Questions

Having Baking Issues I'm still learning Substance Painter and I'm not sure what is going on. I am experiancing triangles and splintering around some of my edges. The Zapper was done in ZBrush with booleans. The low res mesh with vertex color and UV layout is done in Maya. I did my best to separate the shells at the hard surface edges. From Maya I then export the Zapper, Trigger and Scope into a single fbx file. I then do the same with the HD Boolean mesh from Maya as well.  In painter, I bring the low res fbx mesh into the scene to start. In my bake settings (see below) I include the HD mesh fbx file. The results are undesierable. Help me understand how and why this is happening and how I can fix it. For the baking, I started with default settings and then adjusted to what you can see in the image. ALSO! Does Marmoset do a better job? Am I expected paint out these artifacts in Photoshop? Images below: Baking Error: [Scene 3D] [FBX] : Mesh normals are

Hi I've noticed a recent change in links given in this forum, and from the in app links, for documentation on Substance 3D apps.   As an example there is a link in the sticky post on the new painter version for documentation, for which I get a message stating the location does not match mine (which is correct as I am UK based).     However clicking on the link does not now take me to a UK version of the same page, as it used to, but instead to a generic help page. Entering searches, on that page, for Substance Painter documentation turns up nothing useful.The same applies if I click on the documentation link within the application. Can this be fixed so that, if we are redirected to use a regional page it contains the relevant information.   Thanks   Dave

Hello, I ll would like to know if it s possible after made a copy instance layer to remove (unlink this instance).For example I v a layer (yellow) I ll duplicate in instance to have the same colour everywhere.But at a moment if I ll decide in a texture set to change the color (but not the source).How can I ll unlink it to change the color in this specific texture set.Thanks by advance for your help.Best regards. 

I am working on a feathered creature and I wanted to do the feathers in substance. I found a feather material and applied it. However, the feathers dont curve along the body in the exact way i want them to. Part of this is because of the UV layout, but changing the UV's would make them worse overall.So I would like to take the texture and warp parts of it, just like puppet warp, or bending in photoshop or similar programs. Is there a way to achieve this ? Or might there be another smart way to get things to curve ?Thanks in advance.

I would like to offer the Substance Painter file for download along with my bus model to provide more flexibility. I purchased and downloaded some materials using Steam credits in the past. Am I allowed to offer such a file? This would allow the buyer to modify the bus more quickly. https://skfb.ly/ooQHs

I created some decals for my model, the texture should have the exact same aspect ratio as the model,how do I scale the decal projection so that it exactly matches the height of the model?Found dozens of tutorials on organic placement, but have no idea how to do precise placement.

Hello,I wanted to know if it was possible to select a single map from a import/or from a already imported UDIM sequence? For example, on a human model I use 4 tiles (head, body, Lhand, Rhand) when I import the textures of the model, they load automaticaly as an UDIM sequence.So when I want to use only one map of that sequence on any tile it's impossible.I would like to do a symmetry between the two hand, by using the map from the Rhand to the Lhand by changing the map scale to -1. But as soon as I go in UV projection mode to acces the scale parameter,  it shows my map 1001 (the head) on all of my tiles. I can't seem to select the tile 1003. 😕😕And I would like to avoid duplicating and renaming my files for this.Any hints on this issue?Thanks!

Substance Painter V 7.4.1Attached is screenshot of partial 3D/2D view (IrfanView modesty windows there for posting).How can I get that single UV based texture (2D right side) out of Substance? OK I know I can export all the maps and merge but with what? PS? It won't look like that AFAIK.  I've bought and tried Texture Set Combiner by 3rd party dev (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/DgBDo) but I get stuck like so many at #BEGIN MERGE: and then nothing further happens. I am assuming if it did work it would generate what I wanted .. a png texture identical to that shown in Subtance 2D view. Guess I could carefully size the UV texture to 1024x1024 and do a screen clip but .. seems like this is a basic function the program should already have. Any solutions here? Help links or whatever .. TIA

 i dont know why but my texture are over laping when i bake them even tho none are in blenderanyone got a fix?

As you can in the attached screenshot, no matter what material I use it looks green. It looks normal in iray renderer but green in viewport. The material I was using should look red. please help me fix this. what am I doing wrong? I have attached a log file and screenshot.To demonstrate the problem I used a simple cube exported from maya, this problem is in all the new projects but not in the older ones.

Hey I accidentally deleted all my baking settings in the baking log, anyone know how to restore it? Oskar

did Substance Painter support mac m2

hello, I just reopened to do some work and notice in the Material section of the asset shelf there are a ton of things gone from before. For example, there used to be a bunch of skin materials now I only see one. How do I get this back? Here's what I see. I'm in 9.0 btw.

