0.4.2 beta

Gimel Studio v0.4.2 beta was released “September 2020”

v0.4.2 was mainly focused on adding more filetype support, improving stability/performance and fixing bugs. This release also includes 4 new core nodes for converting images to PBR maps for 3D as well as some misc. input and effect nodes.

General

  • Added support for exporting images as:

  • BMP

  • PCX

  • GIF

  • XBM

  • EPS

  • WEBP

  • TGA

  • TIFF

  • Added OpenCV as a dependancy

UI

  • Fixed layout issues

  • Expanded Properties Panel and Image Viewport panels to look better by default

  • Node Graph panel is now NOT floatable/dockable. The other panels can be docked around it though.

  • Dark theme is now the default

  • Fixed window title on project load and save

  • Rendering message now shows up in the Image Viewport instead of in the center of the screen. :)

Performance Improvements

  • UI and renderer now run on separate threads (this means more speed and less GUI freeze!)

Nodes

  • Image node now has additional support for importing image filetypes:

  • JPEG

  • WEBP

  • TGA

  • TIFF

  • Added 7 new core nodes

  • Image Color

  • Noise Image

  • Effect Spread

  • To AO Map

  • To Specular Map

  • To Bump Map

  • To Roughness Map

Node Graph

  • Added Toggle Node Previews feature in context menu

Project File

  • Added intial error handling for opening corrupted/old files

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed bug with Output node preview

  • Fixed bug with Image thumb not showing on file drag n’ drop

  • Fixed some issues on Linux