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RELEASE: May 6th, 2021
BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE TO: Extension Pack 5 + 5 R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 
MINIMUM MARI REQUIREMENT (for Mari 4.x): MARI 4.1v2
MINIMUM REQUIREMENT (for Mari 5.x): Unsupported due to Python Version differences
RECOMMENDED: MARI 4.7v1 or higher
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MARI NON-COMMERCIAL is not supported due to restrictions by the Foundry |
ICONLEGEND
New Feature 
Feature Update 
Feature available in Nodegraph only 
Feature requires Mari 4.7 or higher
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EXTENSION PACK 5 R6 |
- Extension Pack 5 R6, the 5th free update of the Extension Pack 5 Series, introduces a powerful baking Bridge to Substance® and continued bugfixing.
For a full overview of the features released in Extension Pack 5 see each dedicated release notes.
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NEW FEATURES |
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Substance Baker Bridge |
The Substance Baker Bridge gives access to the Industry Leading, highspeed Baking Toolset of Substance 3d by Adobe® from within Mari.
Key Features of the Substance Baker Bridge include:
- Ultra fast baking of Ambient Occlusion, Curvature, Thickness and many more via Substance Automation Toolkit or Substance Designer (12.1+).
- Full GPU Acceleration where available, fast CPU baking otherwise
- 15 different Bakers
- Per Baker Override settings (e.g. udim range, resolution etc.)
- Bake Previews
- direct import of results into Mari
- highres to lowres Baking and mesh-linking (e.g. you only want to get occlusion from a couch onto the floor but not the walls)
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The Substance Baker Bridge requires either 'Substance Automation Toolkit' or 'Substance Designer (12.1)' to work. The Substance products are 3rd party software, not included with Extension Pack or MARI. |
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Paint Through Image Flip |
Convenience Buttons to flip your Paint Through Image in X or Y have been added to the Paint Through Toolbar
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FEATURE CHANGES - TOOLS |
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Image Manager Drag & Drop |
- Dragging multiple selected images from the Image Manager into either Nodegraph or Layerstack and selecting a Nodetype from the
Extension Pack Node Type Chooser, will now create one Node/Layer per Image
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BUGFIXES |
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Project Templates |
- On Linux, pressing the 'View Template Location' Button in the Import Project Template and Manage Project Templates Dialogs, had no effect
- Unticking the 'Clear Existing Nodegraph' Option in the Import Project Template had no effect, and even when off, the existing nodegraph was still removed
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Unreal Advanced Shader |
- Fixed a bug in the Unreal Advanced Shader, where changing the Occlusion Slider had not effect.
- Fixed a bug in the Unreal Advanced Shader, when ingesting Materials via the Mari Material Ingest Tool, and some channels were not tagged as scalar
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MultiMixer X4 / X8 |
- The Opacity Sliders of the MultiMixer X4 & MultiMixer X8 Node were scaling the opacity exponentially down. The result was, that the same
slider values compared to a merge node was producing a different opacity
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STUDIO DEPLOYMENT UPDATES |
- If you have previously downloaded the Help Files for offline usage you should replace it with the new one using the method described here