handplane 1.4 Release

Sean VanGorder

A big update for the popular normal map tool

The guys behind handplane have recently released version 1.4 of their popular normal map software. The update includes some substantial changes, the biggest being the removal of the licensing system for the transition to freeware. This release also features the addition of a new xnormal plugin, allowing artists to bake directly into the Source engine tangent space.

Other changes include...

• Improved handling of smoothing groups related to Unreal Output
• Created SMD importer for Xnormal
• UI Tweaks

Download handplane 1.4 directly

For any questions or comments, stop by our Official handplane support thread

NurmanZh

Cool!

anglorum

Swagalicious.

AlexKola

Wonderful, thanks for the update Sean.

cmgillett

Awesome, great news!

AlecMoody

Small update that doesn't warrant a news posting. We put up a new build with an updated xnormal plugin for the 3.18.8 release:
http://www.handplane3d.com/handplane_1_4_1.rar

We will try and keep up with recompiling for each new xnormal release. In this case we missed a build so if you are on xnormal 3.18.7 you should update to version .8