Unreal Engine 4.12 - Advanced integration

Requirements

• UE4 Version: 4.12
• Simplygon API Version: 8.0+
• Simplygon Grid Version : 8.0+
• SPL Version: 8.0
• SSF Version : 2.0

Note

Windows 7 users need to copy D3DCOMPILER47.dll to Engine\Binaries\ThirdParty\NotForLicensees\Simplygon To be able to use Simplygon 8.0 SDK

Major changes

• Simplygon 8.0 API is now used by default.
• Official support for Simplygon Grid when using distributed Mesh Merging. Simplygon Grid is enabled by default.
• Distributed Mesh Merging can utilized Simplygon Grid from Mac builds of the editor. (Currently only available for HLOD.)
• Added a GUID to UStaticMesh.
• Simplygon Replacement Volume has been moved into the Simplygon plugin.

Material simplification

• Flatten Material Caching has now been added when doing material simplification. You can control the cache policy using console variable.
• Automatic Material Mask Generation (Experimental)
• World Space Normal Map Generation (Experimental)

Simplygon REST client

• Support for multi part upload.
• Minimum upload file size is configurable. Files larger than minimum upload size would be split up for upload.
• Pending Jobs Growl notification added. Fbx Import Pipeline / Fbx Scene Importer
• Updated the import pipeline to skip regeneration of hash of the same file. Helps improve import times when loading large scenes with thousands of meshes.

Other changes

• Integration code is more Mac friendly (compile fixes only not Mac support)
• Integration code is more Linux friendly (compile fixes only not Linux support)
• Improved progress feedback when generating proxy meshes for HLOD
• Added notification when using Simplygon Grid during proxy mesh generation.
• Added support to use vertex colors to guide the reducer.
• Fixed per-property sizing when generating material proxies.
• Refactorized material proxy generation in static mesh editor.
• General bug fixes