Feature Requests

A few key features in substance 3D painter makes it frustrating to try to hand paint in the program, notably around the color picker. The fact that the color palette needs to be open to use the color picker leads to annoying scenarios, especially since it closes automatically when switching from brush to eraser and back. It would be nice to be able to dock the color picker, or if it just stayed open.Also, it’s really annoying that the color picker always open at the same spot on the screen, especially when using dual monitors. I often use my main monitor to create the base layers and generators, then move the window to my tablet to paint over it, but then the color picker always pops on my main monitor and I have to get my mouse to drag it back to the tablet. This combined with the fact that it closes when switching tool is really disrupting. The only fix I could find was to close the program and reopen which is not ideal.Thirdly it would be nice to hide the brush cursor when picking a

I would like to be able to just hit a key to toggle my brush to material picker quickly, as when painting Normals and AO it is tedious to keep switching between the picker and the brush from the toolbar, especially on these gradient sensitive maps.  This feature would improve workflow incredibly when adjusting these items.  Photoshop, Illustrator etc all do this very quickly, but I was surprised that Substance does not.

The ability when creating the project or reimporting a mesh to specifiy which UV channel to use for texturing/baking. Our techical dept has set up engine shaders that use UV1 for masks created in substance painter using baked data. The current workaround of exporting a seperate bake only mesh with the UV1 moved to UV0 creates a large amount of extra mesh files and can become hard to manage.

In my project, adding layer masks, applying filter effects and adjusting the color levels are very frequent actions. Could we add custom shortcuts only within the layers?If it's customizable, please let me know. Thank you.

Current builds of Substance Painter 3D on Windows do not support handling paths longer than 260 characters (Windows MAX_PATH limit). Starting with Windows 10, version 1607, MAX_PATH limitation can be lifted. However, this is an opt-in behaviour applications must explicitly subscribe to. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation?tabs=registry#enable-long-paths-in-windows-10-version-1607-and-later Could future builds of Substance Painter 3D implement this new Windows feature, thus removing the limit on paths length? Thank you ⭐

My biggest gripe with Substance Painter is not being able to isolate and view what an individual layer is doing. Once you have a lot of groups and layer stacks it becomes extremely combersome to toggle layers on and off. Could we utilize the drop down menu in the viewport that allows us to view individual maps and channels to give us not only a layer mask preview but the selected layer(s) as an option also? Better yet, just give us a node graph, please and thank you.

Would like to see the ability to adjust the UI scale while in app.  Substance painter UI scale in app.    I don't even use a 4K monitor and the text is so small.  This capability should be in all of Adobe apps.  I stopped using Subtance Painter for over a year because the UI is just too small even after scaling up windows.  I never had a problem with the UI of any Substance apps (Painter, and Designer) before Adobe aquired Substance.  Thank you!

We have multiple in-house tools that utilize the python API and automate portions of the texturing or setup process.  Being able to import splines generated from Maya into Painter to be used for path/ribbon tools would allow for a lot of powerful additions to our toolset. A simple example would be generating a spline from the intersection of metal pieces in Maya and then bringing it into Painter for automatic weld seams with the ribbon tool.

The Python API has always had the ability to load and save files, but no way to read write or use the Recent files.  Unless it is undocumented or somewhere else besides the substance_painter.project module. For now, someone needs to create their own UI or Recent File list if a pipeline tool is created for saving projects. Pythin API Function Request:- Ability to read the list of Recent Files.- Ability to add to or edit the list of Recent Files.- Saving or Loading either adds to the Recent Files,  or that the open/save/save_as functions offer a save to recents flag/option.This would make wrangling projects so much easier.Thanks again for the fantastic integration

When iterating textures, it becomes time-consuming to repeatedly export each texture set into its own directory. Currently, exports are limited to a single output directory per export, which means I need to re-export each texture set separately into its respective folder. This becomes a time sink for any project with multiple texture sets.It would significantly improve workflow efficiency if we could create multiple “General Export Parameters” templates, each with: its own output directory an assigned texture set After setting these up once, re-exporting could be done with a single click while automatically routing each texture set to its correct folder.This would streamline iteration-heavy pipelines where textures are frequently re-exported.If there are technical or compatibility reasons this hasn’t been implemented, I’d also appreciate insight or recommended alternatives.Thanks!

# you can leverage the Javascript API to easily export masks to files# but the code below ONLY works for scenes that are NOT using UDIMs# it would be nice if it just worked for scenes with UDIMs as well# there does not seem to be an easy way to do this through# the Python API export module unless I am missing somethingimport substance_painter as spimport posixpathdefault_export_path = sp.export.get_default_export_path()image_format = "png"current_stack = sp.textureset.get_active_stack()texture_set_name = current_stack.material().nameselected_layers = sp.layerstack.get_selected_nodes(current_stack)for layer in selected_layers:    layer_name = layer.get_name()    export_filename = f"{texture_set_name}_{layer_name}_mask.{image_format}"    export_path = posixpath.join(default_export_path, export_filename)    export_path_str = f'\"{export_path}\"'    mask = "mask"    data_path_str = f'[\"{texture_set_name}\", "", \"{layer_name}\", \"{mask}\"]'    javascript_code = "alg.mapexport.save("+data

Expose all of the highlighted functionality available through the UI to the Python API. 

