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TacosAndBourbon
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Oct 3, 2025 11:18 PM UTC
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Are my stencils misaligned or am I just using them all wrong?

Using a scratch stencil, I see that some scratches show up properly oriented, some seem misaligned, and some seem tiled (even when tiling is disabled).

 

How do I properly align the stencil properly so the effected area is more predictable?

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    Cyril Dellenbach
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    Cyril DellenbachCommunity Manager
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    Oct 22, 2025 9:59 AM UTC

    I'm just updating this thread to confirm this is a bug we're facing with Stencils and reimporting meshes with the reprojection on.

    In the meantime, the Projection Tool should be an efficent workaround.

     

    Best regards,

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    Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | Product Manager | Substance Painter
    TacosAndBourbonAuthor
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    Oct 21, 2025 11:58 PM UTC

    Great tip! Playing around, it seems to do what I need it to and I haven't been able to break it. Appreciate your workaround

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    TacosAndBourbonAuthor
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    Oct 21, 2025 11:58 PM UTC

    Good question. My project configuration has "Preserve strokes positions on mesh" enabled, and yes- I have reimported mesh. 

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    Cyril Dellenbach
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    Cyril DellenbachCommunity Manager
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    Oct 16, 2025 12:39 PM UTC

    Have you by reimport a mesh with the "Preserve Strokes postion" activated? This could be a lead to understand this bug.

     

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    Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | Product Manager | Substance Painter
    Cyril Dellenbach
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    Cyril DellenbachCommunity Manager
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    Oct 7, 2025 8:53 AM UTC

    Hmmm, that's unusual.

     

    Do you have by any chance overlapping UVs? Which version of Painter are you using?

     

    Let me know.

     

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    Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | Product Manager | Substance Painter
    TacosAndBourbonAuthor
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    Oct 10, 2025 2:45 AM UTC

    Hey yes, the pink UVs are overlapping. I can offset them by 1 if that helps?

     

    And the video is from 11.0.2. I've since updated to 11.0.3 to resolve this but it's still a fairly frequent issue

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