Changelog

16.0.3 / 2026.0.3 (2026-06-02)

• [Content][update] Content updated with Designer 16.0.3

• [Update][Engine] Upgrade Substance engine to v9.4.3

• [Update][ThirdParty] Update to “Adobe Color Engine” (ACE) 7.0

• [Added][pysbs] Support new Substance Graph attribute “materialModel”

16.0.0 / 2026.0.0 (2026-04-28)

• [Content][update] Content updated with Designer 16.0.0

• [Added][templates] Add OpenPBR templates

• [Added][templates] Convert material samples to OpenPBR

• [Added][pysbs] SBSCompInstance stores input node’s “Label”

• [Fix][substance3d_baker] Crashes with some meshes

• [Fix][substance3d_baker] Texture transfer: Crash in bkBufferViewCopy

• [Fix][sbscooker] Infinite loop in While Loop node in a case that could be prevented

• [Deprecation] Remove command line mdltools

• [Deprecation][pysbs] Remove support for MDL Graph

15.1.3 / 2025.1.3 (2026-03-12)

• [Update][Content] Content updated with Designer 15.1.3

• [Update][Engine] Upgrade Substance engine to v9.3.4

• [Dependencies][pysbs] Remove dependency on distutils package (deprecated in Python 3.12+)

• [Added][substance3d_baker] Add a outputsize macros for the filename

• [Added][substance3d_baker] Update the description of the ‘output-size’ option with size macros

• [Added][substance3d_baker][Settings] Set the ‘Name filtering mode’ default value to ‘Parent name (Legacy)’

• [Added][substance3d_baker] Convert input texture format to the requested format

• [Fix][substance3d_baker] Material colors not correct

• [Fix][substance3d_baker][UDIM] Offset map is only applied to UDIM 1001

• [Fix][substance3d_baker] Multiple high poly meshes are ignored in some situations

• [Fix][substance3d_baker] Failure when baking from high poly missing tangent and bitangents that are not required

• [Fix][substance3d_baker] Texture transfer: A grayscale input does not result in a grayscale output

• [Fix][substance3d_baker] Normal: Black output when using anti-aliasing and diffusion (macOS only)

• [Fix][substance3d_baker] Color: Crash when baking UV islands

• [Fix][substance3d_baker] Color baker takes excessively long to finish in specific cases

15.1.1 / 2025.1.1 (2026-01-22)

• [Update] Update the Substance Engine to v9.3.2

• [Content][update] Content updated with Designer 15.1.1

• [Added][pysbs] New usages for OpenPBR 1.2 in sbsenum.UsageEnum

• [Added][substance3d_baker] Add an option to select the method of matching geometry by name

• [Added][substance3d_baker] Update bake sdk to 3.15.4

• [Added][substance3d_baker] Log a warning if Vertex color is missing from high poly mesh

• [Fix][substance3d_baker] Crash when running the same baker consecutively through JSON file

• [Fix][substance3d_baker] Material colors in FBX files are not correctly detected

• [Fix][substance3d_baker] Updating the ‘color-generator’ parameter does not work for ‘Grayscale’

15.0.3 / 2025.0.3 (2025-10-28)

• [Content][update] Content updated with Designer 15.0.3

• [Added][pysbs][graph] Add param exposedOnly to SBSGraph.getInputParameters()

• [Added][substance3d_baker] Add option to control surface cache size

• [Added][substance3d_baker] Rename “use_cache” option to “keep_meshes_in_cache”

• [Fix][substance3d_baker] Can’t override some parameters

• [Fix][substance3d_baker] Artifacts in dilation when using normal bakers with antialiasing

• [Fix][substance3d_baker] Baking process abruptly stopped in CLI while baking a high amount of UDIMs at 4K

• [Fix][substance3d_baker][macOS] Crash when baking Texture transfer with antialising

• [Fix][documentation] Fix html-doc.zip missing in Mac and Linux packages

15.0.1 / 2025.0.1 (2025-07-22)

• [Content][update] Content updated with Designer 15.0.1

• [Feature][pysbs][resource] Add support for USD, STL, PLY and GLTF resource linking sbsenum.ResourceTypeEnum.SCENE

• [Feature][pysbs] Support display of Dot node connections as portals

• [SBSBaker] Rename to substance3d_baker

• [SBSBaker] Create an option to control the backend order

• [SBSBaker] Improve use of StringList argument

• [SBSBaker] Rename “match_source_instance” to “match_mesh_name”

• [SBSBaker] Rename “Submesh” to “GeomSubset”

• [SBSBaker][pysbs] batchtools apis updated with new bakers and option names

• [SBSBaker][BREAKING CHANGE] Json baker parameters file has been updated, it is not compatible with previous versions.

