Substance 3D Painter

May Substance Painter Shader Part can get the original Shadow map but not only the precomputed shadow? The precomputed hard shadow map is hard to developer custom effect,plz.

I'm trying the free month for substance painter. I really like the program, however... what is driving me insane is a pop up message that lets me know I'm on a trial version every time I open the program, or if I go away and come back, it will pop up again, or seemingly every hour or so, I get this pop up, or perhaps now, it will pop up now, or maybe after my computer goes to sleep. I'm on day 4 of my trial. Don't you think it's just a little overkill, considering I clicked this button when I installed the program? Do you really think I need or want to add redundancy to my workflow? Please, turn it down to once when installed. Ver: 8.2.0

It's now possible to copy (copy mask) and paste (paste into mask). It would be great if, in addition, masks also be linked or instanced so that changing one mask would change the other instances.Similarly, it would be great to be able to do this with any paint or fill layer. For example, making an instance of a paint layer affecting the color and plugging this into the bump with a desaturate filter above it. This would reflect the way programs like Maya work where a bitmap image  can be connected into any channel (bump, color, etc.)  Ultimately in order for a user to manage these connections it would be nice to have a nodal graph view similar to Nuke or Mari or Maya, rather than the layer stack system of Photoshop.

Yep just that, would be nice to be able to hotkey 'Delete'. I like to keep my hand on the left side of the keyboard and move any keys that are "too far" so that I have easy and quick access to all actions. Kind of like a videogame - just for efficiancy, ease and speed.

Normally, when texturing a model, such as a character, you would have to import multiple versions of the same model in order to texture hard-to-reach areas.So, for example, the main model would have eyes open and a version with the eyes closed so that you could texture the eyelids. So here's my suggestion: If Substance Painter could have a feature where you could import all the versions of the model at the same time but be able to switch between them as you work depending on what you need to work on without the tedious back and forth of importing and updating textures. This could also work for;Vehicles, where we need to work on exploded models to texture individual parts and bake an AO map before returning to the assembled version for full texturing.High Poly and Low Polys. The possibility to see your textures update in realtime across different versions of the same model would greatly speed up the production pipeline and make for a more efficient workflow with

 This may be possible somehow and I have not seen it, but I want to project from all sides but control the depth. I'm using the warp projection to achieve this and the "depth" to get the look, but it's tedious to set up, the cylinder projection would be perfect if it had a depth slider so I can control the volume of the mask.Example below 

Hi, would you mind moving up the copy/paste/gamma mask options so they're together? Thanks.  

I'm writing this due to running into this issue constantly when baking assets at a high resolution and constantly having to use external applications such as marmoset toolbag then importing the baked maps into painter, I'd like to have these in painter to stop the headache of having to use external applications, especially when painters baker is rugged enough to get the results to the quality bar needed. The three issues are: Bake skewingWhen baking all maps because of the way painter interpolates the average/non average cage you end up with skewing all over the mesh when projecting details or baking holesCurrent solution: marmosetProposed solution: ability to paint skew map on mesh Cage adjustmentRay distance is a non visual feedback loop, you adjust them bake, then adjust then bake and there's no way to adjust cage distances for individual objects.Current solution: marmosetProposed solution: visual cage distances with ability to adjust individual objects AO occlus

I think that would be great to have a paint bucket tool like as photoshop.Can be very helpful for postprocessing the base color of a photogrammetry workflow and other baked maps.

It would be extremely useful to me to not rely on brush strokes to transfer work from one mesh to another in some cases. I work a lot on character meshes, with the same topology and the same UVs. I would like to keep my shaders between different shapes of the same mesh. But everything that's painted (painted masks and layers) will transfer in worldspace if they were painted on the mesh. So if I textured a short character mesh and wanted to transfer the smart material to a tall character with the same UVs, I have to redo all the painted masks and layers every time. Which basically means redoing a huge chunk of the work unless I paint the tall guy's textures on the short guy, which is artistically restrictive. I'd really love an option when selecting a paint layer "Convert strokes to texture" which exports the selected painted layer or mask to a specific resolution and plugs that texture back into the layer using a fill. That way I can keep using the material on other characters wit

Could it be possible to export textures mesh to 3MF in order to print it on Full color 3D Printer like Stratasys or Mimaki?could it also be possible to handle Displacement maps in metrics in order to get physical value for the height of the relief? thanks

Backuping the hotkeys / shortcuts in any software is a basic step to not turn insane every time in the year you reinstal the program (new PC, update, whatever reason.)But I've scanned the whole web, no one seems to know how do this basic step. Substance stores it apparently in the Registry ??..??? why would we open the registry on a daily basis to backup our shortcuts everytime we tweak them ?... And once we open the registry, it's absoluely opaque how to extract the shortcuts from the substance folder key thingy, and after a while when you absolutely need to restore these shortcuts.. how do you that in the registry ?.. I don't get how people can use Substance painter if there's no way to simple backup shortcuts.. do they just accept to go insane every few months when all their workspace get's deleted and they realise they cannot work until they get it back ?....Thanks for any help, with years of photoshop and 3dCoat I suffer from preference-loss related PTSD.

