This page contains a summary of changes between the official Knald releases.
Release v1.0.0
Initial Release.
Release v1.1.0
New Features, Improvements and Optimizations
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.
Bug Fixes
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.
Release v1.1.1
New Features, Improvements and Optimizations
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.
Bug Fixes
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.
Release v1.1.2
New Features, Improvements and Optimizations
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.
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue during acceleration structure generation.
Miscellaneous bug fixes
Release v1.2.0
New Features, Improvements and Optimizations
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 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.
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.
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue where .ksf files did not correctly restore bake settings when the Baker was not initialized.
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
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