Feature Requests

All related to projection  painting  is super inconvenient in Painter.   The warp projection haven't changed a thing.  I believe nobody use it really.     Even in Blender it's way easier.   I can't even scale  that warp projection  precizely   because it does only from the image center  , not with  arbitrary center of transform i could  do in any image editor.   Messing with mesh deform is  quite inconvenient either . Would be so much easier to  save a camera /frame bring it to photoshop and  use puppet warp and photoshop transform gizmo  where you can set  center to scale and rotate around  at exact pixel you want .    I used same feature all the time when I used Mari .  it's so much more convenient . For example I have a building  facade photo  and want to scale a window to match  specific model  window .  

like it's in 3d max  uumap modifier.    So if I have a wall  I could fit projection to the wall  and then to bitmap dimetion  if necessary .     Right now I have to  manually  do it  and it's tremendously inconvenient .   Or let us chose another UV set  on object  please

I am new to substance designer but one of the things I've notice is is lack lateral integration with illustrator and photoshop. Specially the pen tool and masking features. I come from the 2D apparel graphic design world and trying to integrate 3D design into my work. I think it would be a great idea to either make the workflow from Pt to Ps and Ai easier or bring some of the power of those tools to Pt. I think the having a true pen tool like Ai and Ps would speed up my work faster in Pt. Also the having the ability to draw with pen tool on iv maps and seeing the updates in real time on the 3d viewport. Also if there was a way to texture the imported svg vector would be nice too. I've tried googling and YouTube to find the answers what I'm asking for and they don't directly exist. All of these apps should work hand and hand so much so that the workflow is seamless. 

There are probably methods around this problem, but I would love it if substance painter is able to have more granularity for rotation values when projecting masks.  Meaning. instead of 90 degree intervals, create a slider which the user can specify exactly the rotation degree they want.  I do like the pullout menu for convenience though, so I would not remove that.  I would even add 45 degree intervals which would help with the above issues.  The tiling and other parameters of course would have to work with these non-aligned to axis rotations. Thank you and keep up the good work, -Mike

I love the paint-along path tool, it's amazing, But I have one gripe. I have a library of paint tools that I would like to use on a path, but as far as I can tell, that isn't doable. Paint tool presets only apply to paint and path presets are separate,  so in order to use existing brushes I'd need to redefine all of their parameters again manually and set it up as a path preset, which means I'll have doubles of tools in my library, and there's no clear way to even differentiate between a path tool and a paint tool in the list.Seeing as how the only difference is two extra parameters in the path presets, I was wondering  - wouldn't it make sense to merge them so that presets can be used for both?If there's some underlying issue that makes this impossible, the next best thing would be a way to allow dragging a brush preset into the path tool panel to apply the brush settings, similar to how you can drag materials into the material mode slot.

When sharing projects with other artists, it can be useful to leave notes/comments on layers (or else). This feature would be especially useful for teams, but also for complex projects or tutorials.   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.  

Currently, the displacement’s value is a slider from -0.5 to 0.5.     We could change this current behavior for values like Substance Designer with a Physical size units.     Having similar values as other 3D apps will help having a more consistent visual between apps.   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.  

Details are still to be discussed, but we often need to have a similar parameter (tiling, rotation, etc.) between multiples fill layers. How convenient would it be to copy and paste a parameter?     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.  

Allowing artists to select multiple resources from the library. This would make it possible to drag & drop several assets at once in the layer stack, delete multiple resources, etc.   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.  

The title pretty much says it all. Having the ability to quickly display a single Layer without the rest of the layer stack.   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.  

A simple Asterisk next to the project name would indicate rather the project has been saved or not. This would be a simple reminder of the project’s situation. Not saved: Adobe Substance 3D Painter (Substance Edition) - JadeToad* Saved: Adobe Substance 3D Painter (Substance Edition) - JadeToad   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.  

Adding RGB values below the color picker when hovering a color.     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.  

Currently, there’s a choice of 7 colors to tag a Layer in Substance Painter.     With this QOL update, we would let artists make their own color instead of choosing between the current ones.   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.  