I have a custom assets folder that includes all the typical things (alphas, templates, materials, colorluts, etc). Is there a way to distribute this to people without them having to manually add the library path in the settings? I could've sworn I've done this before successfully by placing the asset folder in a folder called "shelves" at the one of the SUBSTANCE_PAINTER_PLUGINS_PATH locations, but that doesn't seem to work anymore. I also have a startup script if it's possible to load it through python, I just don't see anything in the API that mentions it.

Hello, Is there a way to invoke my python plugin using a keyboard shortcut/key? Currently, the only way I know is by invoking it through a menu widget.

Hi everyone. Could you help me please? As in title.I had an idea to create simple material with disolve, blur and blends. It  works by slider in Designer and also in Painter but I have no idea how to export it to Painter to make it work as opacity value (by brush opacity 0- red then blend to green 0.1 to 0,5 value and blend to blue 0.59- 1.0 ) .  In short words. I would like to make a material where color will change depends by brush opacity in Painter.  Is it possible? I guess my idea was completely wrong? Maybe there is any simplier way to do what I would like to.  Thanks for any help.  🙂

Hi, I'm a bit lost with this one so I was wondering if someone could help me to figure this out. I'm trying to export my textures from SP and I want to use the dilation+default background color at export. All the regular maps seems to have the expected color, for example, metalness is black, but with color map it is giving me a pale grey and I have no idea where to change that, the documentation it's quite poor about that, it only says "default color of the Texture Set's channel"Hope someone can help me. Thanks!

Hi, I'm trying to bake textures from a high poly garment onto a low-poly one. Unfortunately, it is producting all sorts of artifacts--places that look too dark or light or just distorted. I noticed that almost all of this is happening on garment folds. However, my last picture shows a fairly flat piece that has a triangular area that's brighter than the rest of the garment. Tried adjusting my settings in the bake, but that doesn't seem to fix it. I was just baking normal maps. There's no diffuse here or anything. Has anyone dealt with this before? 

Hello, I would like to share an issue I've been having. Whenever I bake my model I have been having weird artifacts with it's maps and I'm unsure as to what's causing it. I put this in discussion as I'm not sure if this is a bug or me just not understanding how the software works as I am relatively new to it. I would greatly appriciate some help. Here's the ID Map for an example as to what I'm dealing with: 

I have several masked layers that I need to overwrite the normal channel of the whole stack where their mask is white.  On my PC workstation this works fine by setting the normal channel (and usually height) of those layers to "normal" or "replace".  However, I just noticed on my M1 Max Macbook Pro it is not working as expected. It appears that it is ignoring all blending modes for the normal channel, possibly height as well.  

Every single (Adobe)program can access normal Windows shared folders which are on a file server or different PC, doesn't matter.Substance Painter can't. Well, it sees the 3D model or texture but can't load it. Since I don't think it's actually a feature I think it's a bug if people are not able to use assets located on a fileserver for example. I can't think of a single reason it's not possible since every other program can. I'm really happy how Substance Painter gets developed and really nice new features but being able to load/write files from a network share should have been possible from version one, way before Adobe took over the bunch.Really hope this get fixed, I don't think I'm the only one that likes to work on projects from a fileserver which gets decent backups instead of constantely moving folders to local folders since Substance Painter gets confused otherwise.Currenly using Windows 11 22H2 but this issue is a Substance Painter 'feature' only. More than happy to try a

What am I doing wrong, I can't see the texture / stencil I loaded in the tool "Projection" to Base Color? It's in the brush color icon, I can paint it on the model but I just see the grey plane in front of my model, not the texture to be applied what makes it very hard to predict which part I'll pain where.

HI , my GPU CARD is HD 4000 intel what the suitable version substance painter i download ?i heard  version is 2.6.2 is that truei need help to complete my project 

I have been using the UV Border Distance generator to create trim details on pieces of mesh, but am having some issues with larger meshes having these dots that seem to come from the generator. The random dots seem tied to texture resolution. If I export in 8k there's significantly more, if I lower to 2k most go away but a few remain. Display is at 4k currently. Does anyone know what causes this or how to fix it/prevent it?

Is there any issue ( or requirement when ) passing presets between PC and Mac versions of Painter?I'm trying to send colleagues my smart-material presets and the PC guys can drag and drop and they work fine, but the Mac guys ( running native rather than through Bootcamp) get an error. Not even a useful one that might suggest a solution. We've tried manually placing them in the correct your-asset smart-material folder and restarting and they're not recognised.We assumed presets would be platform agnostic so is there anything extra we need to be doing? Thanks