Substance 3D Painter

1.Open new project2. switch shader to pbr-material-layering or pbr-material-layering-10-mats3. assign all materials to any material that has distinct normal map(e.g. Stylized Wood Bark)4. Normal map is visibly blank/totally flat - buginterestingly enough, while no materials in the basic library work, some materials from substance 3d assets do work, this one for example :https://substance3d.adobe.com/assets/collections/1b1c286f3c9fd90f5aaca37388d9c7371c4d0753/asset/4186eaeaf99dc95f06c4cc2e164ce0fb5d3c3150 

The Steam perpetual version of Substance 3D Painter 2026 has significant lag and stuttering every few seconds. I saw patch notes claiming this has been fixed, but it has not been fixed on the Steam version it seems.Specs:OS: Windows 11GPU: NVidia RTX 5090CPU: Intel Core Ultra 9 285KRAM: 64GB DDR5Storage: 2TB+ NvMEThings I’ve Tried:ReinstalledClose Logitech lamp array servicesRestart PCForce Substance to use dedicated GPUAny way that Adobe could look into this issue would be great. It’s negatively impacting my ability to work.

If I press the Tab key, it’ll hide the UI like it should, but if I press it again, the program crashes. It happens in every 12. version, pls fix

Even if I change the autosave settings such as the 'autosave interval' and press save, the settings revert to the default when I restart the application.Please make the autosave settings remain as configured even after restarting.

Sub Surface Scattering isn’t rendering properly for me. I have tried almost everything from changing the shader to remaking the entire model Weirdly brightens up the model when I turn on SSSRenders fine without SSS. As you can see, it weirdly brightens up the model. It’s renders fine without SSS. I just can’t figure out how to render out the SSS. I have baked a thickness map and inverted that map for the SSS and it should render out without any problems. Any Help will Really be appreciated. 

Hello everyone,Thanks to your reports, we unfortunately confirm our latest release (12.1.3) has an encoding issue with Windows, resulting with random crashes.Hopefully, we’ve already localized the problem and are actively working on a solution that should be released fairly quickly.That said, if you can’t afford to wait for the bugfix, you can also rollback to a previous Painter version.Creative Cloud: 3 Dots next to Painter’s app / Other versionCCD rollback​Steam: RMB on the app / Properties / Game Versions & Betas We apologize for the inconvenience. Steam rollback We apologize for the inconvenience.

Environment: Substance 3D Painter 12.1.3, Windows 11 22631, RTX 5080 (NVIDIA 610.62 / 610.74 / 616.56 — identical on all three), Wacom Cintiq 22 as primary display, Windows Ink enabled per Adobe's pen guide. Reproduces since 12.1.0.Symptom: during a normal painting session the viewport stops updating permanently. Menus, panels and the layer stack keep working; Windows never flags the app as unresponsive. F, view toggles, resize, dock re-attach, minimize/restore do not recover it. Only a restart does.Conditions (several dozen occurrences over two months):- Only while using the pen. Never with the mouse — zero occurrences in mouse-only sessions.- Almost always during camera navigation (Alt+drag), not during strokes.- Often preceded by a sudden camera jump. Worse after Alt+Tab and back.Evidence collected on one instrumented occurrence (2026-09-07 20:10):- Minidumps (6 total): the "SAL Render Thread" is parked in std::condition_variable wait (ntdll!NtWaitForAlertByThreadId → RtlSleepCondit

As I was working on my character model, the default material sphere disappeared when I creating a black mask. I used the “Smudge” tool a few layers back to smooth out the redness of the lips. However, once I got out of it, it caused the default material sphere to disappear whenever I create a new fill under a black mask. Because of this, if I use the “Dirt” brushes as an alpha, it would have a squared border. However, if I choose one of the “Dirt” brushes from my Asset Library, it would appear normally without the squared border. To get back to the “No Material” issue, even if I use the “Paint” tool as some suggested to fix the issue, it will still immediately disappear when I choose a different option. If I reopen Substance Painter, everything will appear normally until I click on a different tool, which causes the grey sphere to disappear. I received this red error message in my log stating the following: [GenericMaterial] Shader API has been updated. Textures may briefly flash white

Is there a way to prevent polyfill from filling random polygons on surfaces hidden from the camera by the surface I intend to paint on? If not, I'm afraid I won't be able to contain my increasingly violent intentions towards the Substance painter dev team. 

