Bugs Fixed

• Multi page property control failed to update child controls when changed.
• Error running lua scripts using maps that add the property page control.

Features Added

• Two new options to set Main Window and External Material Visualizer UI Scaling. These options are found in Options / Settings -> Environment
• New resource system implemented to support UI Scaling graphics at various sizes.

Bugs Fixed

• Bug stopped interaction with the Material Visualizer when in an external window and on a different monitor than the main window.

Features Added

• Option to select a different location for the user Documents directory. Remove to return to default. Found in the Environment page of Options and Settings.

Bugs Fixed

• Crash when unable to find user Documents folder. This can happen when the Documents folder has been moved or deleted. A prompt to select a new Documents folder will be shown at start.

Features Added

• Added alpha sliders to all materials.
• Added new Maps \ Project Option for scaling normal components to the range 0 - 1 when saving floating point image file formats.
• Updated splash screen graphics

Bugs Fixed

• Crash when adding Pre-Filter to Node with no Map Type parents. Disabled Pre-Filter button for such map nodes.
• Bug in "Save Map to File" dialog. Map File Format was reset to default when new map save location set.

Bugs Fixed

• Language Select causing crash, disabled until further development.
• Normal Editor crash when saving in Editor mode.
• Model Setup showing the Right Click rotate model grid when in a Orthoginal view.
• Project_XX folders not deleted from the AppData cache on clear cache.

Version 4.3.2 / 3 - Revision 3 (R3)

4.3.3 was released to fix a bug introduced in 4.3.2 when batch processing.

Features

• New default font - this is compatible with UHD scaling (still being implemented). Additional fonts will be added after UHD scaling is complete.
• Added Mask Height / Level property (This sets the grayscale color of the where map pixels are masked) to the following maps:
  • Diffuse to Displacement
  • Diffuse to Metalness
  • Diffuse to Roughness
  • Diffuse to Gloss
  • Diffuse to Specular
  • Diffuse to Specular Color

Bugs Fixed

• Incorrect mask rendering on several map types.

Version 4.3.1 - Revision 3 (R3)

Features

• New logo and various theme changes.
• License support for Basic, Pro Student, Pro Personal and Pro Commercial.
• Added map names to the channel mixer via tooltip button.
• Clickable news thumbnail and online news link.
• Updated FBX to version 2019.5.

Bugs Fixed

• Crash when embedding a child map into a parent map.
• Map mouse over tooltip not always showing. Caused by tooltip not set in LUA script add_map_node().
• RMAD had the same export name as RMA.
• Maps not connected to batch source node but have embedded maps connected to a batch source node were not being exported on batch. (RMA, RMAD).
• Batch filename on multiple versions of same map were being corrupted.

Features

• New option allowing a default external editor to be set. This can be overridden by a map specific external editor assignment.

Bugs Fixed

• Crash on some systems due to a graphics error at startup.

Bugs Fixed

• Crash when saving or resetting a node's properties in the PRO version. All node properties have been reset to default in this version.

Take for example the normal map below, generated by the Light Scan node. The surface was intended to be flat and represent the surface of a fabric. You can see the Normal Radar map displaying the bottom right "lean" of the normals. And the image below showing the normals lit from above in the Material Visualizer. Notice the uneven lighting.

Next you can see the gradient displayed using the Normal Gradient filter.

The gradient is then subtracted from normal map using the filter and the resulting normal map is show below with Normal Radar and lit with the same settings in the Material Visualizer.

Features

• Filter Stack now only displays filters compatible with map type.
• New Filter: Normal Gradient - Isolates a gradient from an existing normal map which can be subtracted or added to the base normals. Great for uneven light scan normal maps.
• Enabled multiple instances of SM4.2. Modified the caching system to be named according to the process ID ensuring no instance conflicts.

Bugs Fixed

• Crash when loading an EXR normal map -1 to +1 into a color source or disp source map.
• When batching images, _0 is added to maps even if there aren't multiples. Removed _0 and only add when multiple of that name.
• Certain situations caused a normal map to be used as an input which returned non rasterized values.
• User Defined Env Maps not loaded from project file.
• Crash on load default project from start with <= 16px source image.

PRO Features

• Template Albedo Metal Rough to Diffuse Spec Gloss.
• New Template Diffuse Spec Gloss to Albedo Metal Rough.

Bugs Fixed

• Light Scan MODE (Start) not marked as PRO.
• Template Input filters not being loaded.
• Template Pre / Post filters not being loaded.
• Template Alpha State not being loaded.
• Docs PAGE_TITLE in new pages.

Version 4.2.1 - Revision 2 (R2)

Features

• Added Map Input Filter with R Y G C B M, level, hue, and saturation adjustments. This replaces Input Channel selection on most maps.
• Added Alpha State droplist added to all map nodes. Allows the user to use alpha channel with Standard, Suppress alpha, and remove alpha from a map alltogether.
• New Map: Diffuse to Displacement V4 - Added support for Input Filter and removed old controls for channel selection and alpha state.
• New Map: Displacement to AO V3 - Added support for Input Filter and removed old controls for channel selection and alpha state.
• New Map: Displacement to DUDV V2 - Added Scale control and support for Input Filter. Removed old controls for channel selection and alpha state.
• New Map: Displacement to Normals V3 - Added support for Input Filter and removed old controls for channel selection and alpha state.
• New Map: Diffuse to Specular - Creates grayscale specular from diffuse map. Replaces Displacement to Specular on default Start projects.
• New Material: Standard - Added additional controls and allow for color specualar.
• New Material: Displacement - Added additional controls and allow for color specualar.
• New Material: Parallax - Added additional controls and allow for color specualar.
• Increased AO Scale Slider range on all materials.

