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TacosAndBourbon
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October 3, 2025

Are my stencils misaligned or am I just using them all wrong?

  • October 3, 2025
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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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October 22, 2025

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,

Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | QA Support Artist | Adobe
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TacosAndBourbonAuthor
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October 21, 2025

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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October 21, 2025

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

Cyril Dellenbach
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Cyril DellenbachCommunity Manager
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October 16, 2025

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

 

Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | QA Support Artist | Adobe
Cyril Dellenbach
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Cyril DellenbachCommunity Manager
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October 7, 2025

Hmmm, that's unusual.

 

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

 

Let me know.

 

Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | QA Support Artist | Adobe
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TacosAndBourbonAuthor
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October 10, 2025

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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