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  • Home
    1. Getting Started overview
    2. Activation and licenses
    3. System requirements
    4. Project creation
      1. Export overview
        1. Export window overview
        2. Export settings
        3. Output templates
        4. List of exports
        1. Export presets overview
          1. Predefined Presets
          2. USD PBR Metal Roughness Preset
          3. Default Presets
        3. Creating export presets
    6. Glossary
    7. Performance
      1. Assets overview
      2. Navigation
      3. Customizing the layout
      4. Filter by path
      5. Saved searches
      6. Advanced search queries
      7. Adding a new library
      8. Sub-library tab
    2. Substance 3D Assets
    3. Color picker
      1. Display settings overview
      2. Environment settings
      3. Camera settings
      4. Viewport settings
    5. History
      1. Layer stack overview
      2. Creating layers
      3. Managing layers
      4. Masking and effects
      5. Blending modes
      6. Layer instancing
      7. Geometry mask
      1. Main menu overview
      2. File menu
      3. Edit menu
      4. Mode menu
      5. Window menu
      6. Viewport menu
      7. Plugins menu
      8. Help menu
    8. Project configuration
    9. Properties
      1. Settings overview
      2. General preferences
      3. Shortcuts
      4. Libraries configuration
      1. Shader settings overview
      2. Updating a shader
      1. Texture Set overview
      2. Texture Set list
      3. Texture Set settings
      4. Texture Set reassignment
    13. Toolbars
      1. Viewport overview
      2. 2D view
      3. 3D view
      4. Camera management
      1. Sliders
      2. Log
      3. Update checker
    1. Painting overview
      1. Paint brush
      2. Eraser
      3. Projection
      4. Polygon fill
      5. Smudge tool
      6. Clone Tool
      7. Quick mask
      8. Path tool
    3. Straight line
    4. Lazy mouse
      1. Symmetry overview
      2. Mirror Symmetry
      1. Fill projections overview
      2. Fill (match per UV Tile)
      3. UV projection
      4. Tri-planar projection
      5. Planar projection
      6. Spherical projection
      7. Cylindrical projection
      8. Warp projection
      9. UV set to UV set projection
      1. Presets overview
      2. Creating and saving presets
        1. Creating particles overview
        2. Installing the particle editor
        3. Overview of the particle editor
        4. Creating a new particle script
        1. Photoshop brush presets overview
        2. Exporting Brush Presets from Photoshop
        3. Importing Photoshop Brush Presets
        4. Photoshop Brush Parameters Compatibility
      1. Dynamic strokes overview
      2. Enabling Dynamic Stroke feature
      3. Dynamic Stroke Performances
      4. Creating custom Dynamic Strokes
      1. Channel painting overview
      2. Ambient Occlusion
      3. Flow Map
      4. Height Map
      5. Normal Map
    10. Vector graphic (.svg & .ai)
    11. Text resource
    1. Effects overview
    2. Generator
    3. Paint
    4. Fill
    5. Levels
    6. Compare Mask
    7. Filter
    8. Anchor Point
    1. Baking overview
    2. How to bake mesh maps
    3. Baking visualization settings
      1. Creating custom effects overview
      2. Generic filter
      3. Channel specific filter
      4. Generators
      5. Mesh map
      6. Mesh based input
      7. User data
      1. Adding resources via drag and drop
      2. Adding resources via the import window
      3. Adding content on the hard drive
      4. Receiving assets from other Substance 3D applications
  • Features
    1. Automatic resource update
    2. Automatic UV Unwrapping
    3. Physical size
    4. Smart Materials and Masks
      1. Subsurface Scattering overview
      2. Enabling Subsurface in a Project
      3. Subsurface Parameters
      4. Subsurface Material Type
    6. Dynamic Material Layering
    7. UV Reprojection
      1. UV Tiles overview
      2. Image Sequence
      1. Color management overview
      2. Color management with Adobe ACE - ICC
      3. Color management with OpenColorIO
      1. Post Processing overview
      2. Color correction
      3. Depth of Field
      4. Glare
      5. Lens Distortion
      6. Tone Mapping
      7. Vignette
      8. Color Profile
      1. Iray Renderer overview
      2. Iray Settings
      3. Viewer and MDL Settings
      1. Plugins overview
      2. Autosave
      3. Resources Updater
    13. Sparse Virtual Textures
    14. Custom Shaders
    15. SpaceMouse® by 3Dconnexion
    16. Universal Scene Description (USD)
    17. Send to
      1. Performances guidelines overview
      2. Conflicts and background applications
      3. Mesh and UV setup
      4. GPU Drivers
      5. NVIDIA Drivers Settings
      6. GPU VRAM amount and bandwidth
      7. GPU VRAM and other applications
      8. Texture Sets amount
      9. Layer management
