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VStitcher 2026.2.1 Release Notes
Release Date: September 22nd, 2026

VStitcher brings displacement mapping directly into the real-time 3D viewer, giving you a more detailed and realistic view of materials as you design. This release also introduces virtual texturing for improved texture quality and performance, expands Auto Stitch with ruler support and improved discoverability, and adds enhancements across plugin licensing, Stylezone Connect translations, API capabilities, pattern information, and overall usability. Continued design system, quality, and stability improvements round out the release.

Real-time displacement in the 3D viewer
- Displacement mapping is now supported in the Unreal Engine 3D viewer, in both Standard and Lite.
- New setting in Preferences → Rendering, in the 3D Display Engine section: Enable Displacement in real-time 3D viewer. Off by default for all users and all files, including files that already contain displacement maps.
- The setting applies to the open scene without restarting the viewer, persists across sessions, and is included in Preferences import and export.
- The setting is independent of the production-render displacement option, and is unavailable when OpenGL (Deprecated) is the selected 3D Display Engine.
- The setting can be read and written through the VStitcher API, with the same OpenGL restriction.
- The warning “Displacement is not supported for Unreal production renders” has been removed, and the Displacement Map Channel editor title no longer reads “(Ray Trace Only)”.
- Enabling displacement increases GPU load and may affect performance on complex garments.
- Windows is the supported platform in this release; macOS is planned for a later phase.

Import Rulers during Auto Stitch
- Auto Stitch now imports the rulers, carrying across ruler Name, Type, 2D position and 3D position.
- Imported rulers use the unit of measure set in VStitcher preferences, not the unit used in the template.
- When the garment already has rulers, a prompt appears before Auto Stitch completes offering Merge with existing Rulers, Replace existing Rulers or Keep existing Rulers. Cancel aborts the entire Auto Stitch run.
- Undo removes the rulers added from the template and unstitches the garment.
- If a template pattern piece has no rulers, nothing is added for that piece.
- Highlight Ruler is not included in this release.

Plugin license expiration and removal notifications
- VStitcher now shows a Plugin Access Changed dialog when plugins fall outside the account's Cloud License entitlement, listing the affected plugins by name. The dialog appears once per event.
- In Preferences → Plugins, plugins outside the license show a grey ✕ in the Active column and a red No License badge in the Status column and are sorted to the bottom of the list.
- Rescan Plugins Folder has been renamed Refresh Plugins and now checks Cloud License entitlements as well as the local plugins folder.
- Failed and Plugin Not Found statuses are retained across sessions until the plugin is removed with the minus button.
- An unlicensed plugin cannot be re-added with the plus button while it remains outside the license.

Translations for Stylezone Connect
- The Stylezone Connect sign-in and site-connection flow now follows the language set in VStitcher Preferences. It was previously English-only.
- Translated surfaces include the License and Notifications tabs, Log in, Sign up and Logout, the Cloud License and Dongle License sections, and the hamburger menu.
- Task statuses (Waiting, Processing, Job Done, Job Failed) and connection messages are translated.
- The language switches without restarting Stylezone Connect. VStitcher still requires a restart for its own interface.
- Job names and file names remain untranslated. Sign-in pages served by Stylezone are localized separately and are outside this change.
- On a new profile where VStitcher has not yet been run, Connect opens in English.

Virtual Texturing
- The Unreal Engine 3D viewer