Beta Testers!

Hey all,

I'm excited to announce the immediate availability of the Fuse 1.3 beta! During the next couple of weeks, we'll be working hard to shake out any bugs that we find during this beta period. Thank you in advance for your help in reporting bugs. As a reminder, please make a topic in the discussion forum of the beta group with any bug reports. Please also feel free to let us know any suggestions, questions, comments or concerns. Happy Fusing!

Change notes for this release:

Importing Clothing/Characters

• Added the ability to copy existing maps from other Characters
  
• Added a preview of the Clothing Mask when choosing substance input names
  
• Added tons of helpful documentation to the Import Wizards
  
• More information when an item can't be imported
  
• Improved stability when importing many files (hundreds)
  
• Improved blendshape generation speed

• Asynchronous substance rendering - faster loading times!
  
• Better selection visualization
  
• A very simple "toon" lighting mode
  
• The background no longer has compression artifacts, and the grid pattern no longer stretches asymmetrically when scaling window
  
• You can now press "Delete" to delete a clothing item when in the Texture tab
  
• Persistent selection across Assemble/Clothing/Texture tabs, when valid selection
  
• Unified selection visualization
  
• Open .fuse files with Fuse on Windows, icon association
  
• Added "Set Default" to Body
  
• Added "Save into Folder" as an option during export

• Image planes (View->Image Plane->Add Image Plane)
  
• Added the ability to edit display names, and tags for imported items
  
• Added "Save Defaults" button to export dialog
  
• Added support for different facial blendshapes from the rigger (important for Male/Female, versioning, and other differentiation down the line)
  
• Drag and drop a file in Fuse to open it!

• Increased resolution of eyebrows, beards, hair in Body Substance
  
• Wear and dirt effects for Clothing
  
• Modesty maps
  
• More blendshapes for face, and nose, much better control
  
• "Highlights" in the hair substance
  
• Improved teeth topology, increased nose mesh resolution
  
• Aged Male/Female Characters
  
• Teenage Male/Female Characters
  
• Toon Male/Female Characters (later this week)
  
• Tons of new military content including new categories/content for Masks, Gloves

• Fixed an issue with texture packing when exporting texture maps larger than the packing size
  
• Fixed Female Fit B-G shoulder issue when fitting clothing
  
• Fixed a shader issue that could cause a white screen for some users
  
• Fixed an issue when adding matching parts, then undo/redoing the action
  
• Fixed a crash caused by adding matching parts with clothing
  
• Fixed memory issue when loading files with large textures on Windows
  
• "Reset All" in Customize tab now correctly resets to Virtual Asset's starting position