Allegorithmic Substance Designer is a utility designed for texture creation. It allows you to simulate parametric substances, an asset suited for 3D graphics. The interface offers quick access to all the main functions of the application, through various toolbars and panels conveniently located on the welcome screen.
The application offers a package section, where a collection of standard materials, resources, and basic templates are available. Afterward, you may use these elements as fundamental building blocks for new projects. Nevertheless, the program is not restrictive in this sense. It further enables you to create and add new substances to this database, whenever you require one and you also wish to use it later on. You are able to do so by manipulating and changing colors, shapes, lights, and shades, by means of the corresponding panels.
The operations that you are able to perform using the toolbars and panels are very complex - you may design substances for graphics from scratch, by using the materials and textures provided by default in packages, or by importing new ones from other sources. The 2D- and 3D-view modes allow you to visualize your work as it progresses, while at the same time, they allow you to project the workspace where you create new substances. The final output of your work can take shape through composite substances, as well as by combining different elements and resources, such as image layers and primitive substances selected from the available package.
To conclude with, Allegorithmic Substance Designer comes across as an exquisite instrument for text designers and artists, who wish to transform image sources into composite substances for 3D graphics.
v4.5 [Dec 2, 2014]
Features
- [Library] Added Tile Random, Tile Sampler, Scratches generators / Curvature Smooth, Mask Builder filters
- [3D View] Store default shader in the project files
- [3D View] Make the "Default" Material's shader reset to the default shader when clicking on the "Reset All" action
- [3D View] Add emissive feature to PBR shaders
- [3D View] Add tiling to PBR shaders
- [Bakers] Allow to disable the diffusion around the bakes and replace it with a neutral color
- [Bakers] Add bias (Min Occluder Distance) for secondary rays (AO and Bent Normals)
- [Bakers] Add "Ignore backface triangles" options
- [Explorer] Add warning when a data contains links with unknown Aliases
- [Preferences] Add button to rebuild the database of the Library
- [Preferences] Remove uncleaned paths from user_project
- [Preferences] Add Japanese language
- Added a feedback link in the help menu
- Added "News" component
Bug Fixes
- [Bakers] Crash when launching a bake that generate a psd resource for the second time
- [Bakers] No default output settings at first launch
- [Bakers] Fail to save baking image to PSD
- [Bakers] AO from Mesh - Strange results on Mac
- [Bakers] Disable max depth when using a cage
- [Bakers] Black result with some specific meshes
- [Bakers] FBX meshes from Blender / large scale produce black textures
- [3D View] Render artifacts with PBR shaders
- [3D View] Enable/Disable channel does not work
- [3D View] New material is not set to default shader
- [3D View] Reflection artifacts with blinn/relief/tesselation shaders
- [2D View] Sliders for the Extrude Tool in the SVG editor don't work
- [Graph] "No Usage" Auto Connect
- [Graph] Invalid function message is shown for no reason
- [Library] SBSAR don't appear in Library if containing multiple tags
- [Library] Scratched metal resources are displayed with a red cross
- [Library] Newly created folder are impossible to rename
- [Preferences] Disabling "Post Process" does not work and is always reset to true
- [Preferences] Defining the tangent space plugin under the project path generates wrong path
- [Preferences] MikkTspace Plugin selection broken
- [Explorer] No warning displayed when embedded bitmaps are not found
- [Explorer] Cannot relocate invalid mesh resource (and possible crash when rebaking)
- [Wizard] New substance resolution only up to 2K
- [Console] Remove unnecessary messages
- Bad Alias URL
- DDS exported from Designer are read with red blue channel swapped
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