• [SBSBaker] batchtools.substance3d_baker_update() updates old json baker parameters files to the new format.

• [SBSBaker] batchtools.substance3d_baker_run() detects the previous json baker parameters file version and automatically updates it to the new format.

• [Fix][documentation] Fix doc html theme

• [Fix][pysbs] Fix deleteMetaData()

14.1.0 / 2024.1.0 (2025-01-14)

• [Content][update] Content updated with Designer 14.1.0

• [Feature][pysbs][sbsexporter] Add an option to create a subfolder

• [Fix][pysbs][graph] Crash when exposing parameters with specific types of a SBSAR node

• [Fix][pysbs][sbsexporter] graphtype metadata is lost when exporting

• [Fix][pysbs][sbsexporter] crash when exporting a graph with a node with a non-unique identifier

• [Fix][pysbs][sbsexporter] Fix error when calling getExportDependencies

14.0.0 / 2024.0.0 (2024-09-11)

• [Content][update] Content updated with Designer 14.0.0

13.1.2 / 2023.1.2 (2024-05-21)

• [Updater] Updated and Compatible with new sbs format 1.1.0.202401 (need to update sbs files)

• [Content][update] Content updated with Designer 13.1.2

• [Fix][pysbs][sbsarmanager] minor fixes

13.1.1 / 2023.1.1 (2024-02-06)

• [Feature][pysbs][sbsenum] Add support for While node in FonctionEum

• [Feature][pysbs][sbsenum] Add support for Pow button in FonctionEum

• [Feature][pysbs][sbsenum] Add support for side by side button in WidgetEum

• [Feature][pysbs][sbsenum] Add support for RG component in ComponentsEnum

• [Feature][pysbs][sbsarmanager] Add new functions to manage presets, icons and parameter values of SBSAR files

• [Feature][pysbs][sbsargraph] New :meth: hasIcon

• [Fix][pysbs][compnode] Crash when using :meth: applyPreset on a CompInstanceNode with not existing parameters

• [Content][update] Content updated with Designer 13.1.1

13.0.2 / 2023.0.2 (2023-08-08)

[Content][update] Content updated with Designer 13.0.2

13.0.0 / 2023.0.0 (2023-07-20)

• [Updater] Updated and Compatible with new sbs format 1.1.0.202302 (need to update sbs files)

• [Content][update] Content updated with Designer 13.0.0

• [Update] Minimum MacOS version is now MacOS 11

12.4.0 / 2022.4.0 (2023-03-01)

• [MacOS] Support for Apple Silicon

• [Content][update] Content updated with Designer 12.4.0

12.3.0 / 2022.3.0 (2022-12-12)

• [Updater] Updated and Compatible with new sbs format 1.1.0.202204 (need to update sbs files)

• [Updater] MDL/Model graph (mdl module) support not present for this version

• [Content][update] Content updated with Designer 12.3.0

12.1.0 / 2022.1.0 (2022-05-16)

• [Features][sbsmtools] A new command line to export model graph into fbx, obj or sbsm

• [Feature][pysbs] New batchtools.sbsmtools_export wrapper

• [Feature][linux][sbsrender] The Vulkan engine is available on linux platform set –engine vk to use it. Vulkan engine can be used instead of opengl on a gpu server without display.

