Substance Designer's Winter 2019 release is now available!
This is the first major release for the 2020 cycle and the last one for owners of the 2019 version.

• Color Management, with OpenColorIO support. Ensure consistency between your materials and renders between Substance Designer and your renderer of choice with the popular ACES color profile.
• A new Curvature from Mesh baker provides much more accurate bakes with smoother results and better handling of intersecting geometry among other improvements.
• The Ambient Occlusion baker is also getting some love with a new Ground Plane option to simulate the occlusion generated by the ground under an asset.
• The new Atlas Tool is the perfect companion if you are working with scanned atlases, no matter their origin. This new node will automatically split all the elements of the atlas and allow you to easily scatter them on a material, with tons of control.
• Presets and Preview Mode have been improved as well, with better performance and a revamped interface.

For a deep dive into these features and more, head over to the related article on the Substance Magazine.

Full changelist:

Added:

• [General] Support Color Management using OpenColorIO configuration file
• [Presets] Improve presets management
• [Presets] Synchronize 2D View Gizmos and Preview Sliders
• [Presets] Restore preview values when switching back to Preview mode
• [Presets] Keep preview mode active when editing other nodes, resources or graph
• [Presets] Undo works smoothly when navigating between the 3 presets tabs
• [Presets] Allow to Reset parameters to Graph's default or Preset's value in Preview mode
• [Presets] Improve pinning of parameters
• [Presets] Import/Export all Presets of a graph to a file
• [Bakers] New 'Curvature from mesh' baker based on ray tracing
• [Bakers] Add ground plane option in 'AO from Mesh' baker
• [Bakers] Add match by name option to ignore backface in 'AO from Mesh' baker
• [Content] New Atlas Scatter node
• [Content] New Color Space Conversion nodes and functions (ACEScg)
• [Content] Improve naming consistency for nodes with Color/Grayscale versions
• [Graph] Improve performances in Presets Preview mode
• [Graph] Add $(colorspace) macro to export graph outputs option
• [Parameters] When a parameter is set to invisible, hide the corresponding gizmo in the 2D View
• [Parameters] Do not add 'Graph input group' as a prefix when exposing parameters
• [Parameters] Add tooltip for VisibleIf in Graph parameters
• [AXF] Update AXF SDK to v1.6

Fixed:

• [Linux] Designer does not launch on CentOS 8 due to Qt platform loading failure.
• [Linux] WARNING: Freetype library has been removed from SD application: Users with CentOS version <= 7.5 has to install it manually.
• [AxF] Crash when importing files created with newer AxF versions
• [2DView] Brush textures fed by a resource are not applied
• [2DView] Crash when modifying inputs of instanced graph with position tweak
• [3DView] Crash when canceling the "Load…" action
• [3DView] Add Color Space option for emission textures in GLSLFX Shaders
• [Bakers] Maps fed through resources are ignored during baking
• [Bakers] 'World Space Direction' options are incorrectly locked
• [Bitmap] EXR bitmaps with floating point values are rendered as a black image
• [Content] Flood Fill to index: shape detection fails in a particular case
• [Content] Crop: sampling issue when the crop node has a lower resolution than the input
• [General] Crash when closing Designer while generating the Library
• [Graph] Bitmap nodes do not reflect the compression of the associated bitmap
• [Graph] Cache is not cleared when clearing node thumbnails after first render
• [Graph] Node size incorrectly invalidated
• [Graph] Crash when im some cases when changing input connections on a Pixel Processor Node
• [MDL Graph] Failure when restoring a function call default value
• [Properties] 'Edit' and 'Matrix' buttons in transform matrix parameters are confusing