      10. Channels management
      11. Substance filters and materials
      12. Viewport display
    2. Configuring Pens and Tablets
    3. Exporting the log file
    4. Exporting a DXDiag
        1. Crash when working with overclocked GPU
        2. Forcing the external GPU on Mac OS
        3. GPU drivers compatibility
        4. GPU drivers crash with long computations (TDR crash)
        5. GPU has outdated drivers
        6. GPU is not recognized
        7. GPU is not recognized and is mentionned as GDI Generic
        8. Issues with Nvidia GPUs on recent Mac OS versions
        9. Multi/Bi-GPU
        10. Running on integrated GPU
        11. Painter doesn't start on the right GPU
        1. Application failed to start because of Qt
        2. Crash or freeze during startup
        3. Software conflicts
        1. Artifacts and glitches on Mac OS with Custom GPUs
        2. Blocky artifacts appear on textures in the viewport
        3. Mesh appears pink in the viewport
        4. Mesh flash to white when moving camera
        5. Some HDPI scaling values are not working
        1. Crash during export
        2. Crash when opening or saving a file
        3. Crash while baking
        4. Crash with low virtual memory
        5. Windows Blue Screens
        1. Corrupted texture error message
        2. Shelf resources are gone after 7.2 update
        3. Error there is no disk in the drive
        4. Error with missing api-ms-crt dll
        5. Impossible to drag and drop files into the shelf
        6. Impossible to use the ALT keyboard shortcut on Linux
        7. Assets (or shelf) previews are empty
        1. My exported opacity map is totally black
        2. Texture dilation or Padding
        1. Normal map looks incorrect when loaded in layer or tool properties
        2. Paint Tool bleeds on other UV islands
        1. A project has been processed as a text file and is now corrupted
        2. Loading files from a network
        3. Preserve brush strokes setting stays disabled
        4. Projects are really big
        1. Thumbnails in the shelf look incorrect
        2. Error when importing a Font
        1. Mesh faces disappear when looking at them from behind
        2. Viewports and textures are blurry or lack sharpness
        1. Substance Source plugin doesn't load
        1. Maintenance is expired dialog on startup
      1. Preferences and application data location
      2. Automated installation
      3. Retrieving the installation path
      1. Command lines
      2. Environment variables
      3. Firewall Configuration
      4. Querying Current Software Version
      5. Remote Desktop
      1. Shelf and Assets location
        1. Adding resource paths by editing preferences manually
        2. Editing resource paths manually
        3. Editing the Shelf Preferences with Python
      3. Adding saved searches manually
      4. Preferences and content migration
      5. Excluding resources in a resource path
      1. Creating a Javascript plugin
      2. Remote control with scripting
      1. Shader API overview
      2. Changelog - Shader API
        1. Lib Alpha - Shader API
        2. Lib Bayer - Shader API
        3. Lib Defines - Shader API
        4. Lib Emissive - Shader API
        5. Lib Env - Shader API
        6. Lib Normal - Shader API
        7. Lib PBR - Shader API
        8. Lib PBR Aniso - Shader API
        9. Lib Pom - Shader API
        10. Lib Random - Shader API
        11. Lib Sampler - Shader API
        12. Lib Sparse - Shader API
        13. Lib SSS - Shader API
        14. Lib Utils - Shader API
        15. Lib Vectors - Shader API
        1. All Custom Params - Shader API
        2. All Engine Params - Shader API
        3. All Rendering States Params - Shader API
        4. Layering Bind Materials - Shader API
        5. Layering Declare Stacks - Shader API
        1. PBR Material Layering - Shader API
        2. PBR Metal Rough - Shader API
        3. Pixelated - Shader API
        4. Surface Shader - Shader API
        5. Toon - Shader API
    1. Release notes overview
    2. All Changes
    3. Version 11.0
    4. Version 10.1
    5. Version 10.0
      1. Version 9.1
      2. Version 9.0
      3. Version 8.3
      4. Version 8.2
      5. Version 8.1
      6. Version 7.4
      7. Version 7.3
      8. Version 7.2
      9. Version 2021.1 (7.1.0)
      10. Version 2020.2 (6.2.0)
      11. Version 2020.1 (6.1.0)
      12. Version 2019.3
      13. Version 2019.2
      14. Version 2019.1
      15. Version 2018.3
      16. Version 2018.2
      17. Version 2018.1
      18. Version 2017.4
      19. Version 2017.3
      20. Version 2017.2
      21. Version 2017.1
      22. Version 2.6
      23. Version 2.5
      24. Version 2.4
      25. Version 2.3
      26. Version 2.2
    1. Substance 3D home
    2. Home
      1. Getting Started overview
      2. Activation and licenses
      3. System requirements
      4. Project creation
        1. Export overview