• [Fix][pysbs] remove deprecated collections.Sequence that causes crashes with python version > 9

• [Content][update] Content updated with Designer 12.1.0

11.3.3 / 2021.3.3 (2022-02-08)

• [Fix][pysbs][graph] SBSGraph.exposeAsInputParam() doesn’t anymore fail anymore when identifier is not unique

• [Content][update] Content updated with Designer 11.3.3

• [Updater] Updated and Compatible with new sbs format 1.1.0.202201 (need to update sbs files)

11.3.0 / 2021.3.0 (2021-12-02)

• [Feature][pysbs][modelgraph] New ModelGraph API

• [Feature][pysbs][graphoutput] New method SBSGraphOutput.getIdentifier()

• [Feature][pysbs][thumbnail] New argument customValues for thumbnail.generate() to pass input values to the thumbnail generation

• [Feature][pysbs][graph] New method SBSGraph.getGraphTypeName() to return the type name

• [Fix][pysbs][graphoutput] Fix SBSGraphOutput.addUsage(), component value doesn’t make the doc.writeDoc() buggy

• [Fix][pysbs][filter] Fix Blend’s alphablending value

• [Content][update] Content updated with Designer 11.3.0

• [Updater] Updated and Compatible with new sbs format 1.1.0.202105 (need to update sbs files)

11.2.2 / 2021.2.2 (2021-09-30)

• [Feature][pysbs][thumbnail] add aThumbnailCompression argument to set bit-depth compression, default to 8

• [Feature][pysbs][graph] add new graph types for Decals, Atlases, Environment lights and Light textures sbsenum.GraphTypeEnum()

• [Content][update] content updated with Designer 11.2.2

11.2.1 / 2021.2.1 (2021-08-02)

• [Doc] add html-doc.zip local doc to the Adobe Admin Console SAT version

• [Fix][sbsbaker] Fix annoying qtWarnings and remove deprecated option –invert-normal

• [Content][update] content updated with Designer 11.2.1

11.2.0 / 2021.2.0 (2021-07-05)

• [Feature][sbsbaker][run] Now sbsbaker run support udim / uvtiles parameter from json or Designer baker preset file

• [Feature][pysbs] New methods SBSParamInput.setIdentifier() and SBSGraph.changeInputParameterIdentifier() to edit an input’s identifier and propagate the new value to system dependent like functions, visibleIf…

• [Feature][pysbs] New attribute graph type is available with SBSGraph.setGraphType(sbsenum.GraphTypeEnum)()

• [Feature][pysbs] New global parameters system to set options before pysbs execution

• [Feature][pysbs] Global parameter pysbs.setRaiseAllErrors(True/False) or env SAT_RAISE_ALL_ERRORS=1/0 avoid to pysbs to catch some exceptions

• [Feature][pysbs] Global parameter pysbs.setSkipDocstringGen(True/False) or env SAT_SKIP_DOCSTRING_GEN=1/0 stop docstring auto generation, can be useful in some specific cases.

• [Fix][pysbs][template] Template name updated

• [Content][update] content updated with Designer 11.2.0

• [Updater] Updated and Compatible with new sbs format 1.1.0.202102 (need to update sbs files)

11.1.2 / 2021.1.2 (2021-03-22)

• [Feature][sbsrender] if it’s possible, gpu engine is now used by default. Use –engine flag to precise another engine file.

• [Feature][pysbs][resource] SBSDocument has a new deleteSBSResource function to delete resource(s) by identifier.

• [Fix][pysbs][sbs/sbsar] Able to pass kwargs to generateThumbnail to set up batchtools.thumbnail.generate inside call SBSDocument.generateThumbnail()

• [Fix][pysbs][thumbnail] Thumbnail size is not locked anymore, aThumbnailSize argument can be used to set the thumbnail resolution. aThumbnailSize=(9, 9) 512x512 by default.

• [Fix][pysbs][thumbnail] Now, thumbnail generation quiet option also quiet sbsrender’s stdout.

• [Fix][pysbs][sbs] Now, doc.writeDoc(aUpdateRelativePaths=True) doesn’t update paths if context’s sbsproject is set to use absolute paths.

• [Fix][Engine][SSE2] ‘Level in mid’ value other than 0.5 results in 1.0 output

• [Content][update] content updated with SD bugfix 11.1.2

11.1.1 / 2021.1.1 (2021-03-02)

• [Feature][pysbs][metadata] PySBS supports metadata for graphs, input nodes and output nodes.

• [Feature][pysbs][metadata] create a metadata common interface for sbs and sbsar objects.

• [Feature][pysbs][batchtools] add quiet option for thumbnail.generate(quiet=True) to disable warning messages.

