This update improves the animation and turntable authoring workflow and adds a new GPU denoiser as well as video and GIF export options.
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Adobe has released Substance 3D Stager 2.1, the latest version of its staging and rendering tool. It adds a new, faster GPU denoiser meant to "speed up your design process" and let you "experience rapid iterations and production-ready results within seconds."
The new version also adds MP4 and GIF export for animations, updates animation export time range options to allow rendering a range of frames, and removes frame 0 editing restriction, allowing scene editing while the animation is playing.
Other changes include:
- Improve timeline time display with editable time and fps display options
- Update raytracing engine for bugfixes and performance enhancements
- Improve USD export/import parity
- Allow adding models/scenes as USDz to CC Libraries panel while objects are selected
- Update to Substance Engine 9
- Enable reading physical size data from .sbsar materials
- Allow importing .sbsar atlases (not fully supported, but now importable)
- Show bundled .sbsar presets as items in the assets panel
- Show large thumbnail previews when hovering over assets in the assets panel
- Update to CC Libraries panel 3.23.28
- Add the group select button to the viewport header when a select tool is active
- Prevent the app from sleeping while rendering in render mode
- Show new busy states making it clearer that the app Is busy with tasks like displacement, shader compilation, physics collision solving
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