parameters when a blend layer is transformed back and forth from blend layer to material layer
• Fix duplicates when generating variations of the same layer stack multiple times
• When re-opening a material, Alchemist remembers the modified ranges (min and max) of your sliders

Known Issues:

• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Fast visibility toggle of a Delighter stage is not recommended
• Custom Environment Import can become black
• Tif images are not showing in Properties panel in the Image import layer
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific value in a slider
• Normal to height filter can crash on MacOS

0.6.1-beta Orange

(Released: June 13, 2019)

Added:

• [Engine] Substance Engine update to be compatible with the latest Substance Designer version
• [License] Update license folder for first installations
• [Layers] Reload at any time your layer stack to update your custom filters

Fixed:

• [Data Compatibility] Preventive fix to limit data corruption at upgrade time

Known Issues:

• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Fast visibility toggle of a Delighter stage is not recommended
• Custom Environment Import can become black
• Tif images are not showing in Properties panel in the Image import layer
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific value in a slider

0.6.0-beta Orange

(Released: April 18, 2019)

Added:

• [Metadata] See and fill materials metadata in a dedicated tab
• [Collection] Create a collection directly from the search results
• [Media Publishing] Export a board of a collection
• [UX] Undo a tweak change or image import by pressing Ctrl+Z
• [UX] Redo a tweak change or image import by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Z
• [UI] New icons with a new style
• [Performance] New Session manager to better handle the tabs switching
• [Performance] Faster opening of the Image Import layer
• [Content] New Metal generic material
• [Content] New Rust material
• [Content] New Stone generic material
• [Content] Embossing filter update
• [Content] Embroidery filter update
• [Content] Paint filter update
• [Content] Delighter filter update

Fixed:

• [Content] Water filter is working in the Specular/Glossiness workflow
• Fix greyscale radio button in the activation pop-up
• Accept files containing coma character
• Fix small font issues on pop-up windows
• Fix transparency UI issue due to a conflict with the FXAA parameter of some NVIDIA cards
• Remove the focus of the field after entenring a value in a slider
• Allocate the minimum amount of VRAM to the delighter to reduce crashes
• Fix window freeze when resizing the application window
• Fixed a crash when the layer stack was deleted while being evaluated

Known Issues:

• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Fast visibility toggle of a Delighter stage is not recommended
• Custom Environment Import can become black
• Tif images are not showing in Properties panel in the Image import layer
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific value in a slider

0.5.4-beta Nacho

(Released: March 26, 2019)

Fixed:

• [Stack] Crash when removing a splatter layer
• [Data] Asset database gets corrupted when application crashes
• [Data] Substance Alchemist cannot start when the asset database is corrupted
• Random crash when importing Substance materials

Known Issues:

• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Fast visibility toggle of a Delighter stage will affect performance
• Custom Environment Import can become black
• Tif images are not showing in Properties panel in the Image import layer
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific value in a slider
• Default collection to save to can be empty

0.5.3-beta Nacho

(Released: March 19, 2019)

Added:

• Search by material name in the Resources panel
• [UI] Clone Tool new UI with brush size visualization
• [UI] Select and delete hidden stages
• [UI] New Textfield UI
• [Help] Access Substance Source, Substance Share and Substance academy websites
• [Content] New default materials with generators and atlas
• [Content] Bitmap to Material Update
• [Content] Dirt Update
• [Content] Rust Update
• [Content] New Embossing filter
• [Content] New Embroidery filter
• [Content] New Erode filter
• [Content] New Gravel Generator
• [Content] New Paint filter
• [Content] New Parquet Pattern filter
• [Content] New Pavement Pattern filter
• [Content] New Perforation filter
• [Content] New Splatter filter
• [Content] New Textile Wear filter
• [Content] New Transform filter

Fixed:

• [Viewport] Sphere mesh with tiling x2 on X
• [Viewport] Crash when loading your own environment
• [Viewport] Environment map are now using the exposure value too
• [Viewport] F shortcut doesn't reset camera angle
• [Export] SBS export works with latest Substance Designer 2018.3.3
• [Export] SBSAR export respects the same guidelines as Substance Source materials
• [UI] Scrollbars can be dragged
• Special characters are supported on folder and file paths
• Thumbnail is re-generated when you're saving your material

Known Issues:

• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Fast visibility toggle of a Delighter stage will affect performance
• Custom Environment Import can become black
• Tif images are not showing in Properties panel in the Image import layer
• Coma or point can be ignored when typing a specific value in a slider
• Default collection to save to can be empty

0.5.2-beta Nacho

(Released: March 07, 2019)

Added:

• Detection and usage of the high profile GPU

Fixed:

• Rotation parameter has a proper slider widget
• Fix the blue color line visiblity when drag and dropping materials
• Fix materials blending when dropping a material below the first layer
• Plug image inputs only if a custom image path is not set

Known Issues:

• Special characters in filepath prevent for saving of a material
• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Fast visibility toggle of a Delighter stage will affect performance
• Crash when loading your own environment

0.5.1-beta Nacho

(Released: March 04, 2019)

Fixed:

• Fix Crash report, bug report and licenses pop-ups

Known Issues:

• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Fast visibility toggle of a Delighter stage will affect performance
• Crash when loading your own environment

0.5.0-beta Nacho

(Released: February 28, 2019)

Added:

• [Layer stack] Layer re-ordering
• [Layer stack] Delete an hidden layer
• [Layer stack] Import a material directly at the position of your choice
• [Layer stack] Material input as a new filter parameter type
• [Performance] Substance Engine budget is dynamic for better performances
• [Performance] Better OpenGL performances especially on MacOS
• [Data] Faster data upgrade after a new version is released
• [Content] AI Delighter available on Windows 7 and Windows 8
• [Content] AI Delighter available on RTX GPU