• [Content][update] content updated with SD bugfix 11.1.1

11.1.0 / 2021.1.0 (2021-02-08)

• [Feature][spotcolorinfo] spotcolorinfo is a new batchtool, useful to convert book color code (pantone…) to various data like spotcolorid, rgb… SAT and Spot colors

• [Feature][pysbs][spotcolor] PySBS fully supports spotcolor, set, get or get info from spotcolor substance parameters Spot colors with PySBS

• [Feature][pysbs][batchtools] new module and function helper to generate thumbnail easily thumbnail.generate() Generate thumbnail with pysbs.batchtools.thumbnail

• [Feature][pysbs][sbs/sbsar] generate and embed thumbnails in sbs and sbsar file sbs.generateThumbnail() sbsar.generateThumbnail() Generating and embedding thumbnail directly from a substance or substance archive

• [Feature][pysbs][sbsarmanager] sbsarmanager allows to edit sbsar, currently add/replace or remove an icon/thumbnail from a sbsar, more functions in the future Edit substance archive with SBSARManager

• [Feature][pysbs][batchtools] sbsbaker_curvature_from_mesh now uses curvature-from-mesh-v2 baker, pass arg legacy=True if you want to keep using the old curvature-from-mesh baker

• [Feature][pysbs][disable node] PySBS can read and write substances that have disable nodes but not able yet to enable or disable nodes

• [Feature][sbsrender] sbsrender render supports input images and outputs selection based on Usages with new flags : –set-entry-usage and –input-graph-output-usage

• [Feature][sbsrender] sbsrender render has a new flag –memory-budget, set the maximum amount of ram when CPU engine is used, default 2000MB

• [Feature][doc] a html Sphinx with RTD theme documentation is now available in the install directory.

• [Warning][pysbs][context] deprecated context.setSubstanceDesignerPath context.getSubstanceDesignerPath Substance Designer is not necessary for the correct functioning of SAT

• [Fix][pysbs][params] now PySBS raise error if the value type mismatch the parameter type

• [Fix][pysbs][connections] PySBS doesn’t raise connection error anymore when multi type function nodes (if..else, set, instance, sequence, passthrough) are set as output

10.2.3 / 2020.2.3 (2020-12-17)

• [Feature][pysbs][preset] Apply an existing preset from an instance node with node.applyPreset(aPresetLabel)

• [Feature][pysbs][preset] Apply a file preset from an instance node with node.applyPresetFromFile(aPresetFilePath, aPresetLabel)

• [Feature][pysbs][values] Ability to pass default value to graph.createInputValueNode(aDefaultValue)

• [Fix][pysbs][inputvalues] CreateInputValueNode created a corrupted node causing the SD to crash

• [Fix][pysbs][inputvalues] Connections between certain input/output values may not be possible

• [Fix][pysbs][input] Color / Grayscale inputs did not have default values

• [Fix][sbsrender] export 8k failed

10.2.2 / 2020.2.2 (2020-11-17)

• [Fix][Linux][xmp] Xmp lib was not loaded correctly

10.2.1 / 2020.2.1 (2020-11-10)

• [Warning][pysbs] Add warning about the end of guarantee compatibility with Python2 from mid 2021

• [Feature][pysbs][graph] Add new graph’s method to create Input Value Node graph.createInputValueNode()

• [Feature][pysbs][graph/sbsargraph] Add some methods to get output Format and Mipmaps from graph or output graph

• [Fix][sbsbaker] ‘–apply-diffusion’ argument returned an error in ‘ambient-occlusion’ baker

• [Fix][sbsrender] ICC profiles of injected bitmaps was not used

10.2.0 / 2020.2.0 (2020-10-20)

• [Feature][sbsbaker][run] batch baking, sbsbaker run, now keeps low and high geometry files in memory, it become the faster way to do several bakes in a single process https://docs.substance3d.com/display/SAT/sbsbaker+Example+Command+Lines

• [Feature][sbsrender/sbscooker/sbsmutator] if the correct extension is present in the output file name, the name of the final output file will not have the double extension

• [Feature][pysbs][batchtools] batchtools.sbsbaker_run can directly use a python dict (json compliant) as argument, batchtools.sbsbaker_run(a_dict)

• [Feature][pysbs][graph] new function to expose node’s input parameter, graph.exposeParamInput(aDoc, aNode, aParamIdentifierToExposed)

• [Feature][pysbs][impactmanager] SBSImpactManager has a new method to get all substance dependencies recursively (and their status) for a given substance file or directory.

