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Gusztav77
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May 16, 2022
Question

Stencil not working unless H+V tiling is on, and paints with an offset

  • May 16, 2022
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Guys, I'm surprised at myself that I am suddenly unable to use stencil. As a thousand times ago, I have a fill layer which I want to reveal only partially, so I add a black mask, a Paint layer under the mask, select a brush and a stencil, and try to paint on it with white color.

 

Nothing is painted unless I select H+V tiling (which I don't want, but it could be a trade-off). However, the painted area is not the one bordered by the stencil, but it's a little bit shifted to some directions. I've tried tri-planar and UV mode for the fill layer, as well as Tangent wrapping and planar (if I remember well the names of the paint layer's modes), with no change in the result.

 

I've recorded a short video. Can you spot what the basic thing am I miss or do wrong? (Substance Painter is up-to-date, and I fight with it on Windows 11.)

 

Thanks,

Gus

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Gusztav77
Gusztav77Author
Known Participant
May 18, 2022

A little update, I can paint with the stencil in Projection mode, but I'm pretty confident I didn't need to switch to it in the past for the stencil on a Paint layer under a mask to work.

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May 23, 2022

Same thing happens to me, normal stencil not projection correctly in the viewport, however it is projecting fine in the UV view and yes you are right you did not need to use projection tool to paint through. I will roll back some version to check it out when I knew it was working. 

 

If it is a bug hopefully will be fixed soon, also on win11 btw