Substance Designer 2019.3.1 has been released and features tons of fixes!

Fixed:

• [Graph] Severe performance drop and freezes when tweaking a nested graph with "In-Context Editing" active
  
• [Graph] Cannot enter enum value out of [0, 99] in Integer1 tweak
  
• [Graph] Comment is not moved when the corresponding frame is displaced
  
• [Graph] Input names are missing on custom instance node
  
• [Graph] Thumbnails may be rendered when loading graph even if the corresponding option is disabled in the Preferences
  
• [2D View] Negative alpha shows checker no matter the display option
  
• [2D View] Surface conversion from 32f to 8bits fails with high values
  
• [2D View] Top/left skew and 'Make Square' set some coordinates to huge values in forward transformation matrices
  
• [2D View] UVs of all mesh objects are not displayed on UV sets other than "0"
  
• [Content] Bevel: Angular mode does not work correctly on tiling mask
  
• [Content] Flood Fill To Gradient: slope image value is not sampled in the middle of the shape
  
• [Content] Function; "Equality Boolean" is broken
  
• [Bakers] Artefacts when using automatic tonemapping in "Curvature From Mesh" baker in specific cases
  
• [Bakers] Crash in DXR when baking while no material is selected
  
• [Bakers] Performances issue in the 2D View when enabling the "info"
  
• [Engine] 'Pow' function outputs huge values when using very low input value and high exponent on SSE2 engine
  
• [Engine] Crash when using a high jpg compression on bitmap resources
  
• [Engine] Value Processor returns wrong $size value when inside a subgraph
  
• [Parameters] Empty pop-up appears when selecting an instance node with high number of parameters
  
• [Parameters] Integer value is not shown in drop-down parameter items
  
• [Parameters] Transform Matrix 'Edit' button is not available in Preview mode
  
• [Cooker] $size in ValueProcessor is wrong when inside a graph instance
  
• [Cooker] Outputsize is incorrect when value link passes through a dot node to an atomic node
  
• [UI] Button to display all items in the 2D View bottom bar is not visible
  
• [UI] Preview of picked RGB values display incorrect numbers when using Color Management
  
• [Export] 16f RGBA images are exported as grayscale
  
• [3D View] Cannot import OBJ with multiple spaces
  
• [Color Management] OCIO config is not taken into account when publishing sbsar
  
• [Color Widget] Color sliders ranges can expand exponentially in a specific case
  
• [Doc] "paramValue" section is incomplete in Sbs format reference
  
• [MDL] Color Widget in sbsar instances are not correct
  
• [Presets] Crash when updating presets in a specific case
  
• [PSD] FreeImage error when loading PSD files from recent versions of Photoshop
  
• [Resources] Crash when undoing Bitmap linking directly into graph
  
• [SVG] SVG nodes do not update automatically when using the vector tools

Substance Designer's Winter 2019 release is now available!
This is the last major release for owners of the 2019 version.

• Color Management, with OpenColorIO support. Ensure consistency between your materials and renders between Substance Designer and your renderer of choice with the popular ACES color profile.
  
  
• A new Curvature from Mesh baker provides much more accurate bakes with smoother results and better handling of intersecting geometry among other improvements.
  
  
• The Ambient Occlusion baker is also getting some love with a new Ground Plane option to simulate the occlusion generated by the ground under an asset.
  
  
• The new Atlas Tool is the perfect companion if you are working with scanned atlases, no matter their origin. This new node will automatically split all the elements of the atlas and allow you to easily scatter them on a material, with tons of control.
  
  
• Presets and Preview Mode have been improved as well, with better performance and a revamped interface.

Full changelist:

Added:

• [General] Support Color Management using OpenColorIO configuration file
  
• [Presets] Improve presets management
  
• [Presets] Synchronize 2D View Gizmos and Preview Sliders
  
• [Presets] Restore preview values when switching back to Preview mode
  
• [Presets] Keep preview mode active when editing other nodes, resources or graph
  
• [Presets] Undo works smoothly when navigating between the 3 presets tabs
  
• [Presets] Allow to Reset parameters to Graph's default or Preset's value in Preview mode
  
• [Presets] Improve pinning of parameters
  
• [Presets] Import/Export all Presets of a graph to a file
  
• [Bakers] New 'Curvature from mesh' baker based on ray tracing
  
• [Bakers] Add ground plane option in 'AO from Mesh' baker
  
• [Bakers] Add match by name option to ignore backface in 'AO from Mesh' baker
  
• [Content] New Atlas Scatter node
  
• [Content] New Color Space Conversion nodes and functions (ACEScg)
  
• [Content] Improve naming consistency for nodes with Color/Grayscale versions
  
• [Graph] Improve performances in Presets Preview mode
  
• [Graph] Add $(colorspace) macro to export graph outputs option
  
• [Parameters] When a parameter is set to invisible, hide the corresponding gizmo in the 2D View
  
• [Parameters] Do not add 'Graph input group' as a prefix when exposing parameters
  
• [Parameters] Add tooltip for VisibleIf in Graph parameters
  
• [AXF] Update AXF SDK to v1.6

Fixed:

• [Linux] Designer does not launch on CentOS 8 due to Qt platform loading failure.
  
