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Mar 19, 2022 3:00 AM UTC
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Need ability to export UDIM tile's name for game engine

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.

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Participating Frequently
Mar 19, 2025 3:04 PM UTC

Thank you! It works! 🙂

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Participating Frequently
Mar 13, 2025 9:00 PM UTC

Yeah I was able to get it to work but first you need to give the Tile a name. Select the UV tile in the Texture Set list and inside the Teture Set Settings there is a place to give a name.This is what Im using: $textureSet($uvTileName) which will use the Udim tile name as a suffix if it exists.

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Participating Frequently
Mar 13, 2025 8:22 PM UTC

Hey Cyril!

Do you know what to write when exporting using this new feature? I tried changing the name of the UV tile, but I don't know what to write when creating a new output template. I tried $UdimTile and other thing, but it does not seems to work. Checking the documentation and I cannot see any answer for that either 😕😕 Thank you! 🙂

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Cyril Dellenbach
Community Manager
Community Manager
Mar 11, 2025 12:44 PM UTC

Hello everyone,

 

I come with great news! With the 11.0 release, it's now official: UV Tiles' custom names can be used at export!

Thank you for your patience.

 

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Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | Product Manager | Substance Painter
Shisa82
Known Participant
Dec 13, 2024 1:00 AM UTC

Awesome!  Soon I can use one material in UDIM mode, and name the tiles for export (into separate "texture sets")

Thanks!

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Participating Frequently
Dec 9, 2024 4:16 PM UTC

OMYGOD! This is an early christmas gift! Thank you soo much for the update 🙂

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Cyril Dellenbach
Community Manager
Community Manager
Dec 9, 2024 12:33 PM UTC

Hi everyone,

 

I realized I never updated this post, so for your information we have officially started to work on this feature and it should land in a coming update.

 

Best regards,

 

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Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | Product Manager | Substance Painter
Participant
Nov 25, 2024 8:21 PM UTC

Still waiting on this one as well! 🙏

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Participant
Sep 24, 2024 9:30 AM UTC

我需要这个功能!!!!

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Participant
Feb 24, 2026 9:29 AM UTC

I've finally waited for you!

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Known Participant
Jul 29, 2024 4:10 PM UTC

This doesn't seem like it would be a hard feature to add.  Especially since there already exists naming a tile in the layer panel.  And there is already a naming convension system for the file export names.  

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