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Changelog

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 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.

Bug Fixes

  • 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

Release v1.2.1

New Features, Improvements and Optimizations

  • Miscellaneous improvements and optimizations.

Bug Fixes

  • 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

Release v1.3.0

New Features, Improvements and Optimizations

  • Added support for Position Maps (Volumetric Gradient) in the Baker.
  • Added support for Texture Transfer Maps in the Baker.
  • Added support for High Poly Bump/Detail Maps in the Baker.
  • Improved the aesthetics & accuracy of materials with lower roughness levels within the 3d Preview.
  • Updated tooltips.
  • Miscellaneous improvements and optimizations.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where some export suffixes were not propagating correctly when the dropdown menus were used.
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes
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