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evany90292982
evany90292982
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March 9, 2023
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Prevent Poly Fill from affecting faces hidden from the camera.

  • March 9, 2023
  • 4 replies
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Is there a way to prevent polyfill from filling random polygons on surfaces hidden from the camera by the surface I intend to paint on? 


If not, I'm afraid I won't be able to contain my increasingly violent intentions towards the Substance painter dev team. 

    Correct answer Cyril Dellenbach

    Hi Evany,

     

    I have a feeling you won't like this, but the Polygon Fill tool selects everything through the mesh, meaning also the polygons on the other side of your asset.

     

     

     

     

    So this should not be random to be fair, but I can get your frustration. To be honest, I would also love a feature to select only what the camera sees, so let me consider your message as a suggestion and bring it up to the team.

     

     

    Have a nice day.

     

    4 replies

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    metaphysicalwurb
    Participant
    February 6, 2025

    this is an example of a dumb feature, as i can think of a lot of intances where you would want my strokes to not affect the faces in the back, than instances in which i would. 

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    zzz_8478
    Participant
    December 2, 2024

    I'n on SP 2020, is it still not implemented? I'm a professional artist and wondering why this tool is not very usable (or do I something wrong) when it's painting on camera invisible polygons. Otherwise my daily workflow would be 5000% faster if there would be a button like the paint brush tools utilized. Then I don't need to buy a newer version of this software, if there is no magnificant change to this.  

      Janos Thanatos
      Janos Thanatos
      Participating Frequently
      July 2, 2023

      I feel exactly the same way. What an unbelievably infuriating tool! They really need to introduce a "select front facing only" option.

        Cyril Dellenbach
        Community Manager
        Cyril DellenbachCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
        Community Manager
        March 9, 2023

        Hi Evany,

         

        I have a feeling you won't like this, but the Polygon Fill tool selects everything through the mesh, meaning also the polygons on the other side of your asset.

         

         

         

         

        So this should not be random to be fair, but I can get your frustration. To be honest, I would also love a feature to select only what the camera sees, so let me consider your message as a suggestion and bring it up to the team.

         

         

        Have a nice day.

         

        Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | QA Support Artist | Adobe
          evany90292982
          evany90292982Author
          Known Participant
          March 9, 2023

          Ah oh well, thanks for replying still!

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