Substance 3D Painter

Hello. I added some plate polygons to add some flair to the model. Then I added a color material to the plate polygons and baked it again. However, doing so caused the previously normal drawing to collapse.I checked it several times, and it was the exact same model except for the plate polygons, and there were no problems with the color material. Therefore, I consider this a bug. 

Hello!After updating Substance 3D Painter to version 11.1, I encountered a problem: the baker stopped working.What happens:When I try to start baking, the program completely freezes and becomes unresponsive. I have to force-close it through the Task Manager. The issue occurs every time, even in a new project.My system:Windows 11GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1080 TiGPU drivers are updated to the latest versionWhat I have already tried:Restarting the software and the PCCreating a new projectUnfortunately, the problem persists.Could you please advise what I can do to restore the baker's functionality? Are there any known conflicts or recommended settings?Thank you!

Stencil: after draging a alpha texture into the slot i try to draw on a paint layer that i created on a black mask. the preview of the texture works and i am able to scale rotate and move the alpha. but when i try to draw it on the mesh nothing happens. weirdly enough, when i draw on the UV/2D view it works. Its only broken in the 3D view. Projection tool: when i drag a texture into the stencil it does not show up in my paint buffer (the buffer just stays grey) so i dont see what i project but when i left click, it actually project the thing onto the mesh. So just the preview is broken. 

In Texture Bake mode, even if the model’s geometry is perfectly flat, if there are polygon edges or UV seams within that flat area, the curvature bake still produces white lines.Please let me know if there is a proper setting to avoid this or if it is a bug.If it is a bug, I would like it to be fixed.Thank you.

Hello there,My team works on building assets for a AAA project, and part of our pipeline involves baking AO at a max occluder distance of 200 for consistent AO results across buildings.As of Substance 11.1, we can no longer set the Max Occluder distance beyond 1. This is disrupting our workflow and requiring us to roll-back to a prior version. 

Not sure If I named the topic correctly, but think it will do..Getting ready to export textures for a model.Model is seperated in 5 individual IDed parts for painting individually.Each part has 1 or 2 custom use channels assigned to them (user0 and User1)When I am ready to export textures (UDIM / stacked textures per R+G+B / R+G+B+A), How do I make sure that each created User0 / 01 painted layer will goto the correct model part?Will SP automatically know that the User0 and User01 created in Model Part01 will goto it?and will do for each created User0 and User01 part? I hope I explained this correctly?Trying to not make this a TL/DR topic.If you need more information / details, I'll be happy to respond with the needed intel.

Unable to compute normals because some triangles were to small on high poly part I'm trying to bake my high poly from zbrush on to my low poly but these errors keep showing up and I'm not really sure why, some advice would be great. Never encountered them and my mesh from maya has no errors or ngons it seems.   

Hi I am using substance 3d painter to paint over my 3d model. I can only paint one object at a time (unable to load UDIMS) and the texture maps are not fully fitted into the box when i upload the export jpegs into blender model so the model doesnt come out great.   so two issues1. my uv maps arent fully fitted into the box2. I cant load UDIMS and paint across the 39objects that are attached together this is the model. I think its because the objects are touching and thats what happensI mainly want to paint and not dive deep into modelsI opened the model in opengl, directx not sure what the issue is. will include the model obj attached  

hi guys!I'm on a AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S, 3000 Mhz, 16 Core(s), 32 Logical Processor(s) wth 128gb of memory vram.I oticed that the Stylized filter at 4k makes Substance Painter freeze or the viewport will become unrespnsive (only the vieport, the menu are still working) . It only happens at 4k, at 2k the same filter works butter smooth.Usually, with 128gb of vram I'm able to use Painter without issue, it's actually very fast.Thank you!Max