Error example:[BakingProcess] Can’t create a resource from the baker result: tile (0,0): couldn’t find surface in resource world space normal *name of asset*When starting a new file, baking completes as expected without any error. But upon making shader application or UDIM lay out changes to the asset in Maya and re-importing the mesh, baking fails on all mesh map bakes.Error seems to be stemming from UDIMs changing texture sets/UV coordinates.Tests/Attempted Solutions:1) Not moving any UV’s, and only applying a different shader in Maya (Error)    • Seems to not matter if texture set stays enabled or gets disabled in Painter2) Not applying a different shader/texture set, and only moving a UV island to a new UDIM (Error)3) Making a new Painter scene and using the mesh with the changes (Bakes as expected)4) Tested with different assets, all give the error5) Tested with Substance Painter 11.0.3 (Bakes as expected)6) Instead of using “Re-import Mesh”, I tried going to Project Configuration

I want to set the Output Folder of File/Export Textures gui, via python API.Is there a way to do that, if yes how? Also the same question for Output templateIs there a way to set (select a template) it via python, if yes how? Also the same question for New Project/Project template.Is there a way to set (select a template) it via python, if yes how?   Thank You!

I’m unsure what is causing the issue. Before latest update to 12.1.0, I have not experienced any issues like this. I’m on win11 pro latest updates as of 2026/07/03. Painter is installed on a 2tb gen4 nvme (its my OS drive) and my work files are done on a gen5 samsung pro 9100 drive. Previously saving files was fairly quick, even files over 5gb in size. But now when I save I have to wait as it hangs for a while (1-1.5 minutes) before the save completes. This only happens on large files that is over 1gb in size. When I exit after working, then it also hangs a while before closing, or it just hangs indefinitely and I have to force close painter with task manager. I’m unsure if it is a windows issue, or gpu driver issue, or painter issue. My drivers are up to date. Latest Nvidia studio drivers (v.610.62) through nvidia app. Nvidia app overlays are disabled and no performance settings for apps are done through the nvidia app. System: r9 9950x3d, 64gb ddr5, Rtx 5070ti and above mentioned nvm

Hi,I’m getting strange black/white noise or dots in the Substance 3D Painter viewport, as shown in the screenshot. The same project looks normal on another computer.Could this be related to the GPU, driver, or viewport settings? What should I check or compare between the two computers?Painter version: Substance 3D Painter, version 12.1.3Build 5709GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XTOS: Windows 11 Version 25H2

Anyone know why this is happening, for some reason some uv island in a single mesh isnt getting mask when i try to mask the whole object but when i try masking comletely unrelated object that part is getting masked. i checked the uv, it isnt overlapping or anything and there is proper padding too. watch the video to clearly understand the issue 

On Linux, Substance 3D Painter 2025 has a regression in version 11.1.2 where the color picker modal window no longer appears.Versions 11.1.1 and 11.0.3 work correctly on the same system.Since Steam does not allow downgrading, could you please expose 11.1.1 as a beta branch so Linux users can continue working while the regression is investigated?This would be extremely helpful for production use.i have nvidia rtx 5090

I found a reproducible regression in glTF transparency export between Substance 3D Painter 10.1.2 (2024) and 12.1.2 (2026).I have already submitted this issue using Painter's built-in Bug Report function.Bug Report Reference: ADB-46817980-K2B5Environment Adobe Substance 3D Painter Steam Edition Windows Painter 10.1.2 (2024): works correctly Painter 12.1.2 (2026): issue occurs ProblemI created a very simple FBX containing only two polygon planes and tested the exact same FBX and textures in both Painter versions.For transparency, I used: Opacity channel pbr-metal-rough-with-alpha-blending shader Base Color textures Opacity textures Transparency is displayed correctly inside Painter in both versions.However, the glTF export result is different.Painter 10.1.2The exported glTF contains:"alphaMode": "BLEND"Transparency works correctly in external glTF viewers.Painter 12.1.2The exported glTF contains:"alphaMode": "OPAQUE"Transparency does not work in external glTF viewers.The exp

I'm waiting to purchase the Substance Painter Steam version of 2025. It'll be the end of January and still nowhere to be found. I don't want to buy the 2024 version which will no longer be updated. Will there be any discount for the 2025 version if there will be only 11 months or less of support instead of a year or will the update period cover 12 months from the release date?

Confirmed regression: Painter 12.0+ crashes on project init with RTX 4090A/B version test completed on identical system state:- 11.1.3 (Feb 2026): Stable — Adobe sample projects open and run correctly- 12.0.0 (Mar 2026): Crashes immediately on project initialization- 12.0.3 (May 2026): Crashes immediately- 12.1.2 (Aug 2026): Crashes immediatelyRegression boundary: The crash is introduced in the Painter 12.0 branch, not in later patches or external system changes.Crash signature:- Faulting module: nvoglv64.dll (NVIDIA driver 591.74; also reproduced on older driver versions)- Exception: 0xc0000409 (STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN)- Fault offset shifts with driver version, consistent with the crash occurring inside the NVIDIA driver but triggered by Painter's renderer/project initializationSystem: RTX 4090 24 GB, Windows 11, Adobe sample projects, default preferences, no custom libraries. HAGS at system default (enabled). Hardware and BIOS verified stable.Isolation done: DDU clean driver inst