Questions

I’ve been having an issue when baking my low poly mesh with my high poly mesh. I’m fairly certain its due to the software reading one part of the mesh as another, but i have no idea on how to resolve itImage described​​​​Issue shown while baking 

I added the roughness channel from this turtle skin material, on top of a aluminum material to add a pattern. It creates these outlines with spots in the center. How could I make it so the outlines in the metal have a different color? Could I also make a separate color for the grayish spot in the centers?   

Hi everyone,I'm new to SP and am trying to understand how texture placement works with the various Projection options.In Image 1:you can see how I assigned the different projection modes for each side of the model. And from a relatively far away, it doesn't look bad.But up close, in Image 2:the UV stitching lines are clearly visible.How can I fix this?Thanks! 

I have a problem where I put my texture into roblox studio so it can add it into my mesh but for some reason it gives me errors. Does anyone know how to fix it? plz help

I recently purchased the newly released Substance Painter 2026 on Steam. As the latest version, I expected it to support available downloadable resources.However, I noticed that a free resource pack (materials/assets) on Steam requires Substance Painter 2025 to be installed in order to use it.This raises a couple of questions:Is there a specific reason why this pack is not compatible with the 2026 version?Are there any plans to update it for 2026 or release an equivalent pack for the new version?It seems counterintuitive that the latest version cannot access content available to a previous one, so I’d appreciate any clarification on whether this is intentional or just not updated yet.

The 3D mesh file is in obj format. After drawing with a pen or brush, when sending it to Stager for display, it shows that the model cannot be imported. However, if you go to the project configuration, change the import settings, remove the retention of the brush positions on the mesh, and re-import the mesh, it can be imported normally again. The cost is that it will change the position of my pen path. Is this a bug?

Spoiler: Curve Shape slider does nothing related to sharpening a curve marked red on a screenshot.

I’ve been learning and using substance painter for portfolio work for the last 3 years now. I’ve now gotten to the point where I can potentially sell my assets (mesh+textures) to clients. Currently I have a student license which does not allow me to sell my assets commercially. I must upgrade to a commercial license to do so. Now my question is - Will re-exporting my textures from my existing projects (that were made with a student license) in substance painter with my new commercial license allow me to sell those textures commercially or do I need to alter them to make them legal?

Hello guys 🙂 I’m hitting this error in my Substance Painter Python exporter: ValueError: For exportList item #0, the preset "resource://starter_assets/glTF PBR Metal Roughness" is undefined I am using Everything (voidtools) to try and locate it, but I can’t find that preset on disk anywhere, I am assuming it is embedded. Do you guys know where it's coming from? Any other preset from the starter-assets folder work fine. How can I access the glTF ones?  Any help would be appreciated, thanks 🙂

Hi there! I have faced an issue with locating glTF PBR Metal Roughness export preset. I want to write  plugin using it so it would be helpful to know the ResourceID of this preset. Any piece of advice will be helpful. Thanks!

In Substance 3D Painter, when painting on the mask of a fill layer, the brush always displays "No Material". This happens with all brushes, and restarting the software doesn’t fix it. What’s the problem? This didn’t occur in older versions; it only started happening after I updated to the latest version 11.1.2.

Hi everyone!I created a simple, slightly conical circular band model in Blender (image 1). After UV unwrapping (image 2), I then exported the high- and low-poly models in FBX format.In Substance Painter, after baking, I get noticeable jagged edges on the model (image 3).For baking, I set the antialiasing to Supersampling 16x, and the output size on 4096x4096.After baking, there are jagged edges (image 3).Why does this happen and how can I fix them?Thanks so much!123 

Hi all,  I am getting the following error over the last couple of weeks and I have no idea what the issue is.  “Critical error can't build edition context. Invalid edition target”This pops up on different models and models that have worked with no issues before. I have updated to the latest edition but it hasn’t fixed the issue. The error pops up randomly when I am working on a model and I can pin point it to anything one thing that I am doing.  Any help would be amazing as this is preventing me from completing work. 

i am getting this error message [Resources List Model] Icons memory budget set to 1OOMB.[Plugin - resources-updater) No project open, resources updater discarded[Scene 3D] Unable to open file "(Scene 3D] Failed to load 3D scene.unable to open file 

im pretty sure its not a brush or alpha or whaterver... perhaps a smart mask? not sure. i have provided a screenshot of what im talking about below.  