PRO Features

• New Map: Diffuse to Gloss - Creates a grayscale gloss map from diffuse map. Includes detail generation and blending. Supports new input filter control.
• New Map: Diffuse to Metalness V2 - Added support for Input Filter and removed old controls for channel selection and alpha state. Improved detail generation and blending.
• New Map: Diffuse to Roughness V2 - Added support for Input Filter and removed old controls for channel selection and alpha state. Improved detail generation and blending.
• New Map: Diffuse to Specular Color - Creates a color specular from diffuse map. Includes detail and color blending. Supports new input filter control.
• New Map: Albedo, Metal to Diffuse - Creates a standard diffuse map from PBR albedo and metalness maps.
• New Map: Albedo, Metal to Specular - Creates a standard color specular map from PBR albedo and metalness maps.
• New Map: Diffuse, Metal, Specular to Albedo - Creates a PBR albedo map from diffuse, PBR metalness and color specular maps.
• New Templates in the Template Lib to easily use the (Albedo, Metal to Diffuse) and (Diffuse, Metal, Specular to Albedo) conversion maps.
• New Material: PBR Specular - Takes a color specular and gloss map to render a PBR material.
• New Start Mode: PBR Specular - Creates a default project for generating color specular and gloss maps.

Changes to LUA API

• Added map alpha state function to setup a map node's alpha state.
• Added input filter state function to setup input filter values per map input.
• Updated map definitions in sm4.lua to include new map nodes.

Misc. Changes

• Updated the AppData and Documents folder names to SM4_2 to match version 4.2. This will require your user templates to be copied from the SM4 or SM4_1 folders.
• Updated Map / Filter / Geo Plugins SDK to 4.2.
• Update Material SDK to 4.2.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed Missing Non Commercial PRO star glyph - replaced with "PRO •".
• Pre 4.1 support news items were not displaying.
• Optimized alpha pixel expansion. Was running slow in OTPX image library.

Welcome to the new Forums for Rendering Systems. Here you can continue to get support for ShaderMap and future products released by Rendering Systems. All accounts have been transferred from the ShaderMap forums. Log in and take a look around. Most user images were transferred over, but there were some issues on a few accounts. Let me know what you think.

We've moved to a new and more powerful server. Please excuse our dust. If you see anything acting strange on the site, please let me know below.

We are happy to announce two new payment methods. First we have left PayPal for credit card processing and are now using Stripe. The integration is much better and doesn't require customers to leave the site to make a payment. We have also added crypto currencies to the checkout and accept those through the Coinbase Commerce system.

Thanks for being patient with us through the upgrade.

Best,
Neil

• Cage Projection baking method added to the Color ID from 3D Model node.

• New Option in Maps / Projects page - Import material colors. If enabled triangles are colored based on file diffuse colors.

• Failed to load projects with auto cage geometry.

• Generalized Node Caching system.
• New option to set max cache size in Megabytes (MB).
• Cache Map Nodes for Post Filter Passes. Greatly speeds up post filter rendering.

• New Options Page - Default Projects. Enable / disable default maps. Toggle auto render and auto filename generation.

• Batched Source Images didn't have filters applied.
• Memory leak on delete Filter.
• Crash when Adding MASK to Albedo (DIFF), Blend Maps, Blend Normals, and Albedo from Photos.
• Crash on New Project after Project with Filters.
• Crash is certain situation on Normal Map Render Fail.

• Added Smoothing Properties into AO from Displacement Map. Those using LUA scripts should update the indices for map_disp_to_ao2. Export the map to script to see the changes.
• Ability to reset node properties to default values. Use the property config button found to the right of the node properties.
• Updated the default project layouts to include the new maps, norm to cavity and norm to curve.
• Various UI improvements.

• New Map: Normal to Cavity. Convert tangent space normals to cavity maps.
• New Map: Normal to Curve. Convert tangent space normals to curve maps. Includes a number of options to export curves to various channels.
• Ability to save node property values as default. Seperate option to save property page as default page.
• Ability to reset node properties to saved property values. Use the property config button found to the right of the node properties.

• Crash on Loading 10K + maps.
• Channel Select in Maps generated from Displacement was out of order.
• Memory Leak on Project Load - Some material_ids auto generated were left hanging.
• Distance returned from ray casting at models was sometimes negative, throwing off baking results. All better now.

• Import of Material IDs from 3D Models
• Auto Cage Generation
• Batch/Project Scripting with LUA

• A new Auto Cage system 
• Importing of Material IDs from 3D Models
• Scripting with LUA

• Improved import options for 3D Models by adding the ability to import Material IDs and automatically assign them colors. This will speed up the work flow for rendering maps from 3D models. And greatly simplify rendering Color ID maps.
• Orthogonal Projections for Maps baking from 3D Models.