Help! Substance Painter smart materials library freaking up the whole software all of a sudden

Sorry I'm afraid I won't be of much help, but..can you still create new smart materials? If so, I think I would try replicating the smart material you made by creating a complete new one, as that old one seem to be corrupted somehow. I hope Cyril or anybody else from Adobe assistance, can help you in a better way.

Unfortunately, I seem to be having the same issue, related to a specific smart material probably but I would like to try and recover it if possible. I can apply the material and all the layers load up on the side but they don't show on the model, previews don't load and just like in your case it's not letting me save or exit the program correctly.

Hi Cyril,
i honestly wouldn't know the answer to your question, as the few times something similar happened was straightforward after trying to save a custom smart material, possibly made out of other smart materials + custom bitpmaps. But this was the first time that it happened in a different situation, after starting a new texturing session, with a new model and without having saved any new smart materials, basically as some of them corrupted themselves all of a sudden. Luckyly deleting them wasn't that much of a big deal, as sometimes i create smart materials not to use as real smart materials but more as a way to "backup" textures i already made on a model, in case i'm not able to reimport a modified asset for some reason.

Hi @Mark - Da_Drood,

I was going to suggest there are probably corrupted files in the library causing the issue.

It's a bit hard to say why these assets were causing trouble without taking a look at those, but it could be related to the hardware specs, or the space left on your disk.

Do you have issues when creating a basic smart material? Or is it only when adding custom bitmaps and additionnal assets?

Let me know,