This release includes the following new features:

• Integration with Substance

• Browzwear Render Cloud

• Enhanced annotations including the use of an external image editor

• 3D styling upgrades, including:

  • Improvement in simulation speed

  • Freeze and move draped pieces

• 3D adjustment of pattern pieces by dragging

• Load a snapshot on a different avatar

• Vector fabrics

• Guidelines

• Detection of changes to source texture files

• Access to SmartDesign files

• Support of enhanced properties for closed cut mark shapes

• Toggle display of 3D stitch pins

• Balancing parametric avatar silhouette

This release includes fixes for the following issues:

• Moving a pattern piece in the 3D window below another piece and then multi stitching it may cause the piece to move to the top

• glTF file exported in ‘Single UV layout for all pieces’ displays as glossy in certain viewers

• When cloning a colorway containing applied materials with hidden layers, the layers may become unhidden

• Corrupted file may generate misleading error message

• Puffy property causing a pattern piece to not display in 3D window

• Unable to overwrite file using Save as

• Unable to pinch the back side of a fabric using puffy property

• Using a Mac, cannot paste into color picker # text field

• Switching from one colorway to another adversely affecting display of trim on internal element

• Using a particular combination of pose, tension map, and lighting, avatar texture may not display properly

• Browzwear Connect error message displaying when switching to later VStitcher version

• APF file inadvertently deleted

• Smart zipper assigned to SmartDesign template file may move when switching between different options

• When reopening DB Admin, database is empty

• Unable to access fabric physics database

• With particular material element and Ai artwork, error on saving BW file

• Exported 3D object not displaying as expected

• Copy and paste of pattern piece from one instance of VStitcher to another may not include assigned artwork

• In certain circumstances, user may be able to move locked internal line

• Simulation of 3D trim may not be accurate

• Using puffy property on graded sizes may cause distortion in prepare mode and simulation

• Stitch issue with graded sizes

• Enhanced layer blending issue with particular garment displaying a hole

• Rendering

  • Ray trace render displaying element although thickness set to 0

  • V-Ray render incorrectly displaying black lines on collar piece

  • Communication errors with dongle may cause ray trace render to fail

  • V-Ray rendering of transparent fabrics that cling to avatar’s body does not display accurately

  • Rendering using RenderStreet sometimes producing distorted garment output

  • Rendering with Blender, when there is a displacement map on an artwork in a garment with cut marks, creates a zigzag effect on the lines

  • When enhanced layer blending is turned on rendered color may be different

• Lotta 2020 May Edition and VStitcher 2020 May Edition both support files created in earlier VStitcher and Lotta versions

• Earlier VStitcher and Lotta versions do not support 2020 May Edition files

With the release of the 2020 May Edition of Lotta and VStitcher, the company's support now extends to the following versions of Lotta and VStitcher:

• 2020 May Edition

• 2020 January Edition

• 2019 August Edition