VStitcher 8.0 and Lotta 4.0 Release Build 50376

This release includes the following new and enhanced features:

• Smart buttons

  • New trim type

  • Fully configurable

  • Drag and drop placement

• Smart zippers

  • New trim type

  • Single smart object consisting of a number of default parts

  • Fully configurable

  • Drag and drop placement

• Shoes

  • New resource with extensive supporting infrastructure

  • Fully configurable

  • Drag and drop placement

• Asset libraries

  • Fully integrated into application

  • Easy access to remote libraries

  • Ability to create own libraries using Open Platform

• Undo/redo and history

  • Undo and redo actions

  • View a history of actions taken

• Comprehensive element naming

  • Ability to rename all elements

• Batch simulation quality review tool

  • Improved UI and enhanced functionality

• Trims infrastructure

  • Edge and piece assignable classifications

• Reset material color

  • Resetting means the diffuse color no longer has any effect on the diffuse image

• 3D styling partial clear

  • Ability to clear (or undo) parts of the post simulation styling done using the 3D styling tools

• Lines overhaul

  • Uniting VStitcher and Lotta lines functionality

  • Enhanced pen tool options

• Element layer ordering

  • Ability to set the relative layer order of each element

• Pen tool magnetic trace

  • Ability to draw lines that are constrained to be parallel to an edge

• Repeatable trims

  • Ability to apply 2D trim to an edge or curved line

• Changing material type

  • Ability to drag and drop materials from type to type

• Multi avatars (Labs)

  • Multiple avatars simultaneously displayed

  • Enables combination of different garments in one image

  • Included in image output

• Aligning multi layered seams

  • Ability to specify the alignment for multilayered seams

• Replace piece and retain attributes

  • Ability to replace a pattern piece in a garment, while maintaining attributes of the original piece, such as stitching, positioning, symmetry, and so on

• Improved DXF import UI

• Adding face/back support to 2D trims

• Animated GIF output

• Snapshot functionality extended

  • Simulating same set of patterns with different line properties on pattern edges and line, now saved per snapshot

  • Simulating same set of patterns with different grid size, now saved per snapshot.

• Additional parametric avatar poses

• Adam - arms closer, squat, ski, and workwear

• Deborah - arms closer, arms up, squat, ski, and workwear

• Maya - arms down

• Plugin support for animated avatars and export of MP4/GIF format

• V-Ray real-time render support and integration

• Fur support for Blender and V-Ray

• Alvanon DRM support

• Auto save View settings (Main Menu > View menu options)

• Enhancements of existing parametric avatar poses

• Linen skin texture for Mannequin mode

• Gestures on touch compatible devices enabled by default

• Improved transfer of material color logic

• Improved colorway support for pattern pieces

• Group seam alignment options

• New tech-pack template

• Various minor simulation improvements

• Various minor UI enhancements

• 3D view

  • Polo garment display scrunching up at the placket

  • Edge of pattern pieces in Prepare mode not smooth

  • Pattern pieces appear to pucker

• Actions

  • Clone by offset changes fill on Lotta layer if base layer is transparent

  • Dart and pleat issues

  • Extend/shrink to edges causes internal line to go outside pattern

  • Extract breaking piece in two due to internal line

  • Pleat jumps when moving corner points

  • Pleat position incorrect on slave side of inner symmetry

  • Resizing piece affects grading

  • Slice distortion on pattern

  • Stitching applied to internal line flipping when symmetry cancelled

  • Stitching internal line causing excess fabric

• Adobe Illustrator integration

  • Artwork misplaces when synching with VStitcher or Lotta

  • Image repeats in 2D view

• Arrange mode

  • Missing silhouette in 2D window after importing scanned avatar

• Avatars

  • Hair on mannequin displaying incorrectly

• Channels

  • Incorrect normal image map appears after blending with artwork

  • Normal image map looks stretched and does not display details on waistband

  • Specular spread not working on trim and artwork

• Database

  • Selecting elastic band test using FAB, displays incorrect interface

• Export

  • Export of VSP causes pattern to be disabled in 3D view

• Gizmo

  • Not displaying on hood cluster

• Import

  • Grading not showing correctly

  • Internal line grading distortion

  • Missing corner points

• Intersection fill

  • Print position not saved

  • Line residue separated on intersection

  • Issues in filling Lotta shapes

• Labs

  • Enabling material blending mode causes denim wash artwork to appear bumpy and rough

• Magic mirror

  • Operating inconsistently

  • Producing non symmetrical shape

• Materials

  • Artwork handles not selectable outside piece

  • Cannot change inner color of trim

  • Changing 3D trim front piece color does not affect inside piece

  • Changing back seam image in a seam group, changes front seam color instead

  • Missing back image in VStitcher attachment causing inability to sync trim face and back image when changing color

  • Seam texture position moves after save

  • Seams assigned on internal lines are blurred

  • Material blending and transparency always affecting face and back

• Rendering

  • Ray trace not reading different material assignment on multi sectioned trims

  • Render field of view only being applied to one view

• Simulation

  • After simulation, cuff pattern piece previously added to new cluster is removed from 3D view on clicking snapshot

  • Fold angle affects results

  • Folding issue - when using symmetrical patterns for both sides of pocket welt, simulation does not look the same

  • Random system crash

  • Different results between fully stitched dart and directly stitched dart

  • Avatar diaper clipping through garments

  • Loading snapshot of wired bra triggers simulation

• Snapshots

  • Incorrect avatar loaded

  • No snapshots saved after simulation

• Transparency

  • If fabric has transparency, when garment is rendered as FBX, sides don't match, and a double-layered look displays

• User experience

  • Wrong flipping feedback when flipping pattern with Lotta drawing

• User interface

  • Chinese characters appear in boxes (Windows only)

  • Edit point measurement needs two clicks to edit in graphic measurements in 2D view

  • Avatar resource list width resets when search reset

• VS attachments

  • Placing attachment shape on pattern, changes image layout

  • Inability to flip VS attachment artwork

• Fabric shrink: After application, may cause inconsistent placement in 2D and 3D views

• Seam material: Extra large seam material applied to small piece may not display accurately

• Cross line: Mismatch may occur when drawn across edges, one of which has a fully stitched dart

• Slide: Distance value displays in Context view for points, instead of transformation

• Stitching: Internal line to internal line stitch may not take pleat into account

• VStitcher 8.0 and Lotta 4.0 support files created in earlier VStitcher and Lotta versions

• Earlier VStitcher and Lotta versions do not support version 8.0/4.0 files

With the release of version 8.0/4.0, the company's support now extends to:

• Versions 7.8 to 8.0 inclusive for VStitcher

• Versions 3.8 to 4.0 inclusive for Lotta