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Hi thereAs you can see in image below, my curvature mask is being display with horizontal and diagonal direction, why? I want to add a darker shapes only on areas where the normals are pointing down ( is a palm tree ) ( i am a noob just starting with Painter ) Help Thanks 

Confirmed regression: Painter 12.0+ crashes on project init with RTX 4090A/B version test completed on identical system state:- 11.1.3 (Feb 2026): Stable — Adobe sample projects open and run correctly- 12.0.0 (Mar 2026): Crashes immediately on project initialization- 12.0.3 (May 2026): Crashes immediately- 12.1.2 (Aug 2026): Crashes immediatelyRegression boundary: The crash is introduced in the Painter 12.0 branch, not in later patches or external system changes.Crash signature:- Faulting module: nvoglv64.dll (NVIDIA driver 591.74; also reproduced on older driver versions)- Exception: 0xc0000409 (STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN)- Fault offset shifts with driver version, consistent with the crash occurring inside the NVIDIA driver but triggered by Painter's renderer/project initializationSystem: RTX 4090 24 GB, Windows 11, Adobe sample projects, default preferences, no custom libraries. HAGS at system default (enabled). Hardware and BIOS verified stable.Isolation done: DDU clean driver inst

Can a custom tool make an SP export without even launching it? So, it can behave like Houdini Engine or AS DCC, so you don't need to go back and forth. Export it from the plugin or the custom tool in the game engine or whatever engine, instead of having to run Substance Painter, right? I realized that there is “remote-control-with-scripting,” but I want to avoid launching Substance 

I'm trying to get my wings to mimic a bat wing, they have tons of SSS. I have SSS setup and it's working but it's very weak and need to be way stronger to be able to mimic the bat wing. How can I fix this?

Painter 12.1.1 adds a Hard surface option to the automatic unwrap settings. I'd like to use it when creating projects programmatically, but I can't find a way to reach it from the Python API (version 0.3.5).What I checked on a live 12.1.1 install:substance_painter.project.AutoUnwrapSettings still exposes the same 8 fields: recompute_seams, recompute_uv_islands, recompute_packing, margin_size, island_orientation, uv_tiles_settings, avoid_elongated_uv_islands, create_fewer_seams. AutoUnwrapUVIslandOrientation has exactly three members: RotateFreely, AlignWith3DMesh, KeepOriginal. The private _substance_painter.project.AutoUnwrapSettings has no extra field either, and _to_private_auto_unwarp_settings copies field by field, so nothing outside the public dataclass would reach project.create anyway. project_loading_options is empty, and the legacy alg.project JS API doesn't expose unwrap settings.Questions:Is the Hard surface mode reachable from a script in 12.1.1 by some route I've missed?

I have two issues with with my project, but I'm not sure if they're connected. When i import my model, I see an error in the log stating that part of the model has "faces in out of bounds UDIM indices [0, -1]". The part of the mesh with these problematic faces is named, but when I go back into Maya and check it, the faces on that mesh are not out of bounds at all. I'm trying to get ambient occulusion and curvature maps from substance painter to use in Mari, but when I do the bake with this same mesh, the result is completely messed up and I've never had this happen before, so I have no idea what's going on. Are the out-of-bounds faces causing this baking issue? Or is it something else? I've attached screenshots of the error message, the uv faces referenced, and the botched bake result: 

I try to set few Display parameters :Environment Opacity Environment Exposure (EV) Environment Blur Environment Rotation Environment AlignmentI want to do that in Python by can not find a way to do that.Thanks in advance!  

ID Mask viewed in PhotopeaID Mask Viewed in Substance Painter Result of using a mask with that wrapping ID mask in Photopea to show where the green is wrapping fromResult of using the ID mask, showing a second material causing a seamExtra example in substance to show the wrapping despite ID mask being clean when viewed in Photopea. (There will be black wrapping onto the red section too)Simple reproduction:Use an edge-to-edge 0–1 UV island. Bake contrasting ID colours at opposite edges. Export the ID map. The exported image is pixel-perfect and contains no bleeding. Inside Painter, use Color Selection. The colour from the opposite edge bleeds into the generated mask.Re-importing the exported ID map as a regular texture and viewing it inside Painter displays the same wrapping/filtering at the edges.Maybe I am missing a setting or using this incorrectly, but the behaviour seems odd. I spent several hours trying different bake, padding and viewport settings before eventually exporting the

Hi. im trying to bake normal maps from my work and got some error log.In the project the mesh has 3 texture set lists. 2 of them use only one tile. but the other one has UDIM with 2 tiles.Mesh maps of all of them have been done sucessfully, i also checked Log '[StacksExporter] Map export ended' text to make sure. And during work, i didn't meet any problem. But when i tried to export final normal maps today, two mesh texture sets with no UDIM got it success, but the mesh texture with UDIM keeps failed and in the log i can only see two lines that is[MapExporter] Nothing could have been exported on the Cup stack:[MapExporter] The channel Normal is not available in the Cup stack.(Cup is a name of the texture set.) i did some tests. With the same mesh texture set,  i tried changing output directory and file type and nothing worked. And did exporting other maps like rough or diffuse, or height with exr format and they all ok with exporting. of course the border of UV tiles has

 I brought my materials into Blender from Substance 3D Painter and everything lines up pretty nicely, besides this one part under the keypad. I did a high-low baking. I know the imprint is thanks to baking through to the blue part, but in Substance Painter, this is hidden by the keypad so it’s not a big deal. Even though the UVs and the models are identical, for whatever reason the textures don’t line up the same. Re-exporting the mesh from Blender and re-importing the mesh into Substance has no effect within substance and it still looks normal.I’m not sure if this is related but the corners of the objects also don’t smoothly connect like they do in substance painter either. I don’t know if I’m missing a setting or if there was a problem with the export.Material view in Substance 3D PainterMaterial view in Blender 

This is a simple question, not sure if its been implemented in this manner as its been a while since I have used painter. But, what i wanted to know was, similar to marmoset toolbag has a bevel shader, will or does painter have the ability to “bake” in a beveled edge as if replicating a high poly bake from a higher poly model along edges. thoughts? I understand it has a bevel filter, but I don’t recall it doing anything in that capacity.