• [Feature][pysbs][metadata] sbsar’s metadata are now write and read as XMP format

• [Feature][pysbs][install] pysbs is now a python wheel package (.whl) instead of zip, the pysbs installation doesn’t change pip install Pysbs-2020.2.0-py2.py3-none-win_amd64.whl

• [Fix][pysbs][batchtools] fix deadlock in batchtools OutputHandler when stdout fills up the buffer

• [Updater] Updated and Compatible with new sbs format 1.1.0.202005

• [Content] includes SD-10.2.0 content

10.1.3 / 2020.1.3 (2020-07-09)

• [Content] includes SD-10.1.3 content

• [Feature][pysbs][projectmgr] allow to load several sbsprj files, like SD, values will be override by the most recently load and lists will be extended (aliases, filter paths…).

• [Fix][pysbs][projectmgr] populate aliasMgr from a sbsprj file wihtout aliases cause a crash.

• [Feature][pysbs][inputvalues] add helper function to create inputValue from node, node.createInputValue(“aIdentifier”, sbsenum.InputValueTypeEnum.FLOAT1)

• [Feature][pysbs][inputvalues] add helper function to get inputValue from node, node.getInputValue(“aIdentifier”)

10.1.1 / 2020.1.1 (2020-04-22)

• [Info][version] SAT, like all substance products, has adopted adobe’s version number (10.1.1)

• [Info][version][pysbs] to avoid conflict, pysbs pip package still use “year” version number (2020.1.1)

• [Warning][pysbs][batchtools] As the batchtools module was getting bigger and bigger, it was moved into a pysbs.bactchtools package.

  Some import statements remains valid other no:

  from pysbs import batchtools # valid
  batchtools.sbsrender_render(...) # valid
  from pysbs.batchtools import sbsrender_render # invalid, must become  from pysbs.batchtools.batchtools import sbsrender_render
  sbsrender_render(...) # invalid, without the new import statement form
  

• [Feature][sbscooker] Add ACE support to commandline cooker. See sbscooker flags description https://docs.substance3d.com/sat/command-line-tools/sbscooker/sbscooker-command-line-options

• [Feature][sbsbaker] Add common flag –force-dxr to force DirectX instead of Optix on Pascal(gtx) GPU.

• [Update][sbsrender] sbsrender d3d11pc engine replace d3d10pc on windows (–engine d3d11pc)

• [Fix][sbscooker] Deprecated flags –includes/–preset-path keep the priority if they still used.

• [Fix][sbsrender] 16f RGBA images were exported as grayscale.

• [Feature][pysbs][batchtools] Add argument command_only=True to return only the generated command command_only option

• [Feature][pysbs][batchtools] Add argument output_handler=True to use OutputHandlers, a new way to get data from batchtool’s output. batchtool’s OutputHandlers (an alternative to Popen)

• [Fix][pysbs][projectmgr] populateUrlAliases now convert alias url as absolute

• [Feature][pysbs][graph] new graph’s sbsenum.BaseParamEnum, it’s more appropriate than sbsenum.CompNodeParamEnum

• [Fix][pysbs][metadata] retrieve metadata doesn’t fail anymore when metadata has not both type

• [Fix][pysbs][sbsar] remove use of deprecated function getOutputType

• [Content] includes SD-10.1.1 content

2019.3.0 (2020-01-20)

• [Feature][sbsrender] Support of OpenColorIO in sbsrender. See example for more details https://docs.substance3d.com/display/SAT/sbsrender+Example+Command+Lines.

• [Feature][sbsrender] New flags to override some output option, i.e: set a different bit depth by output.

• [Feature][sbscooker] Built-in sbs packages is now autodetect if resources/packages directory is present next to the sbscooker executable or use sbs:// alias to precise another location.

