Dear Designer users, 2021 has been a hard year for a lot of us and we can't wait to start fresh in 2022. We're so eager in fact that the 2022 version of Substance 3D Designer is already available! and on sale! and with an added loyalty discount!

This latest feature release is the last one for the 2021 version and also the first one for the 2022 version. But don't worry, even if we're starting 2022 early, you will of course still get updates until the very end of next year with this new version.

Get Substance Designer 2022 on Steam!

Join the team live for a special broadcast featuring surprise announcements, news and previews of what's to come in the Substance 3D world as well as a Q&A session with the team!
If you already have questions, feel free to ask in the comments here and we'll compile a list for the event.

See you on Monday!

A new minor update is available for Substance 3D Designer (11.2.2).

Added:

• [Properties] Add new graph types for Decals, Atlases, Environment lights and Light textures

Fixed:

• [UI] Incorrect interface layout after starting the application
  
• [Stability] Fix crashes when going out of sleep mode on Windows and when plugging/unplugging screens
  
• [3D View] Creating a 3D Scene resource from Substance model graph Scene has no effect
  
• [Blend] Enum values are missing when exposing blending mode
  
• [Export] Scene export of Substance models results in duplicated geometry
  
• [MDL] Crash when opening a specific SBS file
  
• [Mesh] Crash when linking specific mesh with flawed geometry
  
• [Substance models] Export fails when exposed parameter's default value is out of soft range

June 2021 is a big month for the Adobe Substance 3D apps. This latest release of Designer features a brand new geometry graph(!), new raytracing nodes and more!

But first let's address the elephant in the room. There is a new icon, a new branding, a -slightly- updated app name, all this because the Substance tools have finalized their transition into the Adobe ecosystem and are now more connected to Creative Cloud.

So what changes for you, as Substance users on Steam?
Not much more than cosmetics actually. You will keep receiving updates at the same time as the Adobe releases, the Linux version is still going strong, Steam sales are still a thing and there is no plan to change any of that. We hope this alleviates some of the fears expressed when Allegorithmic joined Adobe, a bit more than 2 years ago now.

Now about this release, we have some great stuff for you all:

• A new geometry graph allowing you build procedural models from scratch or by assembling pre-built elements. This allows you build many things from pieces of furniture to kitbashed mechanical assemblies, scatter objects on a surface, create plants or buildings, we can't wait to see what you come up with.
  
• A new default shader with built-in support for advanced material effects such as sheen, clear-coat, anisotropy, advanced subsurface scattering and more.
  
• New raytraced nodes to generate Ambient Occlusion, shadows, bent normals or irradiance for advanced effects.
  
• Updated publishing flow to make it easier to generate SBSAR quickly.

As always, for the full list of new features and improvements, head over to our dedicated article[substance3d.adobe.com].

Finally, we want to emphasize that this is a first step in a new chapter for the Substance tools and the Substance team, and that we're working hard on the next step, with many, many things we're super excited about coming your way in the next year. Thank you all and happy texturing/modeling!

A new bug-fix update is available for Substance Designer 2021

Fixed:

• [Library] Thumbnails do not refresh consistently
  
• [Content] 'Vector morph' graphs' 'Pixel ratio' property is set to 'Stretch (Absolute)'
  
• [Content] Bitmaps used in painting tools appear in Node menu
  
• [Content] NaN output for flat color input in Auto Levels node at floating point precision
  
• [Engine][SSE2] 'Level in mid' value other than 0.5 results in 1.0 output
  
• [Thumbnail] Input maps are downscaled to 256
  
• [UI] Atomic nodes tooltips have incorrect line break

Here is the first hotfix release for Substance Designer 2021.

Fixed:

• [3D View] Render issue when using sbs that have high frequencies in normal map
  
• [3D View] Images are not applied if 'Component' output property is not set to RGBA or RGB
  
• [3D View] Scenes are not loaded correctly in some specific situation
  
• [UI] 'Texture file' input field in Brush Editor scales vertically
  
• [UI] Pin and Dock buttons disappear from tab when active tab is closed
  
• [Bakers] Incorrect result when high poly meshes' global Bbox does not include the scene origin
  
• [Color Management] sRGB Base Color Texture material property is not overridden in custom Scene state
  