  We’re psyched to announce that we’ve just released the latest version of Substance 3D Painter. Updates and additions for this release are very much focused on improving workflow and performance. Namely:   A new Ribbon Tool allowing you to paint complex repeating details, like stitches or zippers – or even text. This is even possible along curved surfaces and intricate geometry; you can now paint with patches that remain visually consistent without any stretching artifacts, or need to place elements manually.   Improved Symmetry controls for fills and effects, allowing you to apply symmetry directly to fill layers and effects in the layer stack.   Real-world displacement for digital twins and product design – Painter now includes Physical Displacement, which is particularly useful in fields such as product visualization and digital twin creation, where scale accuracy is vital.   Vulkan support and Baker API updates, for both Windows and Linux, providing smoot

yesterday everything was fine. today i cant make a project, access shortcuts, or edit and update old project. i cant access easy mode. i cant find core files, ive reinstalled the aplication 3 times with no fix. each new install has the same issue. im using the steam 2025 version. how do i fix this

Well basically is the doubt at the title, will substance 3d painter 2026 have a perpetual steam license?thank you.

※ Sorry if there are any parts that are not correct as I am using a translation tool.I am always lagging when I rotate or move by entering alt + LeftClick , RightClick , MiddleClick keys in the latest SubstancePainter. I have been suffering from this problem for the past 6 months.I thought it might be a problem with my computer, but it is not.Old PC i7-12700 rtx3070 mem64gbNew PC Core Ultra 7 265F rtx 5070 mem64gbPC at work similar to the above specs and the same phenomenon is happening on all computers.So I installed Substance Painter 2022 (8.3.1) which I bought on Steam and tested it, but there was no problem at all. (Attached video)I also installed 8.3.1 with AdobeCreativeCloud and had no problem.I do not know how to solve this problem. What should I do ...Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

I can't seem to find out how to export the stylized generator to a base color. Also is there a way to bake the environment lights into the same base color ?

Thanks to your reports, we've established a conflict between Discord's Game Overlay and Substance applications.We're currently looking for solutions, but in the meantime, if you're facing functionality issues with Designer/Painter buttons, please disable Discord's Overlay.   After tests on our end and some of your reports, it seems that a Windows 11 Security update ((KB5068861) (26100.7171)) can affect the behavior of Substance Painter’s buttons. Some are even not working at all. We’re currently investigating, but in the meantime you can roll back windows 11 to its previous update. Windows updates > Update History > Uninstall updates   We’ll keep you informed of any changes.  

Substance Painter steam 2025, Windows11

Hi there, I’m creating a custom tool in Substance 3D Designer to be used as a generator / fill layer in Substance 3D Painter, and I’d like to understand how this will behave in terms of memory usage under the hood. This question is primarily addressed to Substance 3D developers or anyone who knows how resource loading works internally. Use case:Inside a single Designer graph I plan to embed around 50 texture maps in 4K (about 25 MB each, so roughly 1 GB of embedded resources in the .sbsar).In Painter, the user will typically use this .sbsar only once per project, as a fill layer on top of the stack that generates base color + roughness + metallic.For one specific use, the user actually selects only two textures out of those 50 (through parameters / switches in the graph). So logically they need around 50 MB of data, while the remaining ~950 MB is just a “technical library” of textures stored inside the .sbsar. The core question:How does Substance 3D Painter handle such l

Hello In a few of my projects my model disappears when I try to render in iRay. I have checked over the settings and they are exactly the same as another similar project I have which renders fine. I've tried moving the camera out a bit, making sure alpha is not turned on and a few other changes but none make a difference, the model is literally invisible! Any suggestions on what might be causing this? Thanks

[Resources List Model] Icons memory budget set to 100MB. how do I change icon memory.

Baking Issue Video while baking my highpoly mesh onto lowpoly some parts of my lowpoly mesh doesnt bake properly. like you can see on the video guard and rainguard isnt fully baked for some reasons and they are "ripped".

  At Motion Plus Design in Paris on Saturday 8 November Mehdi Hadi premiered his short film MEMORIES, created in partnership with Adobe Substance 3D and Maxon. For more information on MEMORIES, including a behind-the-scenes look at Mehdi's creative process, take a look at Mehdi's article about the making of the film.   

So I am running into the following issue when I am trying to create some textures for a personal project:  This glitch is happening on all layers and all channels, and there is only one texture set I am working with.  I have tried closing out the project and restarting, and I have also tried to remake this project, with the same results