Simplygon 9 Release Notes

Latest Simplygon 9.2 release 9.2.1400.0 (initial release)

Major updates

• See What's new in Simplygon 9.2!

Simplygon API updates

• Moved RemeshingModeManualPosition from global settings to RemeshingSettings.
• Added support for 32-bit floating point textures in TextureLoader and -Data.
• Added pipeline cloning support.
• Allow changing up vector in BillboardCloudProcessorSettings through UpVector.
• Ignore applying PNG gamma on load to fix normal issues using the global GlobalIgnorePNGGammaOnImageLoadSetting setting.
• Other minor API changes (see Upgrading from Simplygon C++ API 9.1 and earlier to Simplygon C++ API 9.2 and later).
• Python 3.10 support

Plugin updates

• Added pipeline cloning support (in scripting) to Max/Maya plugin.
• Added support for loading and upgrading settings via script.

Pipeline/distribution

• Fixed RunSceneFromFile to take embedded textures into account.

File format updates

• FBXExporter now allows to set the embed references flag.
• Fixed bug where normal maps weren't imported when the OBJ had been exported from Blender.
• FBXImporter now supports writing out the .fbm folder to SIMPLYGON_9_TEMP using the global GlobalUnpackFBXInSimplygonTempDirectorySetting setting.