Feature Requests

Please add random seed for Instanced layers.It should be change all Random Seed parameters in instance layer. It will be useful when object has symmetrical parts with instanced material, but you don't need 100% exactly same material.

Hello Adobe Substance team,I’d like to suggest a new feature for Substance 3D Painter that would greatly enhance the workflow for artists: Viewport Click-to-Select Layer.The idea is to allow users to click directly on a visible area within the viewport, and Substance Painter would automatically select the corresponding layer in the layer stack. This would make it much faster and easier to identify and edit specific layers in complex projects, especially when dealing with multiple layers of detail or when layers have similar names.Key Benefits:Speed and Efficiency: This feature would reduce the time spent searching for layers in the layer stack, especially in projects with many layers or complex structures.Precision in Layer Management: By clicking on specific regions of the model in the viewport, we could quickly locate the layer responsible for that detail, making edits more intuitive.Improved User Experience: Many artists are familiar with viewport-based selection tools from other 3D

As decals (Warp projections) are Fill layers, they currently don’t support the symmetry feature. Adding symmetry to Fill layers would allow users to fully move/rotate/rescale a decal, and all changes would automatically influence the opposite side of the mesh.     This thread has been created in regards to a future QOL (Quality Of Life) release. We’re trying to prioritize users’ needs; therefore, your voice is very important! Please write your feedback below and don’t forget to vote for your favorite suggestions!All shared images are purely for visualization and not functional features.  

When I turn on paint symmetry, the plane is based on the center of the total geometry of my project. Suppose that I have several materials in my project. It is frequently the case that I want to symmetrize around a specific subset of geometry containing a single material. To do this in today's version od Sunstancec Painter, I need to turn on symmetry, set the axis, and then drag the offset sliders to (very) roughly get the plane to the center of the intended piece of subset geometry. I would like for a checkbox option in the symmetry settings to choose to center the plane on the active material's geometry, so that I can easily get in the middle without dragging sliders and eyeballing it.

Hello,A masking system would be AWESOME for Substance Painter, instead of having multiples materials where we need to plug everything, one materials, multiples mask. it would save so much time.  we have one shader for all and can use masks to create different layers under our mask group.Using this on Mari made me realize how easier the life is when we have only one shader.Thank's.

If I import a FBX with multiple meshes in it, there should be easy way to turn them on and off on a model. Not material id's, not selection sets, not geometry masks, no setting shader to opacity and painting over things you want to hide, none of this around-the-corner nonsense. There should be a tree showing FBX file contents (meshes) and checkboxes to turn them visible or invisible (which should also make brushes ignore them!). Why isn't this a thing??? Or if it is, where is it hidden on this bloated UI? It's evident that Painter already detects separated 3D elements, because you can fill by element. Just make a list of them!

I've been using Substance painter for years and very often I need to color pick from another layer's preview. Now that there's shaded balls previewing the layers, I'm unable to color pick cause I have the entire spectrum of a ball to pick from. The ball doesn't make sense, please just bring back the flat texture. Also seeing the mask preview was really great but I guess that never comes back.

I'm not sure if this is already a feature or not, but I am on Version 10.1.2 and can't find any posts related to this.I usually import multiple models into Substance Painter. I have a folder for each of these and have to select them 1 by 1 and a new folder destination. It's alright for the first time I do this, but when I want to come back in and edit it, I have to do that same tedious process all over again. I'm doing this every day all day in-and-out of substance painter, it becomes a drag and really slows me down.My suggestion is to add a + button on the output directory to create a new output directory and allow me to link a specific texture set to that output directory. This way i can simply edit the texture > Shift + E > Click Export > Done. If this or something similar is already a feature, please inform me on how I can achieve this, and if not, please add something similar to this. Thanks

Please add Hydra viewport support to connect 3d party renders inside Substance Painter such Arnold, Render Man etc. (like alredy done in Substance Designer)Render inside SP using production render would be great benefit.

Please add support of OpenPBR Surface

Can we have  have pixel snap  in Painter.   For example I have an asphalt texture and want to place  some decals  , dash painted line  or manhole.   Can we do it with pixel precision ?   To scale it to be say  exactly 400 pixels and scale around specifically placed center of transforms like in Photoshop  and  then say move exactly 20 pixels right or left ?       I can do it in Designer  with pixel processor  but never managed to make it work with sbsar imported  to Painter   and whatever I try to composite in Painter always get sort of extra blur due to lack of pixel snap.    It shouldn't be that much of a trouble really . Evry image editor  can do it .       Please Adobe, add this option.  

