Painter 8.2.0 is now live!
Occasionally we like to focus on the little things that bug us too. Whether you call these things “wish-list items,” “quality of life improvements,” or dare we say ... “minor annoyances,” we’ve been working on a release that has some focus on just those kinds of things.
Below is what you’ll find in Painter 8.2.0. We hope you find something here that just might improve your day-to-day with Substance 3D Painter with the love release.
Release date: October 6th, 2022
Top love release features
New copy layers blending modes and opacity
Several shortcuts and actions have been added to make it quick and easy to copy and apply blending modes and the opacity across multiple channels in the Layer Stack:
- Right-click on a blending mode or opacity control
- Right-click on a layer and choose Blending options
New blending mode and opacity on filter and color selection effects
Filter and color selection effects now have the possibility to use blending modes and opacity controls.
- Blending modes on filters allow to compute effects and combine their results directly on layers, avoiding the need to use anchor points and fill effects to achieve the same result.
- The color selection effect has been modified to support blending modes and opacity controls as well.
New effects on folders
Folder content (the color part of a layer) can now receive effects of any kind. Before it was necessary to create complex layer configurations (like passthrough layers or anchor points) to achieve the same result.
New Substance archive (SBSAR) export
It is now possible to specify the SBSAR file format from the list of file formats in the Export Textures window. This will export a single SBSAR file containing all specified textures. Export presets can now specify output maps as PSD or SBSAR in addition to all other image formats.
New environment option to light up underneath 3D models
A new setting named Environment Alignment inside Display Settings allows to align the environment map to the camera making it possible to adjust the lighting angle and light up parts below the 3D model.
New Favorites and delete/reload in Assets window
New actions have been added to the Assets window to make management of resources more convenient.
- Right-click on any resource in the Assets window to favorite (or un-favorite) it. Favorite resources always appear first in line in search queries with a little star tag in the corner.
- Resources located in user libraries can now be deleted, reloaded or renamed.
Miscellaneous features and improvements
A lot of small additional improvements and features have been added to this new version:
- New Welcome and What's new window
- New keyboard shortcut (CTRL+SHIFT+R) to quickly re-import a 3D model
- Improved HDPI support with intermediate scaling values
- Reset Substance graph parameters to default
- View individual RGBA components in viewports
- Tiling fill layers and effects beyond 128
- New 16f and 32f EXR texture export setting
- Export and reload UI layouts
- Re-organized save actions in file menu
- Improved error message when opening projects that are too recent
To see all these new features in detail, check out the release notes:
https://substance3d.adobe.com/documentation/spdoc/version-8-2-238060923.html
https://substance3d.adobe.com/documentation/spdoc/all-changes-188973073.html
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