Google says it didn't happen last year, to the search query's knowledge. https://www.google.com/search?q=Allegorithmic+Christmas+sale+2016&rlz=1C1GIWA_enUS570US570&oq=Allegorithmic+Christmas+sale+2016&aqs=chrome..69i57.9808j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
It would be better to make a thread in the Allegorithmic section. Anyways, Smart Materials are a different thing. Made in Painter for Painter. You want to publish sbsar files out from Designer and add them to the shelf in Painter. Allegorithmic have documentation and youtube tutorials showing how to do this.