• [Linux] WARNING: Freetype library has been removed from SD application: Users with CentOS version <= 7.5 has to install it manually.
  
• [AxF] Crash when importing files created with newer AxF versions
  
• [2DView] Brush textures fed by a resource are not applied
  
• [2DView] Crash when modifying inputs of instanced graph with position tweak
  
• [3DView] Crash when canceling the "Load..." action
  
• [3DView] Add Color Space option for emission textures in GLSLFX Shaders
  
• [Bakers] Maps fed through resources are ignored during baking
  
• [Bakers] 'World Space Direction' options are incorrectly locked
  
• [Bitmap] EXR bitmaps with floating point values are rendered as a black image
  
• [Content] Flood Fill to index: shape detection fails in a particular case
  
• [Content] Crop: sampling issue when the crop node has a lower resolution than the input
  
• [General] Crash when closing Designer while generating the Library
  
• [Graph] Bitmap nodes do not reflect the compression of the associated bitmap
  
• [Graph] Cache is not cleared when clearing node thumbnails after first render
  
• [Graph] Node size incorrectly invalidated
  
• [Graph] Crash when im some cases when changing input connections on a Pixel Processor Node
  
• [MDL Graph] Failure when restoring a function call default value
  
• [Properties] 'Edit' and 'Matrix' buttons in transform matrix parameters are confusing

Substance Designer 2019.2.2 hot-fix release is now available.

Fixed

• [Graph] Node menu filtering is incorrect when using Value outputs
  
• [Graph] Crash when displaying the node menu
  
• [Graph] Search tool appears when using shift shortcut
  
• [Graph] Crash when consecutively spawning node menus from value input connector
  
• [Graph] Comments containing long strings are cropped
  
• [Graph] Flow highlight is incorrect when creating a node using the drag from connector menu
  
• [Graph] Crash when removing all graph items from scene while loading a different graph
  
• [Graph] Crash when using to create node while using click and drag from connector
  
• [Graph] Crash while using the 'Node Finder' tool
  
• [Graph] Output pin color is incorrect in 'Material Compact' mode
  
• [Cooker] Nodes downstream of multi-outputs nodes do not update correctly
  
• [Cooker] Issue with Value outputs and passthrough nodes
  
• [Cooker] Value Processor outputs wrong results when only a 'Get' node is used
  
• [Content] 'Contrast/Luminosity' node outputs an Alpha value of 1.0
  
• [Content] 'Studio Panorama' template has no description
  
• [Content] Flood Fill to index: incorrect result when the input contains a wrapping shape
  
• [Content] 'HDR Merge': internal exposure computation is incorrect
  
• [Dot Node] Crash when using a level and a dot node
  
• [Dependency Manager] 'Go to' action does not work anymore
  
• [PSD] Crash when undoing deletion of multiple nodes which were included in the PSD Exporter
  
• [UI] Crash when closing graph using the 'Window' menu and opening one again while one is pinned
  
• [Gradient Editor] The 'Remove Key' button is too large
  
• [Engine] Precision issue with sqrt() acos() and asin()
  
• [Bakers] AO From Mesh: 'Spread Angle' slider has an incorrect value range when tweaked

New Dot node, Spacebar menu and performance improvements, new advanced shaders and a full set of nodes dedicated to editing HDRI, this release packs new features for everyone!

Read our blog-post[www.substance3d.com] for all the details.

Full release notes:

Added:

• [Content] New ‘Panorama Light’ shapes
  
• [Content] New ‘Panorama Nadir Patch’ filter
  
• [Content] New ‘Panorama Nadir Extract’ filter
  
• [Content] New ‘Panorama Straighten Horizon’ filter
  
• [Content] New ‘Panorama Rotation’ filter
  
• [Content] New ‘Panorama Position’ node
  
• [Content] New ‘Panorama Physical Sun and Sky’ node
  
• [Content] New ‘Panorama Gradients’ nodes
  
• [Content] New ‘HDR Merge’ filter
  
• [Content] New ‘HDR Preview’ filter
  
• [Content] New ‘Color Temperature Adjustment’ filter
  
• [Content] New ‘Blackbody’ node
  
• [Content] New ‘Exposure’ filter
  
• [UI] Node Creation Menu: display and manage Favorites in the menu
  
• [UI] Add/Remove a node from the favorites from the Node Creation Menu
  
• [UI] Node Creation Menu: spawn the menu when clicking/dragging a link from an output
  