• [Fix][sbsbaker] New default values to get better results:

  • ambient-occlusion-from-mesh and bent-from-mesh:

    • –ignore-backface-secondary: default to false

    • –max-dist: default to 1.0

• [Feature][sbsbaker] New Curvature baker: curvature-from-mesh-v2 (please note curvature-from-mesh is deprecated and it’s not remove yet for compatibility purpose.)

• [Feature][sbsbaker] Add “Ground Plane” option to simulate a ground occlusion, new flags : –enable-ground-plane and –ground-offset

• [Feature][sbscooker] Support OpenColorIO in sbscooker. See example for more details https://docs.substance3d.com/display/SAT/sbscooker+Example+Command+Lines.

• [Fix][sbscooker] Include psdparse in SAT install dir

• [Fix][pysbs] access to package by pysbs is again possible (ex: pysbs.context)

• [Feature][pysbs][ocio] Setting ocio config with ProjectMgr Project Manager How To ProjectMgr documentation

• [Feature][pysbs][ocio] ocio_helpers.getColorSpaces to get a list of available colorspace

• [Feature][pysbs][resource] Add method to set bitmap resource colorspace and premultiplied alpha. SBSResource.setColorSpace SBSResource.setPreMultipliedAlpha

• [Content] include SD-2019.3.0 content

2019.2.3 (2019-11-30)

• [Feature][pysbs][graph] easy way to get and set User Data for an associated node with SBSGraph.getUserData(aNode) and SBSGraph.setUserData(aNode).

• [Feature][pysbs][autograph] Add some missing widget types in autograph.ag_functions

• [Fix][pysbs][metadata] raise error if metadata is asked when MetadataTree doesn’t exist yet now return None.

• [Content] include SD-2019.2.3 content

2019.2.2 (2019-11-5)

• [Deprecated][pysbs][context] deprecate SDAPI_SATPATH instead use SAT_INSTALL_PATH

• [Feature][pysbs][graph] create method graph.getAllNodes()

• [Fix][pysbs][graph] moveConnectionsOnPinOuput allowed with node filter

• [Fix][sbscooker] Value Processor outputs wrong results when only a ‘Get’ node is used

• [Fix][sbscooker] Issue with Value outputs and passthrough nodes

• [Content] include SD-2019.2.2 content

2019.2.1 (2019-09-18)

• [Feature][pysbs][sbsformat] Update sbs format, added dot node (passthrough node).

• [Feature][pysbs][package] Support Package Metadata. Package’s metadata documentation.

• [Feature][pysbs][package] Retrieve package metadata from sbsar’s json. Metadata from a sbsar documentation.

• [Feature][pysbs][resources] add resource type OTHER. Resource of type OTHER documentation.

• [Feature][batchtools][sbsbaker][run] allow to pass json SD preset to sbsbaker run command. https://docs.substance3d.com/display/SAT/sbsbaker+Example+Command+Lines.

• [Feature][batchtools][sbsbaker][run] add flag –disable-gpu –force-optix to sbsbaker run command.

• [Feature][batchtool][sbsrender] Add a command line argument for temp files location –cache-dir.

• [Feature][pysbs][preset] Preserve the “user tag” when export sbsprs.

• [Feature][pysbs][resources] sbsdoc.createLinkedResource support isUdim parameter.

• [Feature][pysbs][graph] Add a deleteGraph() function for SBSDocument.

• [Feature][pysbs][batchtools] add a function for sbsrender rendering images sequences batchtools.sbsrender_animate(…). render animation sequence example.

• [Fix][pysbs] now setParameters COLOR_MODE switch the output type.

2019.1.2 (2019-07-20)

• [Fix][pysbs][batchtools][sbsbaker]: Allows using native python values such as True or 1 for parameters rather than strings such ‘true’ and ‘1’.

• [Fix][pysbs]: Connecting a non-variant input changes output type of variant node.

• [Fix][sbsmutator]: Sbsmutator instantiate now copies ColorSpace and Output attributes such as VisibleIf.

• [Feature][sbsrender]: Add flags –gpu and –gpu-list to use a specific gpu (Windows only).

