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After the last update for Substance Painter, the update for the Designer from Allegorithmic is already following, free for all owners of Substance Designer 6. Here we present the most important new features of the material-authoring tool.
What’s New in Substance Designer 2017.1
- Revision of the bakers with improved UI, faster loading times for high-poly meshes and an easy correction option for distortions.
- Graph improvements for resizing graph frames, adjustable cache for thumbnails and the ability to copy & paste graph inputs.
- Improved HBAO Ambient Occlusion filter, with multiple quality levels.
- Update of the PBR converter for RenderMan PxrSurface, Corona 1.6, Arnold 4 AISurface and Arnold 5 AiStandard shaders.
You can view further new features in the release notes.
Price and Download
The update is free for all Designer 6 Indie and Pro owners. The price overview and download page for Allegorithmic’s tools can be found here. The software is compatible with Windows 7+, CentOS 6.6 or Ubuntu 12.4 Linux and Mac OS X 10.10+.
Substance Designer in DP
Anyone who has not yet worked with Substance Designer can find a free workshop from us in DP issue 03 : 16. We show you how the tool fits into the texturing pipeline. You can download the workshop here.