Why not provide a C++ API to access the kernel?

Hello I am on a project and I have a problem of scale that I cannot solve.When I export my file in fbx format with unit 1: 1 cm, and I then apply a texture via substance painter, the texture is huge (x1000) and if I reduce it, it is unreadable.I changed the scale units under Cinema 4D, the object, under substance, nothing helps the result is always the same. You can see the original file c4d and result texture in substanceCould someone give me a solution please. Thank you in advance.

It would be very helpful if a user (especially in a production environment) could not only designate what resolution each "TextureSet" that gets exported at. But Where to... I often find myself having to toggle off & on many TextureSets because of the export limitation to just 1 (one) designated output directory. When I require to specify multiple output directories when textures are living in different folders due to production settings. It would be a BIG help if I could tell each TextureSet where to go in advance, save settings. So when I press export, the setup has to be done, only once. As opposed to be done, over and over again. Especially when variants are a factor. Would this be a feasible feature to add into a near future release of painter given this is "Adding" onto something that already exists? Possibly as a quick drive-by task? Fingers crossed! Thanks!

I think there should be a more streamlined method for adjusting only one Layer/Effect below, exactly like Alt+Left Clicking between layers in Photoshop. There is a workaround to make a separate layer, adjusting it there and then referencing an anchor point back to the original layer. But this is a bit excessive to just adjust only a Layer/Effect below.

It's ridiculous that autosave still kicks in right in the middle of a texture export. Please disable this. Some texture exports can take several minutes and are obviously CPU intensive. The last thing that's needed is the program doing an autosave right in the middle of this, with all the associated potential for a complete crash, or even worse a file corruption.

I'd love to see feature that allows for the editing of more than one mask at the same time. In particular, when doing lookdev work it's common to test out materials on various surfaces. Often I find I am adding and removing objects and faces from a mask while doing this. Since it's generally a best practice to NOT have one material covering another on the same surface, I usually want to make sure that any area of a material that is not going to be visible in final maps masked out. It would therefore be super helpful to have the ability to automatically subtract from one mask by adding to another, or vice versa. This would be especially helpful when using the face and mesh fill tools.

Surely there MUST be a way in Painter to pause screen redraw? If there isn't, this is a much needed feature that should be implemented ASAP. When dealing with heavy models with multiple UDIMs at 4k or higher, I'm having to wait for a slow redraw with every tiny change I make. Often I know I want to make several changes before I need to see the result, and the absence of any ability to prevent Painter from redrawing after every change just results in constant waiting and wasted time. I have 256Gb of system RAM and a GTX 3080 with 10Gb VRAM, so this isn't a system problem.

Might be the most helpful tool by far. Just add the pen tool in the 2D view only.

I use Substance Painter and Photoshop almost everyday, but each software is linked to a different account. A company e-mail and my personal one. I know I can logout and login to a different one when switching apps, but the case is that I always need to use both at the same time.Please allow us to login to two different accounts at the same time, since Adobe bought Substance Painter I can't work efficiently anymore, because I have to waste time switching accounts whenever I need to change apps, that's dumb. Or another solution, if your devs can't allow two accounts at the same time: once you open a software, make it usable until you close it, whether you logged off the original account or not. Just do something for your clients.

It seems really weird that paint and fill layers currently share exactly the same display icon in the layers palette. These are fundamentally different types of layers, so they need to have clearly identifiable different icons so that artists can see at a glance what type of layer it is. Currently, SFAIK, the ONLY way to tell the difference is to click on the layer and look to see whether or not the the paint tools are disabled. Really?

Please give us a way to disable the wireframe that is automatically overlaid on the model when using mesh fill. This frequently completely obscures which surfaces have been selected.

Give that the texture export process is probably THE MOST IMPORTANT THING that Painter does and is the ultimate point of the software's entire existence, would it be too much to ask that we get some sort of confirmation that textures have been successfully output and the process is completed? It's ridiculous that there isn't one. Likewise, a more obvious update on saving a project than the TINY "project saving" barely visible in the bottom right of the UI would be nice. Projects can quickly get into massive file sizes so saving takes a long time. These types of things make busy artists' lives a lot more pleasant. Thank you.

1. Add options for different resolutions for specific textures.2. Allow for custom sufix/prefix withouth having to create new output template. Our game engine uses additional maps to run sheen/sss ect. We have set up the custom user channels to paint these maps.However, to save memory, we dont need these maps exported out at the same resolution as the base maps.It would be nice to be able to specify a different export resolution per texture the same way you can specify a file type and bit depth.  Also having options of 1/2, 1/4 or Double the texture set size as well as specific resolutions might help too.Being able to add a prefix or sufix without having to make a new output template or changing the material name or manually changing the file name would be helpful when making variations.  If we exported our textures but also wanted a clean version without the dirt for example we could just add a simple _clean prefix without having to search through an extensive list of o