• [Feature][pysbs]: Added ProjectMgr class in order manage information in sbsprj files. Project Manager How To ProjectMgr documentation

• [Feature][pysbs]: Dependency path storage method is driven by the ProjectMgr. Project Manager How To ProjectMgr documentation

2019.1.1 (2019-05-17)

• [Fix]: Reverted behavior for linking resources to interpret relative paths as relative to cwd. There is an argument for linking relative to the package

• [Fix]: Fixed optix baking issue

2019.1.0 (2019-05-09)

• [Feature]: Baking: Optix GPU raytracing support

• [Fix]: Baking: Obj reading speed increase

• [Feature]: Support for 2019.1 file format

• [Feature]: pysbs: Added support for reading out button labels

• [Feature]: pysbs: Added support for automatically picking the first graph when referencing an sbs

• [Feature]: pysbs: Added module version information to the python package

• [Feature]: pysbs: Changed path behavior to be consistent with 2019.1 (anything not in an alias or below the document is now absolute)

• [Feature]: pysbs: Added support for reading, writing sbsprs documents and import presets from and to sbs documents

• [Feature]: pysbs: More accurate exception handing for dependency errors

• [Feature]: linux: Batchtools are now built against glibc 2.17

2018.3.0 (2018-11-29)

• [Feature]: Added support for color space in sbs and sbsar

2018.2.0 (2018-08-03)

• [Feature]: Support for 2018.2 sbs format

• [Fix]: Cleaned up log handling

• [Fix]: Deprecated inconsistently named functions

• [Fix]: Added more helpful error message when loading sbs file of incompatible version

2018.1.0 (2018-04-12)

• [Feature]: Support for 2018.1 sbs format

• [Feature]: Added support for setting up UDIM’s in sbs files

• [Feature]: Added autograph library for creating pixel processors/dynamic functions more conveniently (previously available as the sbsmath library among the samples)

• [Feature]: Added support for automatically laying out graphs

• [Feature]: Added API support for getting all inputs of a graph

• [Feature]: Added support for deleting ui elements such as frames, comments and navigation pins

• [Feature]: Added support for reframing a frame around nodes that has moved

• [Fix]: Added support for loading sbsar files using new compression settings

• [Fix]: Find the good dependency when its uid is not provided in the CompInstance path

• [Fix]: Added support for controlling the Alpha Channel of the normal node

2017.2.3 (2018-02-06)

• [Feature] Added support for bitmap resize method parameter.

• [Fix] Fixed an issue with Change SBSGraph.getNodesConnectedFrom that didn’t selected some valid nodes.

• [Fix] Corrected spelling error TGA file enum format name causing issues setting TGA as format in baking parameter.

• [Fix] Fixed bad ‘RelativeTo’ value for dynamic function on non-base parameters.

2017.2.2 (2017-10-25)

• [Feature] Handle MDL graphs: allow creating and editing MDL graphs, setting parameters and generate MDL related resources.

• [Feature] MDL Documentation and sample script.

• [Feature] Allow creating a MDL Graph from a template.

• [Feature] Added wrapper for FreeImage and functionality for loading image information when creating nodes.

• [Fix] Ensure deleting a temporary folder in case of error during the process.

• [Fix] Fix sbscleaner so that it does not remove any Input nodes, even if they are not connected to an Output.

• [Fix] Optimized detection of cycles for large networks when adding nodes by changing lists to sets/maps.

• [Support SD2017.2] Added support for float 2 position, offset widget and forward transform matrix.

• [Support SD2017.2] Added support for new base parameter ‘Pixel ratio’.

• [Support SD2017.2] Update sbs format for updaters up to 201710: changes & cleanup & simplification & typos correction. No more SBSValueOrOverload, SBSVariables, SBSCompExternalLink, SBSCompExternal

• [Support SD2017.2] Declare new Substance & MDL graph templates.

2017.2.1 (2017-09-11)

• Added pysbs/batchtools.py to call directly the Batchtools from Pysbs.

• Handle default Graph templates with an enumeration.

• Proper logging system.

• Remove dependency on cffi package, use ctypes instead.

• Use psdparse from SD install folder instead of SAT, as we don’t have the right to distribute psdparse in SAT for now.

• Allow creating a resource at the root of the package.

• Fix input/output type issues for a number of nodes in sbsfunctions Added log2 function.

• Fix comparing resources: accept lower/upper case for the resource Format.

• Fix encoding issues and ensure appropriate encoding for all calls to an external process (subprocess, dll loading).