Fixed:

• Fix possible crashes when quitting the application
• Export Pop-up opens faster when exporting large collections

Known Issues:

• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Fast visibility toggle of a Delighter stage will affect performance
• Crash when loading your own environment

0.4.0-beta Muffin

(Released: January 17, 2019)

Added:

• [Export] Substance archive (sbsar) export of your collection
• [Export] Substance file (sbs) export of your collection
• [Export] Export queue visible in the Export panel
• [Export] Name your collection or material before export
• [Data] Save As your material by pressing Ctrl+Shift+S
• [Data] Save your material by pressing Ctrl+S
• [Data] Collections and Materials are compatible across versions
• [Data] Update your material layer stack with up-to-date filters
• [Data] Hot reload of imported custom filters
• [UI] Visual feedback in the viewport while it's computing
• [UI] New button style
• [UI] Save pop-up displays the name of the active collection
• [UI] Modify source images of an Image(s) Import Layer
• [Content] Custom usages are now supported
• [Content] More images format are supported in image input parameters
• [Content] New Tiling Filter named Make It Tile Advanced
• [Content] Update of the Water filter

Fixed:

• Bitmap to Material handles the Specular/Glossiness workflow

Known Issues:

• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Delighter is not supported on RTX GPU card
• Fast visibility toggle of a Delighter stage will affect performance

0.3.1-beta Lasagna

(Released: December 17, 2018)

Fixed:

• Generate a color variation with 10 color extracted crashes
• Generate a color variation with a just saved layer stack crashes
• Incorrect links on the Substance Alchemist version update pop-up

Known Issues:

• Bitmap to Material doesn't handle the Specular/Roughness workflow
• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Fast visibility toggle of a Delighter stage will affect performance

0.3.0-beta Lasagna

(Released: December 12, 2018)

Added:

• [Export] New Export pop-up
• [Export] Export an entire collection
• [Export] Export Bitmaps at the format of your choice
• [Export] Export Bitmaps at the resolution of your choice
• [Export] Export only the channels of your choice
• [Export] Preview the estimation size of your export
• [Export] Preview the available size on your disk before exporting
• [UX] Actions on collection accessible using right-click
• [UX] Allow to unset an image or an asset in Inspire
• [UX] Substance Alchemist is launched maximized
• [Assets] New way of saving your materials in order to keep them persistent with next versions
• [Help] Access to the online documentation via the help menu
• [Performance] Faster color variations on complex materials created with Substance Alchemist
• [Performance] Reduce memory leaks when switching Labs
• [Content] Scale checker to diagnostic the physical size of your material
• [Content] Update Italien Venice Mosaic tile material
• [Content] Update Moss splatter

Fixed:

• No more default name when saving a material
• Filters parameters are lost after saving a material and reopening Substance Alchemist
• [Content] Fix from bottom and from top logic for AO and curvature blending

Known Issues:

• Materials created with a previous version won't be available in the new one.
• Bitmap to Material doesn't handle the Specular/Roughness workflow
• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Fast visibility toggle of a Delighter stage will affect performance

0.2.0-beta Kiwi

(Released: November 09, 2018)

Added:

• Viewer Settings are saved from one session to another
• Material Settings are saved from one session to another
• Fast loading of the Properties Panel
• [Log] Export log file via the help menu
• [UI]New Sliders Style
• [UI]Presets and Tweak panels are merged
• [UI]New Thumbnails style
• Displacement, Tiling and Shadows settings accessible directly in the viewport
• [Content] New Default Materials
• [Content] Moss Splatter update
• [Framework] Update Substance Engine Framework

Fixed:

• Deletion of your layer stack by switching Labs is fixed
• Loading time values displayed in the viewport are correct
• Material workflow default channels are correctly initialized
• Disable Custom Mesh Import
• Bitmap export
• [MacOS] Closing Substance Alchemist can need a "Force to quit"

Known Issues:

• Materials created with a previous version won't be available in the new one.
• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Fast visibility toggle of a Delighter stage will affect performance

0.1.1-beta Jam

(Released: October 24, 2018)

Added:

• BaseColor Delighter is now available
• Access Substance Alchemist information via the Help menu
• Get notified when a new version of Substance Alchemist is available
• The console is not visible anymore on Windows
• New Thumbnails style
• [MacOS] Substance Alchemist can be set in full screen
• [Filter] Import Custom mask to manage the blending between two materials
• [Filter] Control Moss scale
• [Filter] Clone Patch update

Fixed:

• Add an image in an image input in the parameter list updates outputs
• Import Custom filter doesn't add a black Ambient Occlusion and a black opacity

Known Issues:

• Materials created with a previous version won't be available in the new one.
• [MacOS] Closing Substance Alchemist can need a "Force to quit"
• Use of multiple delighters in one material is not recommended
• Delighter crashes with older NVIDIA drivers (Less than 400.x)
• Fast visibility toggle of a Delighter stage will affect performance
• Material export can crash

0.1.0-beta IceCream

(Released: October 17, 2018)

Added:

• Material Blend with 4 blend types (Height Blend, Sample Blend, Curvature Blend, AO Blend)
• Introduce Caching mechanism to optimize layer stack re-calculations
• Auto-selection of a material in Inspire if presents in the viewport
• Normal format centralized in the Material Settings panel
• Crop and Tiling Widgets controls (-90xB0,+90xB0, make square,...) cleaning
• New Snow filter

Fixed:

• Panel UI cleaning
• Viewport flickering when resizing window and panels
• Layer stack not recalculated when saved
• Assets naming in the interface use labels instead of graph names

Known Issues:

• Stretched liure by switching the layer visibility quickly
• Focus resets Camera angle