Hey! Had to leave the PC for a bit. Saved the project, exited Substance and turned off the PC.Cameback and I can't open the project? Getting errors:[Scene 3D] Unable to open file "".[Scene 3D] Failed to load 3D scene.Unable to open file "".Please tell me there is something I can do to fix this. This is literally 20 hours of work wasted if it’s corrupt beyond fixing. I have no idea how this even happens?

I'm a verified student and i'm paying for Adobe Creative Cloud, i would like to have access to adobe 3D Painter as it's free for student, but when i try they ask me to pay. How do i get access to it for free, as a registered student ? 

I get this error.[EngineBitmapLoad] Failed to decode bitmap.resource://project2/Curvature JaggedCliffFace_02_2_m?version=bac74d3620f356d68c754f6932800eed964f8da0.imageI get it with each of the UDIM tiles except the first one which is named Curvature JaggedCliffFace_02_1_m that one comes in normally. I saved the material as a smart material from layering manually getting what i wanted, then saved as a smart material so I could apply it to each tile. Maybe its something to do with the First UDIM? I made it into a line. from left to right.Thoughts? Using 11.1.0 Build 4950 so far.Something to note, the 1st UDIm looks also different than the other Tiles. not sure what is happening here. like its not applying something to it.

Hello, my world space normals are completely off when baking. I have no idea what might be causing this issue. I am currently using Maya to model and UVExporting as FBX file Here is what it looks like. 

Hello I created a material with substance designer that uses flow maps to rotate the instance tiles. In theory it works, I tested it with downloaded flow maps like this And the tiles turn as expected but as soon as I try to paint the flow map in SP it doesn’t work.My setup is to have the material on top with the anchor to a paint layer below where I use the green normal brush to paint the flow map. using this as a normal inputAs described here https://helpx.adobe.com/substance-3d-painter/painting/advanced-channel-painting/flow-map-painting.html . Even though I am following the tutorial to the letter the material doesn’t react as expected and that I think is because the resulting flow map reads more like this Where the color ranges don’t match the flow map values.Why is that? What I am doing wrong? Could it be my material set up incorrectly? 

I am attempting to projection paint or tile procedurals in the height channel to use as displacement in my dcc. Coming from Mari, I am used to setting a base colour of 0.5, otherwise 50% grey. In Painter, I have configured my height channel to 32f, and loaded a tiling image that is already set to a 0.5 mid value. However, when viewing the height channel in isolation, everything is black and white, and similar on export. How can I appropriately configure my height channel and painting so that it is representative of a 0.5 mid value? 

I accidentally paint two diferents colors in the same layer in my texture painting, i need help to separate them, or at least remove one specific color from the layer,I would like some help; no tutorial or forum has helped me so far.

I just got the newest version of substance painter (9.1.1) and i'm having trouble with the screen recording option.I have a mac and it says that I have to allow substance painter access to the screen recording option. However, it just simply does not register. Which does not allow me to start the early baking process...I have restarted my computer, gave it access multime times, I have restarted the program multime times as well. But still the problem persists. Does anyone know how i could be able to fix this??

I’m trying to find the right workflow for my project. I have an ipad where theres several materials and im using vertex colors to add my materials but I just want one texture set. I’m working in Cinema4D. Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

Hi! I don't see anywhere which version is Substance Painter (checking latest, 11.0.2)  of pxr USD is using.Also, I'm unable to find any python modules, so I guess it is compiled without python support, probably because it doesn't seem to have use since usd scene manipulation would break a lot of things, but it would be handy to do queries inside our pipeline for example.