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November 19, 2025

Stencil and Projection tool broken

  • November 19, 2025
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Stencil: after draging a alpha texture into the slot i try to draw on a paint layer that i created on a black mask. the preview of the texture works and i am able to scale rotate and move the alpha. but when i try to draw it on the mesh nothing happens. weirdly enough, when i draw on the UV/2D view it works. Its only broken in the 3D view.

 

Projection tool: when i drag a texture into the stencil it does not show up in my paint buffer (the buffer just stays grey) so i dont see what i project but when i left click, it actually project the thing onto the mesh. So just the preview is broken. 

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Cyril Dellenbach
Community Manager
Community Manager
November 21, 2025

Okay, so this is probably a different bug we're currently investigating in. In general, I would advise you to use the Projection tool instead, but considering there's this preview issue with 11.1... You either have to wait for the bugfix or rollback to 11.0.3.

Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | QA Support Artist | Adobe
RoukuoAuthor
Participant
November 20, 2025

Yes, i did update the mesh a while back and reimported it. 

Cyril Dellenbach
Community Manager
Community Manager
November 20, 2025

Have you by any chance reimport an updated mesh in the project?

 

Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | QA Support Artist | Adobe
RoukuoAuthor
Participant
November 20, 2025

My graphics drivers are up to date but i also tried an older/stable one. Did not make any difference. I also tried ortographic view since my tutor mentioned that sometimes that helped but sadly this didnt work out for me as well. I am using the Steam Version of Painter but i also tried using the latest creative cloud version and it did not make any difference as well.


Cyril Dellenbach
Community Manager
Community Manager
November 20, 2025

Hello @Roukuo,

 

Thank you for the report.

 

For the Projection tool, I was indeed able to reproduce and I think this is unfortunately a bug since 11.1. We'll investigate and look for solution.

 

For the Stencil though, I wasn't able to reproduce the issue. Do you have maybe a video or more context, so I can have a better idea on what's happening?

 

Let me know.

 

Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | QA Support Artist | Adobe
RoukuoAuthor
Participant
November 19, 2025

corection: Projection tool: when i drag a texture into the Grayscale slot it does not show up in my paint buffer (the buffer just stays lightgrey like nothing happened)