Changelog

This page contains a summary of changes between the official Knald releases.

• Initial Release.

• Added “P” hotkey for 3d preview viewport.
• Added a new Lys style contrast slider to Concavity & Convexity.
• Added a new settings/preferences management system
• Added additional 3d preview controls to settings system.
• Added low poly mesh refresh when mesh is modified externally. -You must hit bake for the changes to the mesh to appear in Knald.
• Added next-generation DDS export including high performance support for BC6H/BC7/11_11_10 formats.
• Added our new next generation baker.
• Added single a dual channel curvature maps to The Baker.
• Added single channel image space curvature.
• Added support for Vertex Color maps in The Baker.
• Added support for Cavity maps in The Baker.
• Added support for Convexity maps in The Baker.
• Added support for Material ID maps in The Baker.
• Added support for copy/paste (CTRL+C/CTRL+V).
• Added the ability to load/save Knald settings to a file (.ksf).
• Fixed beta documentation link from the help menu.
• Improved Anti-aliasing quality on tangent space normals.
• Mesh processing improvements.
• Miscellaneous improvements and optimizations.
• The Knald Demo now supports the full 1.1.0 feature set.
• Updated to latest FBX standard.

• Fixed a bug where hitting cancel on the bake meshes group would cause the HP mesh to become invalid.
• Fix for issue where certain saved settings might not be persistent in some cases.
• Fix for various modifier key sticking issues in 3d preview and settings cluster.
• Fix for very large TIFF files (8k) not opening correctly in Photoshop.
• Fixed a few minor GUI related issues.
• Fixed an issue where some GUI element positions were not saved correctly in the configuration .ini.
• Fixed an issue where under some circumstances baking MeshAO in Integrator mode after using the baker caused a crash.
• Fixed an issue where vertex colors were not rendered correctly for non-square textures.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

• Added a choice of ray distribution methods for the baker.
• Added an option to toggle the filtering of reflections within the 3d viewport.
• Updated to the latest FBX SDK (2016.1.2).
• Update hotkeys and top menus.
• Updated tooltips.
• Miscellaneous improvements and optimizations.

• Fix for issue where some FBX meshes caused mesh importing to hang.
• Fix for issue where High Poly planar faces (axis aligned) baked incorrectly in rare cases.
• Fix for issue where Concavity settings were not saving correctly.
• Fix for issue where Convexity settings were not saving correctly.
• Fix for issue where Curvature settings were not saving correctly.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

• Improved High Poly mesh loading & processing speed by an average of 25%.
• Improved baking speed by by an average of 5%.
• Added an option in the export tab to enable the saving of .ksf’s on user export.
• Added various sanity checks to ensure HP/LP/Cage meshes exist when baking from a saved .ksf.
• Updated tooltips.
• Miscellaneous improvements and optimizations.

• Fixed an issue during acceleration structure generation.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes

• Added support for Tangent & Object Space Bent Normal Maps in the Baker with various options to control occluder weighting (Cosine, Uniform Clamped & Uniform Unclamped) and how the magnitude is stored via normalization.
• Improved the mesh loader to support mesh files with a triangle count of over 330 million.
• Improved mesh loading speeds by up to 550%.
• Improved the mesh loader to support user adjustable bake balancing, which balances execution time between High Poly processing (import) and baking time based upon a slider value.
• Improved the mesh loader to support mesh files over 4GB in size.
• Added support for .ply Polygon File Format/Stanford Triangle Format.
• Added support for unnormalized height maps in the Baker.
• Added support for various options to control occluder weighting for baked Ambient Occlusion (Cosine, Uniform Clamped & Uniform Unclamped).
• Added support for various options to control occluder weighting for Mesh Ambient Occlusion (Cosine, Uniform Clamped & Uniform Unclamped).
• Added support for the reporting of various statistics for Height Maps in the Baker on (Min, Mid & Max for both normalized & unnormalized).
• Add support for the display of high poly vertex & triangle counts in the status bar while the Baker is loaded..
• Updated .kpbr with new presets (Brass #2, Rhodium, Tin, Tungsten + Concrete 1+2).
• Added an the option to use a cube primitive in the 3d preview .
• Added new Light theme for Knald via a dropdown option in the Preferences Tab.
• Added support for relative paths when saving/loading .ksf files.
• Added support for palletized PNG files.
• Added support for collapsible groups in the 3d preview.
• Updated the Dark theme so that ghosted/disabled GUI items are lighter for better legibility.
• Miscellaneous improvements to the load/save system.
• Miscellaneous tweaks to .kpbr to improve preview material aesthetics.
• Updated tooltips.
• Miscellaneous improvements and optimizations.

• Fixed an issue where .ksf files did not correctly restore bake settings when the Baker was not initialized.
• Fixed an issue where the 3d preview or main window are off-screen after startup on some occasions.
• Fixed an issue where Knald failed to process loaded images or bake correctly on some occasions.
• Fixed an issue where the Material ID default initial value was shown as black in the color picker.
• Fixed an issue in the Baker where expected ray hits would occasionally fail along triangle edges in some situations.
• Fixed an issue where under some circumstances the Material ID color schemes were not initialized correctly resulting in a black color picker.
• Fixed an issue where Flip Green was saved in an incorrect state in some situations.
• Fixed an issue where the Image AO scale slider incorrectly forced the regeneration of Mesh AO when moved.
• Fixed an issue where OS Normals, Vertex Colors & Material ID were not checked by default in export settings even though they were baked.
• Fixed an issue where baker size ratios were not maintained correctly for non-square sizes.
• Fixed an issue where some palletized/indexed PNG files were not supported correctly.
• Fixed an issue where some PNG with an alpha channel were not supported correctly.
• Fixed an issue where greyscale PNG files of less than 8bits per pixel were not supported correctly.
• Fixed an issue where some custom suffixes were not saved correctly after restarting Knald.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes

• Miscellaneous improvements and optimizations.

• Fixed an issue where some meshes would cause an optimization error during baking.
• Fixed an issue where IMG AO doesn't show correctly if Normal & AO were baked and then the integrator is updated.
• Fixed an issue where Mesh AO doesn't show correctly after switching between the AO & Transmission tabs.
• Fixed an issue where the AO group would not show if Normal, Transmission & AO were baked and then the integrator is updated.
• Fixed an issue where the Mesh AO activation checkbox appears inverted relative to UI after integration.
• Fixed an issue where the Baker Height & Width spinboxes could get out of sync.
• Fixed an issue where the Bake button doesn't revert to the correct pre-process state after loading a .ksf
• Miscellaneous bug fixes