Hello, I’m trying to use a grunge map as the base color of my material, then run it through a gradient map to color it. I wanted to use an anchor point before the gradient, to create a roughness map that matches the grunge I’m using as my base color. This works, but the the anchor point roughness map comes out much darker than the base color grunge that it is derived from. What is the reason for this? Shouldn’t the anchor point just directly copy the greyscale map? I made sure that the anchor point is BEFORE my gradient and AFTER my levels. Base color from grunge mapRoughness from grunge map anchor pointThanks for your help, On a side note, is this the best method to do this? I can’t find much about working like this online.

Hello! I can’t find dynamic stroke menu in my brush settings. As an example I selected Dirt 1 brush. I remember it was present in the Alpha section of the brush settings. I am using Substance Painter 12.1.0   

Hi, I was wondering, is it possible to mirror a layer after it's been painted? I have accidentally painted several layers on one side of my model without mirroring turned on, and now wish to flip those strokes over to the other side also. Is there any way to do this? I've tried adding a Mirror Filter to each layer, but it doesn't work and acts strangely, almost as if it's expecting my UVs to be perfectly symmetrical as well, which they're not, as the model was packed arbitrarily; i.e the UVs are the same on both sides, but not laid out symmetrically. Appreciate any thoughts on this. Thanks,Seán

I have finally saved up enough money to purchase a perpetual license for Adobe Substance Painter but because we are halfway through the year i want to wait for 2027 to buy it to get more updates out of my purchase. Will 2027 follow the same model? Thanks

Hello everyone,  I looked online and seem not to find a answer to my question. Is it possible to make a displacement/Height map from your normal map on SP? Heres a example; you purchase a premade high rez basemesh that includes texture and normals but would like to use the high frequency details from the normals in zbrush but zbrush does not use normals maps. So now you need to convert the normals map into Height/displacement maps and how would you go about doing so in SP? I hope to hear from your soon and thank you in advance. 

How come the Curvature generator, using a seamless curvature map (out of Marmoset), creates visible UV Seams with no way of fixing this? 

 I want to use the Zbrush to Painter bridge plugin but the Substance 3D painter plugin folder is blank. I have updated all apps and maxon on my end but the folder is still always blank and the Zbrush send to painter button just opens Painter and does nothing. What do I need to do to get the bridge plugin working from Zbrush to Substance painter?

Hi,I textured the model, which I created with 3 different material IDs and a single UV map, in the substance painter program. When exporting, I want to combine these texture sets into a single UV map. Substance painter creates 3 separate texture files even though 3 different texture sets are included in the same uv map. Isn't it possible to create the texture of this object in a single texture set? Having 3 different textures causes the file size of the project to increase, I want to avoid this.thank you!    

This is the First time I am exporting textures but after i export it ive been having this right here For some reason i cant find the problem i added opacity channel on the the texture set settings and nothing is working is i check to see if there is something wrong with the input but i dont know what im looking for here is the configuration i tried to use the opacity one but it still doesnt work Tf2 paint i use 

Hello, I’m new to Substance Painter and I wanna use this color texture for the base of this mesh. Is there a way to randomize it and make it seem organic?  

i want to learn adobe but none of get in free, most are paid and if free, there quality of video or teaching is not good, basically for beginners, so i want to find best course that i learn advance adobe uses. 

When attempting to use Dropper Color Picker to select a color on my screen or on my scene on Ubuntu26.04 LTS with Wayland Compositor and KDE Plasma 6 Desktop color dropper tool bugs out creating a black layer on the entire screen breaking functionality of the tool. I do not have X11 support outside of XWayland and am unable to utilize an X11 session to work in substance due to both my Distro Version and Desktop Enviornment. 

Right now a  common workflow  of mine is to create a masked fill layer to display a certain visual like let’s say green slime across the entire suit of a ghostbuster.Once I set up the layer properties I define my mask by using generators, paint, and most importantly fills, because I can reposition or scale them later.In order to add a fill effect to my mask I drag it from the shelf onto the model, so I get a good starting point for the position. At the moment the only way I understand how to do this is to drag an alpha to the model, choose “Mask” from the pop up menu. This creates a new layer with the mask I actually want to be a part of the mask I was currently working on. So I need to scroll to the top of the layer stack, select the new mask, copy the effect, delete the new layer, scroll back down, select the mask I was working on and paste the effect.This procedure is most painful the first time around after which I will usually duplicate existing mask effects as a starting point.Bu

I'm wondering if there's a way to automatically reload textures?Our pipeline uses Marmoset Toolbag for baking and Substance Painter for painting.While Toolbag automatically updates and reloads everything you overwrite externally (which is really more helpful than you can give it credit for) unfortunately Painter does not.So after rebaking the textures I'll have to manually find all of them in the textures shelf and select "reload texture". Then, after repeating this for all 5 or so textures I'll still have to re assign them to their dedicated slots (as in: the AO map goes to the AO slot, the curvature map goes to the curvature slot... etc)Or I can open the ressource updater, hit "update all" and close it again.This workflow feels very cumbersome, not what I expected from a modern software like this. Am I missing something?