# Simplygon 9 Release Notes

# Latest Simplygon 9.2 release 9.2.9300.0

Maya
- Optimized export of selection sets (vertex / edge sets).
- Added missing dgm (DoNotGenerateMaterial) flag to documentation.
Max
- Fixed transparency issues for both STD and Physical material.
- Fixed crash issue when generating casters in UI (Max 2017).
API
- Deprecated IsFrozen setting in SceneNode.
- Fixed baked opacity type (opacity or transparency) not being set correctly in the output material properties after casting using pipelines.
- Fixed issue in BillboardCloudProcessor which ignored value of texture coordinate level and always defaulted to level 0.
License application
- Added separation of elevated and standard user licenses in license application.
Simplygon Grid
- It is now possible to select which network interface the Grid agent should use (see SIMPLYGON_9_GRID_IFINDEX).

UE5
- Ported UE4 plugin to UE5. For supported feature set
UE4
- Fixed crash when processing meshes without material using LOD Recipe
- Fixed issue where processing 100+ meshes using LOD Recipe freezes the machine
API
- Added support for IndexToDirect attribute indexing mode in FBX exporter
- Fixed issue where running several remeshings in sequence on one scene will overwrite textures mapping
- Fixed issue where running several material bakings in a cascaded pipelines gives textures with same name

Max
- Fixed issues when importing morph targets.
API
- Fixed issue with ranking of vertex colors.
- Fixed issue where LogicalCoreLimit setting was not respected.
- Added conservative memory allocation feature flag (see MemoryConservativeAllocation).
- Fixed issue where name and alternative name was not copied in Array::NewCopy().

Max
- Added support for ColorCorrection material node.
- Added recursive handling of material nodes.
- Added support for additional Bitmap material node settings.
- Fixed issue with mismatching AnimHandle that uses ulong data type.
UE4
- Added geometry data casting workflow using LOD Recipe.
- Preserve vertex colors when using native reduction interface.
- Fixed compilation for non-Windows platforms.
API
- Added ShadingBrightnessContrastNode.
- Added support for import/export EXR image format.
- Added MappingLayerIndex setting to select which mapping image layer to cast in GeometryDataCaster.
- Fixed issue in ColorCorrectionNode.
- Fixed issue that blocked loading of floating-point textures.
- Fixed crash if a shading node has null input.
- Marked RemeshingLegacy related interfaces as deprecated.
Tools
- Simplygon License Application
  - Added -Verbose option.
  - Added -Uninstall option.
  - Added support for running as standard (not elevated) user.

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

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.