1.2.0

What's New

• Blender 4.1 support
• Denoise option for baking (example)
• Bake channel to vertex color (thanks to @morirain)
• Custom bake targets for packing multiple channels into a single image.
• New mask type: Inbetween stack modifier, backface, and realtime edge detection (example)
• Option to bake mask as image, this can be really useful for realtime edge detection since it won’t work as a bump map if it’s not baked yet.
• Option to use image/vertex color alpha for mask input (example, demo)
• Option to use more accurate color blending (unlike default Photoshop)
• Geometry nodes color outputs are now detected when you try to add available vertex color as layer/mask
• Box mapping option when using generated or object vector (demo)
• Partial Chinese translation (thanks to @morirain)

Performance improvements

• Group is no longer heavy to use when you only use it for some channels.
• Ucupaint is now making sure to only use necessary nodes. For example, disabling layer/mask will also delete most of the related nodes, since it won’t affect the final texture.
• Multiple objects with the same material now can merge layers/masks a whole lot faster.

Notable bugfixes

• Fix: Cannot bake object with geometry nodes on Blender 4.0+
• Fix: Merging layers inside a group is causing weird layer orders
• Normal map now can use any UVMaps
• Remove unnecessary ‘Misc’ tab
• Normal channel is no longer creating weird artifacts if you haven’t used it in layers yet.
• Toggle eraser will still work even if you’re using custom brushes
• And more...