For instance  I have a texture  512x4096   and want to save  it 512x2048  .   I have to go to Designer  or  Affinity Photo for that .  Adobe ,please make  it possible to save in whatever size  I want and add pixel interpolation options .  Like Lanczos3 non separable in Affinity photo.   The best pixel  interpolation  so fat for textures IMO  where I don't need to put extra sharpen node  that adds its own artifacts .    

I am using the same model for many unique painter files that need to have their own unique texture names on export. Would like to have a $fileName flag for export so I don't have to manually manage them afterwards.  Unless something exists already, could not find it in my searches. 

Hi!Since Substance Painter came to 3d artists hands it has always been a desirable feature for every texture artist to have an ability of sending current work into Photoshop and get it back to Painter.Why? -Because Photoshop has its unique brushing ecosystem which has became native and habital for many handpainting texture artists. So I assume 3d artists don't expect a full layers stack interoperability between Photoshop and Painter because functionality are too different. But if we could send to Photoshop and pick back some specific basic color layers, as a projection or as flat layers method, it would be super helpful and game-changing!

Can you enable the paint across UDIMs to work with exporting to photoshop, it would mean a great deal for artists that will have to make a paint kit for their textures.Thank you so much

We are working on a heavily automated workflow with lots of assets of the same kind.Therefore we need a lot of tools and scripts to make it work.We would like to use the "Remove unused resource" function from the Python API.Please add it to the interface.

We are working on a heavily automated workflow with lots of assets of the same kind. Therefore we need a lot of tools and scripts to make it work. We would like to use the "Export Mesh" function from the Python API.Please add it to the interface.

I would like to see a search bar in the anchor selection drop down. Once a lot of anchors are populated, it can be time consuming to manually look for them.  Example image below.  

Would be nice to have temprary "disable all layer on top of currently selected one "  hotkey   . Something similar to outputting selected node   in Designer to see where things went wrong.

  Or otherwise add a few painting tools  to Designer.     IMO those anchors are nice  but  it's still a hell of a puzzle all the time.  I couldn't figure out a thing in my own  files.  They looks like indecipherable mess a week after.   No sense of flow , no compartmentalization,  height and normal inputs fighting each other ,   endless workarounds and tricks  for what should just be  2 or 3   parallel node flow easily accessible for masks whenever necessary.      All the same   as in Photoshop.   Every time I switch from Designer to Painter I am gasping of inconvenience. it takes hours to figure out why smart materials are not working  as expected for example .    SBSAR export is another puzzle  that eats your time like crazy.   Perhaps  Designer isn't a champion in  clearness  and simplisity&

I'd love to have the wireframe overlay tied to a shortcut. Keeping the display settings window open and having to frequently click on the checkbox is not ideal.   

It was my most loved feature in Mari  when I used it.     Wenh you can being MAri screen to photoshop  and then use puppet wrap to match something  precisely  and keep those projections saved .    The projection tools in  Painter are monstrously inconvenient .  Including that wrap one.  I believe nobody use it really . No way to match the projection  accuratly to specific features, no  way to save it  . It slips accidently easily.     Not that puppet wrap is a perfect tool but still so much  more easy to work with. My theory is  that   the reason  of certain  artificial  "procedural",   "hand made"  look  of things done in  Substance Painter  vs  Mari  is not  some super resolution but rather lack of  convenient tools to work with photo  sources.

So you could  make  2-3 brush strokes  on a canvas and just take pictures .   It looks so much more natural  and simple  than gazzilion of those procedural  things that never looks real  actually .      My guess it should be possible with pen input alredy  but it's so complicated  I wasted  a whole last weekend trying to do it.  .   Please make it a simple option for  regular brushes .  like  loading  3-4  1024 x 128  images   that would alternate  one after another  with smooth deformation  along the brush stroke.   I would  prefer such brush anytime  even if it could be a bit slow.  Basically a reason I switch to  Affinity designer  evry time I want to hand paint something in Painter .   Path tools are still inconvenient as hell  too IMO.  Lacking basic  vector  transform features. &nbsp