Release notes | Substance 3D Viewer

Adobe Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) Version 0.21.0
(Released Jan 16, 2025)

Added:

• Performance improvements for interactive rendering with ray tracing

• Navigation information selection type for mouse and trackpad shortcuts is now persistent across sessions

Fixed

• Crash when using raytracing with generated 3D models

• Crash when resizing the application or canvas

• Crash when opening files

• Crash when opening document from Photoshop greater than 5400 pixels

• Crash when adjusting field of view

• Unable to install Substance 3D Viewer on a device with AMD graphics card

• Reloading a document shows incorrect error there is no geometry

• Small canvas size causes 3D view to render at low resolution

• Undo of up-axis change not updated in axis indicator UI

• Original materials do not reapply with undo

• Send to Photoshop button disabled when sending generated image

• Photoshop and Viewer apps now focus when using Edit Contents or To Photoshop actions

• Unable to access material settings on sub-meshes

Substance 3D Viewer for Photoshop (beta) Plugin Version 0.21.0
(Released Jan 16, 2025)

Added:

• Plugin build information added to the plugin About screen for easier bug reporting.

Fixed:

• Unintentional launch of second instance of Substance 3D Viewer application when editing from Photoshop. 

• Save dialog when using multiple Smart Objects could update the wrong layer 

Adobe Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) Version 0.20.1
(Released Jan 7, 2025)

Fixed:

• Fixed common crash on mac when loading scenes

• Fixed issue with disappearing renders when enabling Ray tracing and clicking "To Photoshop"

Adobe Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) Version 0.20.0
(Released Dec 12, 2024)

Added:

• Compatibility check between Viewer app and Photoshop integration versions.

• Raised maximum render size from 4096 x 4096 to 8192 x 8192.

• 3D model to image can now generate images to match the canvas resolution.

Fixed:

• Snapshot results were visually different than Photoshop results.

• SBSAR material names sometimes displayed as ‘ref’ instead of actual name.

• Some text was clipped in the UI in some locales.

• Custom installation location in Creative Cloud desktop app caused Viewer app to not launch.

• The “To Photoshop” button shows up sometimes when not connected to a Photoshop document.

• File names beginning with the character “0” fail to load.

• Generate requests sometimes stop processing with no error.

• Unable to apply materials to instanced geometry.

Substance 3D Viewer for Photoshop (beta) Plugin Version 0.20.0
(Released Dec 12, 2024)

Added:

• Support for Photoshop documents with multiple artboards.

• Compatibility check between Viewer app and Photoshop integration versions.

Fixed:

• Older versions of Photoshop 3D workflows disrupted by the Substance 3D Viewer plugin.

• Crash in Adobe Bridge when using 3D files associated with Substance 3D Viewer.

• Background in Viewer fails to update when launched from Photoshop.

• Transform data fails to sync in Photoshop documents with multiple 3D Smart Objects .

• Fail to load PSB document backgrounds in Viewer.

• Fail to place files with extended characters in name as 3D Smart Object.

Adobe Substance 3D Viewer Version 0.19.1
(Released Nov 14, 2024)

Added:

• 3D model to image can now generate different aspect ratio choices.

• Support for importing GLTF lights.

• Support for exporting FBX lights.

• Support for exporting FBX camera animations.

• Keyboard shortcuts display in application menus.

• Tooltips for long strings when the full length will not fit are now shown on hover.

Fixed:

• Fixed a crash when unable to connect the rendering engine to Vulkan on unsupported GPUs.  A dialog will now appear notifying the system is incompatible.

• Incorrect icon shown in the navigation info bar for 2 button mouse zoom canvas command.

• Inconsistent visual appearance of images between snapshot, export image panel, and Send to Photoshop workflows.

• Trackpad scrolling missing in the export image panel.

• Missing scrollbar in the Generate workspace.

• Missing scrollbar in the Feedback panel.

• Zoom UI displaying in the incorrect location in the app header bar.

• Incorrect display names when importing SBSAR materials.

• Incorrect display names when importing cameras from FBX files.

• Incorrect transforms when importing cameras from FBX files.

• Incorrect transform when importing skinned meshes from FBX files.

• Incorrect transform when importing rigged mesh from FBX files.

• Incorrect scale transform when loading FBX files.

• Error when exporting FBX files as FBX files.

• Missing textures when exporting FBX files.

• Missing metallic textures when converting GLB to FBX files.

• Non-unit length normal vectors error when converting FBX to GLTF files.

• Error with image loading when saving and reloading GLB files.

• Camera transformation incorrect when exporting as FBX file.

• Geometry and texture information lost when converting GLB to FBX files.

• Missing localized strings for tessellation settings.

• Generate not working for Japanese language prompts.

• Strings are clipped in the interface.

Substance 3D Viewer for Photoshop (beta) Plugin Version 0.19.1
(Released Nov 14, 2024)

Added:

• Support for more 3D file formats in Photoshop (3MF, SAT, 3DS, DWF, DWFX, IPT, IAM, EXP, CGR, DAE, DXF, PRT, IGS, IGES, X_B, X_T, PRC, RFA, 3DM, PAR, STL, STP, STEP, U3D, WRL, VRML)

• Localized Viewer dialogs and controls in Photoshop to French, German, Japanese

• Support for 16-bit Photoshop documents as backgrounds when editing the Smart Object in Viewer

• A new tutorial to the Photoshop discover panel

• Compatibility checks between plugin and Substance 3D Viewer desktop

Fixed:

• Crash when viewing About dialog

• Multiple issues with transform and updates between Viewer and Photoshop

• Unable to place 3D files with extended characters in file name in Photoshop

• Transform is incorrect when editing mulitple smart objects from one Photoshop document 

• Multiple issues with handling file paths with extended characters

• Issue when using a 3D object inside a group or artboard

Adobe Substance 3D Viewer Version 0.18.2
(Released Oct 30, 2024)

Fixed:

• Crash when making selections.
• Missing fonts affecting interface display.

Changed:

• There is an error when saving USD files that breaks mesh visualization.  Files are now saved as ASD format when edited.

Substance 3D Viewer for Photoshop (beta) Plugin Version 0.9.2
(Released Oct 24, 2024)

Changes:

• Fixed transformation information showing up incorrectly when opening a 3D file Smart Object in Substance 3D Viewer. 
  

Substance 3D Viewer for Photoshop (beta) Plugin Version 0.9.1
(Released Oct 22, 2024)

Changes:

• Fixed a crash when using the Photoshop (beta) workflow and using the edit contents action multiple times in a row