• [UI] Node Creation Menu: filter the content according to the current selection type
  
• [3D View] Support Anisotropy
  
• [3D View] Support Coating effect
  
• [3D View] Support Subsurface Scattering
  
• [Graph] Dot node
  
• [Graph] Optimize graph rendering by caching cooking results
  
• [Preferences] Change the ‘Cooking Size Limit’ default value to 8192
  
• [Preferences] Add a toggle to turn the new ‘Tab’ key functionality on/off
  
• [API] Add SDResource.getPackage() method
  
• [Iray] Update to NVIDIA Iray RTX 2019.1.3 SDK (317500.3714)
  
• [Explorer] Allow to link any type of file as a resource in the Package
  
• [GradientNode] Press ESC to cancel the gradient picking
  
• [Parameters] Remove automatic Upper case on identifiers
  
• [Project] Add an option to specify if graphs and resources are ‘Visible in Library’ by default
  
• [Presets] Automatically pin modified parameters

Fixed:

• [MDL] Can't export module due to parameter type issue
  
• [MDL] Exposed int is not visible when loading
  
• [MDL] Crash occurring during MDL export
  
• [MDL] Crash when modifying color of a material surface node
  
• [MDL] void MDLGraphNodeControllerSelector::updateSelectorCurrentMember(const DataMessage& msg) is broken
  
• [Graph] Incorrect link thickness in graph display
  
• [Graph] Too many invalidations are triggered when tweaking parameters
  
• [Graph] Crash when closing a package while two windows of it are open, and using in-context editing
  
• [Function Graph] Warning doesn’t appear when closing function view
  
• [3D View] Crash on 3D View initialization when camera projection is set as ‘orthographic’ as a default scene state
  
• [3D View] Post-FX DOF stays enabled in Iray
  
• [2D view] Brush selection window disappears when changing brush size
  
• [2D View] Information panel: values are cropped with a specific layout
  
• [2D View] The image is offset when minimizing and restoring the main window
  
• [Bakers] ‘From Resource’ selection list is not filtered correctly
  
• [Bakers] Crash when chaining ‘Color Map from Mesh’ and ‘Normal Map from Mesh’ bakers on Embree
  
• [Bakers] Curvature Per Vertex baking results in severe artefacts
  
• [Explorer] Can’t import UDIM resources drag and dropping it in explorer
  
• [Explorer] Explorer window is not filtered correctly when linking meshes and fonts after linking unusual file formats
  
• [Explorer] Resources are visible when graph has ‘show in Library’ set to ‘no’
  
• [Content] ‘Pow’ and ‘clamp’ inputs are not in the correct order
  
• [Content] ‘RGBA Merge’ node inputs are not labelled
  
• [Cooker] Invalid connections of numeric values evaluate anyway
  
• [Cooker] Assert when connecting an image input to an input value
  
• [UI] Mouse cursor gets stuck in the ‘resize’ state in some particular cases
  
• [UI] Right click in package view doesn’t display the correct menu on Linux
  
• [Dependencies] File path of temporary resources is not correct
  
• [Dependencies] Missing bitmap resource warning stays active after relocation
  
• [Library] Some thumbnails are not generated
  
• [Library] MDL files are displayed in the library
  
• [Parameters] Crash when exposing parameters
  
• [Parameters] Crash after recreating a new element in drop down list
  
• [Export] 8K batch export fails
  
• [Presets] Crash when applying a preset involving booleans in SBS instances
  
• [Scripting] ‘Welcome’ screen still appears when using '--quit’ command line argument

Substance Designer is seeing its most significant update in a while this Spring with a brand new version of its core Substance Engine (v7) as well as improved scripting API, some impressive new nodes and an additional performance boost on the bakers side.
Learn all about it![www.substance3d.com]

Added

• [API] Add 'updatePackages' parameter to the SDPackageMGR.loadUserPackage() method to control if the updaters should be applied or not on load
  
• [API] Add the ability to disconnect a SDConnection
  
• [API] Add class SDSBSARExporter to publish a SDPackage
  
• [API] Add SDHistoryUtils class to manage undoable commands
  
• [API] Add grayscale input node definition in Substance Compositing Graph (sbs::compositing::input_grayscale)
  
• [API] Add value input node definition in Substance Compositing Graph (sbs::compositing::input_value)
  