Hi, hope you’re good 👍🏾I’d like to request an option to point at a specific After Effects installation for the Export > Send to After Effects command.Use case is that I have a bunch of different versions installed for older project/plugin compatibility reasons, plus I’m working in the AE Beta for testing most of the time. The current functionality seems to automatically send to the most recent release version, and it would be a big timesaver to be able to specify which version of AE to send to, especially as this command can generate just and GLB file without all the maps as well.I’d imagine the most straightforward place to put this would be in the config options for Send to AE - there could be a dropdown with all the recognised installations, and a checkbox to enable selecting a version manually.With all the good work that the AE team are doing with substance and 3D integration right now, having this flexibility would offer quite a big quality of life upgrade.Cheers!

The UDIM numbers are not useful for game engines, yet they are essential for painting and baking across multiple parts of the mesh in Substance Painter.   Instead of having to look up what part 1004 is, it would be nice if I could export it with the name I put on the tile within Substance Painter.

allow multi axis mirroring. I think it would be better in fact to just remove mirroring at all and have it as an effect, which gives better control and avoid having to repaint if your forgot to put the mirror on, or remove the mirrored side if you decide it is better but have to use some workaround as the mirror is destructivefor example texturing a sword, I may need to reflect details to the other side and back for the blade, which is impossible and I need to use a lengthy workaround such as using shared uv space and then baking or something else, which is not really ideal... would much appreciate an update like this..

When painting textures, there are situations where I need to add a new channel (for example, Opacity) at a later stage. Currently, when a new channel is added, it is automatically enabled for all previously used materials, even if I do not want those materials to use this channel. I would like to have control over how new channels are applied to existing materials. Specifically:An option to automatically enable the new channel for all existing materials, or Have the new channel disabled by default for existing materials and allow the user to manually enable it per material. This could be implemented as:A confirmation dialog when adding a new channel, or A project-level preference that defines the default behavior. This would prevent unintended changes to already finished textures and improve workflow flexibility.

Hey,the title say it all. I really miss the feature, that i can export outmaps on a unqiue size. As example, when i export a _ORM (Occluion, Roughness, Metallic) Map i don't need it in 4k. I maxium need it in 1k or 512. But i have always have size them down manually afterwards.Would be great to have a feature for this. Greets Spaehling

Might be an overly discussed topic but when will Adobe allow you to create a Render View Preset to bring the exact settings from one project to another so to get the exact type of render? This would be a helpful improvement.

Adding a layer merging function to the black and white mask will greatly improve efficiency.

There is an issue with the blur filter that has been around since the first version of Substance Painter, and I can't understand why it hasn't been addressed yet. The issue happens when you try to blur something close to a UV seam - which is often unavoidable. Example: Note: while there is a workaround involving the blur tool to mitigate these artifacts, it demands a considerable amount of effort. Moreover, it's easy to miss these artifacts if we do not meticulously inspect the entire model.  Is there any plan to resolve this issue permanently? I have observed numerous colleagues expressing frustration over this. Please give this matter the attention it deserves.   Thanks.

Automatic cage mesh is an amazing feature but I noticed there's always a few buggy quirks in the cage generation that unfortuantely make it unusable.But if we could export out the cage mesh, then we could just make small manual adjustments.Somewhat related, anyone know where the cage mesh is stored? Was hoping for a workaround for now.

I was wondering if its possible to get a 3D paint bucket tool in susbtance painter similar to photoshops paint bucket tool but in 3D that fills in the areas where you painted. I would find this extremely useful in my work since I have to manually paint reflective maps for products in susbtance painter and having a paint bucket tool would greatly increase my productivity.

I share my Substance Painter projects with others via cloud drives, and we keep the files alongside the mesh files (typically FBX) in the same folder, or in a neighboring subfolder. But reloading the mesh file after it's been changed often requires going the long way of Edit menu > Project Configuration. This is instead of simply hitting Ctrl + Shift + R to reload the file, because the last person who edited the file don't have the same absolute path to the mesh file. Could we have an option in project creation, and in Project Configuration to store a relative path in the project instead? Example absolute paths..."C:\Users\me\Nextcloud\Bridge House Materials\Mesh\BridgeHouse.fbx""C:\Users\them\Nextcloud\Bridge House Materials\Mesh\BridgeHouse.fbx""F:\Nextcloud\Bridge House Materials\Mesh\BridgeHouse.fbx" Relative path for all:..\Mesh\BridgeHouse.fbx

At the moment there are 7 color options for layers. Colors are useful for visually separating layers. It would be nice to have the option for users tp use a color wheel or equivalent to pick whatever color they want.

I bought a drawing tablet, only to find that I couldn’t pan the view, and rotating the view was also very inconvenient. I suggest modifying it to be like Blender—so that drawing tablet users can operate completely without a keyboard, mouse, or virtual keyboard. This would be really user-friendly.Efficiency has improved a lot.