• [Console] 'Available GPUs' log message does not list GPUs and appears randomly
  
• [Console] Incorrect string logged when using Batch export
  
• [Content] Atlas splitter's 'Input normal format' parameter impacts Red channel instead of Green
  
• [Cooker] Crash or NaN output when using *.surface bitmaps in SBSAR
  
• [Engine] Gradient map's out of range output values loop around to 0 when Output format has 0-1 range
  
• [Parameters] Min/Max/Default sliders do not auto-adjust in Expose parameter window
  
• [SBSAR] Crash when importing some SBSAR
  
• [SVG] Crash when cancelling resource import

This first release of the year for Substance Designer features support for Pantone colors as well as a new "disable node" feature. nake sure to check out our latest livestream as well, during which we unveiled a project to add Parametric Geometry graphs to Substance Designer!

Added:

• [Spot colors] Support Pantone colors in Designer
  
• [Graph] Disable nodes
  
• [3D View] Export Tessellated Meshes from the Viewport
  
• [Internationalisation] Update Japanese version
  
• [3D View] Optimize memory consumption when not using Iray
  
• [Python API] Add method SDResource.delete() to delete a SDResource
  
• [Python API] Add support for Spot Colors to Python API
  
• [Python API] New callback to trigger when a package is closed
  
• [2D View] Convert brush database from SQLite to Json format
  
• [2D View] Improve rendering performances and reliability (CPU computation)
  
• [Library] Add 'Exclude pattern' option in project settings
  
• [Library] Rename 'Exclude pattern' to Exclude file extensions' in project settings
  
• [UX] Remove '?' button in window title bars on Windows
  
• [UX] Move the Ctrl+E shortcut to 'Open Reference' when in-context editing is disabled
  
• [Bakers] Delete Preview cache when deleting a baker in the bake list
  
• [Performances] Improve image cache budget on hardware with GPU with shared memory
  
• [Preferences] Adapt 'GPU cache limit' value to available memory pool
  
• [Properties] Display Physical Size attribute on node instance
  
• [Scripting] Mark external scripting system as deprecated
  
• [Share] Remove "Export to Substance Share" features

Fixed:

• [Content] Inconsistent I/O order on Material nodes
  
• [Content] Primary input on Warp nodes is inconsistent
  
• [Content] Solve Cooker warnings from Radial Blur node
  
• [Export] Batch export with CPU engine uses VRAM for determining memory budget
  
• [Export] Exporting to a path that does not exist will create the folders
  
• [Export] Memory budget is too low when using Batch export
  
• [2D View] Artifacts / banding when copying HDR images to the clipboard
  
• [2D View] Exporting images from resources always export 8 bits
  
• [3D View] Iray: changing the normal value using the editor gives a strange result
  
• [3D View] Iray: disabling the normal channel does not produce the right result
  
• [Library] Filtering by URL does not work correctly
  
• [Library] Resources matching a Library excluded pattern cannot be imported manually
  
• [Bakers] Renaming a baker does not impact its entry in the 2D View preview list
  
• [Explorer] Loss of synchronization between Explorer and graph data
  
• [Function graph] Crash when setting function node with mismatching output type as output
  
• [MDL] SBS instance nodes have no preview, output 0 and do not trigger graph computation
  
• [Python API] Input parameter's 'editor' property cannot be modified
  
• [Python] Reset layout does not correctly reset Python created docks
  
• [Resources] Cannot link/import 32-bit PSD document

Highlights
Sébastien Deguy, Vice President 3D & Immersive, will kickoff the livestream by reviewing highlights from 2020 (yes, there were some good things in 2020, including beautiful 3D creations!) and exciting news for 2021.

Product Updates
Principal Product Manager Jérémie Noguer will share some new features from the upcoming releases. You’ll get a preview of what the 2021 releases are bringing into Substance Painter, Designer, and Alchemist. You’ll also get updates on the VR tool Medium and the latest additions to the high-quality Substance Source library. Jérémie will unveil upcoming research projects with incredible features, and give you a sneak peek of the future of 3D at Adobe.

Live Demo
Valéria Gerontopoulos, Product Manager and Technical Artist, will take a live dive into the yet unreleased version of Substance Painter to show you some cool features and useful tricks.

Q&A
Livestream host Wes McDermott, Head of Substance Demo Artist Team, will present your questions at the end of the livestream. Don’t miss this excellent opportunity to chat with the team via YouTube chat. See you on January 28th, 10:00 AM PST!