• [API] Add SDProperty.isFunctionOnly() method
  
• [API] Add support of custom input parameter on SDSBSCompNode
  
• [API] Add 'reloadIfModified' parameter to the SDPackageMGR.loadUserPackage() method to control if a package has be reloaded if modified
  
• [API] Add SDPackageMgr.getPackages() method
  
• [API] Add possibility to get/add/remove root paths from SDModuleMgr
  
• [API] Allow getting the pointer of the pixels buffer and the pitch of a SDTexture
  
• [API] Allow to retrieve the pointer of the MainWindow
  
• [API] Allow to create custom menus in the main menu
  
• [API] Allow to create custom DockWidgets in the main window
  
• [API] Use object names to find menus in toolbars
  
• [API] Provide system to manage application notifications to the API
  
• [PythonIntegration] Add default environment variable to look for python plugins
  
• [PythonIntegration] Add text search and replace to the Python editor
  
• [PythonIntegration] Instanciate Python plugins at startup
  
• [PythonIntegration] Take in account PYTHONPATH environment variable
  
• [PythonIntegration] Allow creating toolbars in graph widgets
  
• [PythonIntegration] Support Python threads
  
• [PythonIntegration] Add a Plugin Manager (in the 'Tools' menu)
  
• [Content] Normal Vector Rotation: add an optional image input to drive the angle
  
• [Content] New Min/Max filter
  
• [Content] New "Flood Fill to Index" filter
  
• [Content] New "Flood Fill Mapper" filter
  
• [Content] New Atlas Splitter filter
  
• [Content] Improve Tri Planar filter
  
• [Content] New Non Uniform Directional Warp filter
  
• [Content] New Multi Directional Warp
  
• [Content] New Height Extrude filter
  
• [Engine] Fxmap: new "Gradation with offset" pattern
  
• [Engine] Support For Uniform value processing (New Value Processor node)
  
• [3D View][Bakers] Improve OBJ loader performances
  
• [3D View] Increase the camera clip plane distances
  
• [Preferences] Add settings for Bakers
  
• [Graph] Make invalidation faster by avoiding string comparisons
  
• [MDL] Support MDL Arrays
  
• [UI] Engine selection UI improvements
  
• [IRay] Upgrade to IRay SDK 2018.1.4
  
• [Dependency Manager] Use "last path" when relocating a resource
  
• [Cooking] Add support of Boolean Labels in the sbsar
  
• Integrate Qt 5.12.2

Fixed

• [Graph] Connections are broken when changing the name of the input
  
• [Graph] Too many invalidations are triggered when tweaking parameters
  
• [Graph] "Copy to Clipboard" action don't work if we do the right click on a badge
  
• [Graph] Moving a frame using Alt is not stored in the .sbs
  
• [MDL] Color profile is not automatically updated in MDL editor
  
• [MDL] crash when exporting module that contains a specific setup
  
• [MDL] Fail to export a MDL Graph that contains a LightProfile or a MBSDF resource
  
• [UI] Shortcuts are no longer displayed in context menus
  
• [UI] Floating window becomes dockable after restart
  
• [Scripting] Cancel option doesn't work in python editor
  
• [Scripting] "yes to all" option in save menu doesn't work
  
• [Parameters] drop down list are not displayed correctly after copy
  
• [Explorer] Relocating resources should open the last relocated path by default
  
• [Library] The content of the library is always rebuilt when switching from one version to another
  
• [Library] Imported Bitmaps are invalidated on save
  
• [IRay] Tangent space is not computed correctly / incorrect normal mapping
  
• [Function] Crash or fail when creating new graph from selection
  
• [API] default value of properties is not defined

A new update has been released for Substance Designer:

Changed:

• [Content] Normal Transform/Material Transform: add an option to enable Scale and Skew transformation

Fixed:

• [Content] Swirl filter does not work correctly when random functions are used in parameters functions
  
• [Content] Normal Transform/Material Transform: Normal is not normalized after a scale transformation
  
• [Content] Swirl gives incorrect results when amount is random
  
• [Graph] Crash when shift-dragging an output then switching to ctrl-dragging
  
• [Graph] Crash while manipulating split points
  
• [Graph] Performance drop when displaying node badges
  
• [Scripting] Using custom actions could crash after 30secs
  
• [Preferences/Projects] Enabled scripts from all projects should be executed (in the 'Scripting' section)
  
• [MDL] crash when linking a MDL graph into another MDL graph
  
• [Parameters] Nodes do not update after setting the graph random seed to an exposed parameter
  
• [PSD] Assigning colour node changes layer thumbnail size, assigning a grayscale node does not
  
• [API] Unhandled exception with SDNode.getPropertyValueFromId()