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May 13, 2025
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Issues with the New Pen Fill Tool in 11.0

  • May 13, 2025
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I purchased Substance Painter on Steam and have been using it regularly. I recently tried out the new Pen Fill tool introduced in version 11.0 — it’s a great feature, but I noticed there are very few adjustable parameters available at the moment.

 

I’d like to suggest adding more control options to the Pen Fill behavior, especially something like stroke spacing or density adjustments. This would help make the tool more usable across different texture resolutions. Currently, the default fill mode produces very visible jagged edges on low-resolution maps, making it hard to achieve clean results.

 

It would be really helpful if the Pen Fill could inherit some of the flexibility of the original Pen tool, while still supporting clean, resolution-independent fills for closed paths.

 

Thanks for your time, and I appreciate your continued work on the software.

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Cyril Dellenbach
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 13, 2025

Hi @Asagoo_Han8189,

 

Thank you for your feedback!

Could you also share a screenshot of the issue?

 

Let me know.

 

Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | QA Support Artist | Adobe
Participant
May 13, 2025

Yes, the black area was filled using the Pen Fill tool, but its edge hardness can’t really be controlled. (The example in the image might not be too extreme, but you can still see the jagged edges.) The cyan area was done using the standard pen tool with manual fill, which gives me full control over the edges. Since I’m working on stylized projects, this issue becomes pretty noticeable.