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Participant
Oct 4, 2021 11:05 PM UTC
Question

Symmetry Settings not Working.

I've been following through on the Substance Painter 2021 Getting Started Tutorial - Part 03. The problem occurs when he introduces the viewer to radial symmetry. Whenever I try to hover or click on the symmetry settings, it briefly pops up then disappears. What is happening? How do I fix this?

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Participant
Oct 24, 2023 10:38 AM UTC

I am very sorry that my English is not very good The following was translated by DeepL
I'm on windows and the software version is 7.4.3.
After going through all the forums accidentally I solved the problem!

The first solution was to restart the software, which didn't really work for me.
The second is to turn off hardware acceleration (edit - settings - general - you'll see it at the bottom)
Or just use the GPU and not the CPU.
After six permutations and combinations that also failed.

Finally, I found my project archive and double-clicked on a random .spp file and it worked.
And switching to the project I was working on without closing the software was no problem.

It's a really stupid bug. I hope my three attempts work for you.

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Participant
Oct 24, 2023 7:19 PM UTC

Yeah, i've been having this problem today as well. Turning off hardware acceleration did fix it. However, im unsure if it's because it restarts the software or if it has to do anything with the hardware acceleration feature? Regardless turning that off fixed it. 

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Cyril Dellenbach
Community Manager
Community Manager
Oct 25, 2023 7:51 AM UTC

Hello @gage331425248nps,

 

Are you working with an AMD GPU? This could be the pattern we're looking for.

 

Let me know.

 

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Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | Product Manager | Substance Painter
Participant
Nov 21, 2022 3:11 AM UTC

Me too... plz fix this problem!!

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GeoffroySC
Community Manager
Community Manager
Nov 21, 2022 1:19 PM UTC

Hi, without more context on the issue (such as screenshots, logs, etc.)  I can't provide any support. 

Thank you,

Regards

Geoffroy SC

 

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Participant
Jan 7, 2023 11:17 AM UTC

The Setting UI panel is frozen. Can't access the settings

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Participant
Oct 15, 2022 2:29 AM UTC

Same issue on 8.2.0 build 1987 on an M1 Macbook Pro

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GeoffroySC
Community Manager
Community Manager
Oct 18, 2022 9:07 AM UTC

Hi,

Would you mind sharing screenshots of your issues? 

Could you also verify that you are on a paint layer and not on a fill layer? 

I have looked at every version of Painter from 7.4.3 on both Mac and Windows and I don't see the issue, would you mind sharing logs (Help>Export a log...) to see if your issue might be related to a specific config? 
Thank you,
Kind Regards,

Geoffroy SC

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Participant
Aug 31, 2022 1:42 AM UTC

Still having this same issue... 

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yingg91413545
Participant
Aug 8, 2022 12:02 PM UTC

Have the same symmetry setting problem. My operation system is mac os with Intel

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Participant
Jul 14, 2022 8:59 PM UTC

Hello,  

I'm encountering the symmetry tool setting panel greyed out and inaccessible on OSX with a M1 mac:

Substance 3D Painter, version 8.1.1
Build 1736 - cc21af9a095e8e113192710615ddad6d929df9fc

 

Is there a beta version to try with this working?

Thanks.

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Participant
Nov 7, 2022 1:47 AM UTC

I am working Windows 10 now and haven't experienced the issue or issue with the symmetry tool. Thanks. 

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Participant
Nov 14, 2021 10:51 AM UTC

Please fix this, and also stencils not working for me. 

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boldpixel
Participant
Nov 13, 2021 7:26 PM UTC

Same Issue I have on version 7.3.

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Participant
Oct 22, 2021 4:38 PM UTC

I had the same issue. Save your project and restart Substance painter and load your project again.It may solve this issue. And remember restart is always the quickest fix method. 😄

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Participant
Apr 14, 2025 3:26 PM UTC

This worked for me!

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Participant
Oct 7, 2021 2:06 PM UTC

same with me. symmetry options not active or greyed out.

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Participant
Oct 12, 2021 7:36 AM UTC

Same here. My version is 7.2.3 on Windows 10 Pro 20H2.

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