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BenjaminGodin
BenjaminGodin
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Mar 7, 2026 5:29 PM UTC
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Substance Painter student license to commercial work1

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?

Cyril Dellenbach
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Community Manager
Mar 10, 2026 3:26 PM UTC

As long as you have an official license, no problem. There’s nothing written in the texture file. As long as you now have a license, you can sell whatever you did as a student. You don’t even need to re-export it.

 

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Cyril Dellenbach
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Mar 10, 2026 3:26 PM UTC

As long as you have an official license, no problem. There’s nothing written in the texture file. As long as you now have a license, you can sell whatever you did as a student. You don’t even need to re-export it.

 

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