• Fix Python 2.7 64bit, where struct.pack/unpack are expecting a string instead of a unicode.

• Fix faulty command line example for demoBuildSBSFromPainterBitmaps.

• Fix content list is None instead of [] when necessary.

2017.2.0 (2017-08-02)

• Improve node connections: add helpers to get info on connections, allow moving connections to another pin.

• Handle graph/function creation from a template file.

• Sbscleaner: add the possibility to clean unused dependencies.

• Handle the GUI comments associated to a Node.

• Allow moving a graph/group/function/resource under another group.

• Allow setting the identifier of a graph/group/function/resource.

• Allow relocating resource - Check resource extension.

• Add a helper function to split a path containing a dependency uid into two parts.

• Change signature containing ‘RelPath’ or ‘PkgPath’ to ‘InternalPath’

• Fix computing GUI rectangle of nodes with more than 3 inputs/outputs.

2017.1.1 (2017-07-18)

• Rename Substance Pipeline Tools into Substance Automation Toolkit.

• Fix deleting input/output node of a Substance graph: delete also the corresponding input parameter/graph output.

• Fix input/output named with a value known by the sbsdictionary.

• Fix setting the default value but with non-default inheritance.

• Handle dynamic multiple inputs on Pixel processor and FxMap nodes.

2017.1.0 (2017-06-30)

• Rework and document getDefinition() function, add getIdentifier() function on all LibObjects.

• Handle input parameter of kind String + String function nodes.

• Split sbslibrary into sbslibrary and sbsdictionaries.

• Split sbsbakerslibrary into sbsbakerslibrary and sbsbakersdictionaries.

• SD2017.1: Update documentation: document new features + cleanup & rewording.

• SD2017.1: Handle changes in the baking parameters.

• SD2017.1: Add support for embedded presets within .sbs files. Common interface for .sbs and .sbsar

• SD2017.1: Do not pre-escape < and > characters for text area GUI fields anymore + Homogenize attributes.

1.0.3 (2017-05-22)

• Remove dependency on Substance Designer. Use Substance Pipeline Tools instead.

• Rename pydesigner in pysbs.

• Allow to declare the moving of a sbs in all the sbs in a given tree.

• Rework SBSNode getters / setters.

• Declare sbsupdater batch tools.

• Display a clear exception when requesting info on an unparsed / uninitialized package.

• Unicode support - Remove unnecessary conversion to ‘str’ causing trouble in Python2.7.

• Fix issue in exception when giving invalid parameter to a SBSCompInstance.

• Fix format version issue (was string comparison).

1.0.2 (2017-05-17)

• Publish documentation to Confluence.

• Handle GUIObjects: Comments/Frame/NavigationPin.

1.0.1 (2017-03-30)

• Sd6 support: Handle Font resource creation.

• Reduce bitmap size & update doc.

• Handle Version Format 6.0.2.

• Updater script using SBSMutator.

1.0.0 (2017-03-30)

• Support SD6 new attributes and filters.

0.1.7 (2017-03-22)

• Add attribute helpers for .sbsar.

• Handle graph Icon.

• Add helpers for graph attributes.

• Add sbscleaner for cleaning graph/function/substance facilities.

• Handle creation of imported SVG resources.

• Add helpers + code & doc cleanup.

• Rewrite sbsenum with range().

0.1.6 (2017-03-14)

• Handle .psd format for resource creation. Uses psdparse.exe provided by SD.

• Create SD dummy app for test, with psdparse executable and SD resource packages.

• Move demos/sample/test into pydesigner_demos.

0.1.5 (2017-03-01)

• Handle SBSAR format - Create common interfaces for SBS and SBSAR.

• Check format version.

0.1.4 (2017-03-01)

• Allow exporting a Substance with its dependencies.

• Allow write a SBSDocument at a different location.

0.1.3 (2017-03-01)

• Fix dependency issue.

• Add helpers on input parameters and widget.

• Compatibility with Python 3.5.

0.1.2 (2017-03-01)

• Add BakingParameters API - Bakers library & properties.

• Create Imported Resource.

• Add Doc Source to Git Repo.

• Check cycles before connection.

0.1.1 (2017-03-01)

• Setup file + Package for Source distribution ok.