Please add mesh opensubdiv smoothing inside SP.  (and in USD mesh importing)

UDIM approach requires same sized  textures but  often we need just  slices from a big master image.     For example  I need to crop a thin narrow  32x2048 stripe  texture from 2kx2k master document.   An asphalt texture and  painted line  in the  center  .   Right now I had to export 2kx2k master material  and then cut manually 32x2048 painted line  from it .  Would be nice to do it directly in Painter

Wrap projection  scale option  does work always around this  gizmo placed in the center.    it's not really convenient for  a number of things.   For precise positioning   especially . Would be much easier if we can  put a center of transforms first  in 2d view and scale  around it.

Similar to the new warp tool in the 3d view it would be super effective to have a way to do that in the 2d view, similar to what photoshop does. I find myself switching over to photoshop to do this currently for clothing seams when I want things to ride along the edge of a uv island. I feel like the tools are already there they could just be added to the 2d view. I'm assuming its not that simple but really think this would be a very solid tool.  Ive tried doing this with the current warp filter but its just too hard to control and with a gradient and is very limited in functionality. 

Sometimes when I am working in hand painted texture, I wanted to go in details and work on few uv shell at the time, but I am still want these details to be in one layer, without necessarily split them into different layers using masks and geometry mask. A selection mode can be done as 2D software and selects uv shells that I want to restric, plus selecting geometry as geometry mask. This selection is a temporary restrictions for when going to details while people don't have to worry to paint over some strokes outside of the selected areas.

Does SP have this brush mode similar to PS?PS has this feature and so does mari.It's a pain in the ass to use projection in SP without this feature, because I want to overlay every stroke with lighten mode.Been waiting for this feature, otherwise projection drawing masks is quite a pain every time.The screenshot below is from PSHere is a comparison picture, the left side is the original picture, the middle is the way to draw mask with SP, the right picture is the effect of PS used the brush darken overlay mode.PS can realize the brush overlay mode, but SP can't, I hope that SP can have such a function, it's very practical.  

It would be much more useful if the geometry mask could be selected instead of the color mask when dragging the material onto the object by holding ctrl.

I suppose this may be in works already, but if not, it would be great to have an option to make the text go into a vertical stack.  Please see screenshot as an example: 

Currently you cant share brushe strokes as a smart material across different models that have the same UV space Unlesss you paint in the 2D view. It would be awesome to paint in 3D view but cement the stroke detail in UV space so when you change a model that has the the same UV layout the brush strokes dont move if the mesh position changes. The work around currenrtly is either painting in the 2D view, or painting in 3D and then exporting those strokes out of Substance and then back in to create a smart material. which is super annoying. I have worked in games for 15+ years as an artist and was shocked this isnt a feature considering how much re-use it would mean for texture painting. Possibly its a bug? 

I have a suggestion. When I use "ALT + right mouse button" to enter the mask drawing mode, the color picker can't absorb the gray scale of the mask. As a result, I can't draw the gray scale transition precisely, because when picking colors, it can only pick up the colors of the external materials instead of the gray scale shown by the mask.

Hello Adobe Substance Painter Team and Community,I'm writing to request a feature that would simplify workflows for many of us working on game assets. As someone who creates simple models for games, I often only need one single material with all texture details baked into a single map for my models. Right now, while Substance Painter does an amazing job generating multiple maps (e.g., Normal, Base Color, Roughness, etc.), there’s no straightforward way to export the flattened 2D view directly as it appears in the 2D Viewer.This is what I’m envisioning:The ability to export exactly what I see in the 2D Viewer: a flattened map that includes all materials, lighting, and effects—into one single texture.This feature would save so much time, as the current workaround involves taking the exported maps back into Blender, re-baking them under different lighting conditions that may not match Substance Painter’s perfect environment, or resorting to screenshots of the 2D Viewer, which is less than

Many offline renderers recommend that textures be converted to .tx format for optimized memory usage. Is there any possibility of directly exporting this file type from Substance applications? It would save the step of converting down the line and could help speed up workflows.  Thank you in advance for your help!

Why there is no toggle to turn on and off backface culling?I know i can change shader, but that`s a workaround and not a problem solver.In my current project i need to have backfaces (be able to turn on and off to check for errors) and opacity in the shader.At this point i can have either working opacity or backfaces. This is ridiculous!

I'm guessing handpainting features isn't at the top of Adobe's priorities for 3d Painter, but having an unlit shader w/ alpha-test and tranparency would be a simple but tremendously helpful option for handpainters. Currently, we have to use "Base Color" in viewport which means we can't see the opacity map which is very limiting.-- or if anyone out there can share a custom shader for unlit+alphatest or unlit+tranparency, would be appreciated!