          1. Export window overview
          2. Export settings
          3. Output templates
          4. List of exports
          1. Export presets overview
            1. Predefined Presets
            2. USD PBR Metal Roughness Preset
            3. Default Presets
          3. Creating export presets
      6. Glossary
      7. Performance
        1. Assets overview
        2. Navigation
        3. Customizing the layout
        4. Filter by path
        5. Saved searches
        6. Advanced search queries
        7. Adding a new library
        8. Sub-library tab
      2. Substance 3D Assets
      3. Color picker
        1. Display settings overview
        2. Environment settings
        3. Camera settings
        4. Viewport settings
      5. History
        1. Layer stack overview
        2. Creating layers
        3. Managing layers
        4. Masking and effects
        5. Blending modes
        6. Layer instancing
        7. Geometry mask
        1. Main menu overview
        2. File menu
        3. Edit menu
        4. Mode menu
        5. Window menu
        6. Viewport menu
        7. Plugins menu
        8. Help menu
      8. Project configuration
      9. Properties
        1. Settings overview
        2. General preferences
        3. Shortcuts
        4. Libraries configuration
        1. Shader settings overview
        2. Updating a shader
        1. Texture Set overview
        2. Texture Set list
        3. Texture Set settings
        4. Texture Set reassignment
      13. Toolbars
        1. Viewport overview
        2. 2D view
        3. 3D view
        4. Camera management
        1. Sliders
        2. Log
        3. Update checker
      1. Painting overview
        1. Paint brush
        2. Eraser
        3. Projection
        4. Polygon fill
        5. Smudge tool
        6. Clone Tool
        7. Quick mask
        8. Path tool
      3. Straight line
      4. Lazy mouse
        1. Symmetry overview
        2. Mirror Symmetry
        1. Fill projections overview
        2. Fill (match per UV Tile)
        3. UV projection
        4. Tri-planar projection
        5. Planar projection
        6. Spherical projection
        7. Cylindrical projection
        8. Warp projection
        9. UV set to UV set projection
        1. Presets overview
        2. Creating and saving presets
          1. Creating particles overview
          2. Installing the particle editor
          3. Overview of the particle editor
          4. Creating a new particle script
          1. Photoshop brush presets overview
          2. Exporting Brush Presets from Photoshop
          3. Importing Photoshop Brush Presets
          4. Photoshop Brush Parameters Compatibility
        1. Dynamic strokes overview
        2. Enabling Dynamic Stroke feature
        3. Dynamic Stroke Performances
        4. Creating custom Dynamic Strokes
        1. Channel painting overview
        2. Ambient Occlusion
        3. Flow Map
        4. Height Map
        5. Normal Map
      10. Vector graphic (.svg & .ai)
      11. Text resource
      1. Effects overview
      2. Generator
      3. Paint
      4. Fill
      5. Levels
      6. Compare Mask
      7. Filter
      8. Anchor Point
      1. Baking overview
      2. How to bake mesh maps
      3. Baking visualization settings
        1. Creating custom effects overview
        2. Generic filter
        3. Channel specific filter
        4. Generators
        5. Mesh map
        6. Mesh based input
        7. User data
        1. Adding resources via drag and drop
        2. Adding resources via the import window
        3. Adding content on the hard drive
        4. Receiving assets from other Substance 3D applications
    9. Features
      1. Automatic resource update
      2. Automatic UV Unwrapping
      3. Physical size
      4. Smart Materials and Masks
        1. Subsurface Scattering overview
        2. Enabling Subsurface in a Project
        3. Subsurface Parameters
        4. Subsurface Material Type
      6. Dynamic Material Layering
      7. UV Reprojection
        1. UV Tiles overview
        2. Image Sequence
        1. Color management overview
        2. Color management with Adobe ACE - ICC
        3. Color management with OpenColorIO
        1. Post Processing overview
        2. Color correction
        3. Depth of Field
        4. Glare
        5. Lens Distortion
        6. Tone Mapping
        7. Vignette
        8. Color Profile
        1. Iray Renderer overview
        2. Iray Settings
        3. Viewer and MDL Settings
        1. Plugins overview
        2. Autosave
        3. Resources Updater
      13. Sparse Virtual Textures
      14. Custom Shaders
      15. SpaceMouse® by 3Dconnexion
      16. Universal Scene Description (USD)
      17. Send to
        1. Performances guidelines overview
        2. Conflicts and background applications
        3. Mesh and UV setup
        4. GPU Drivers
        5. NVIDIA Drivers Settings
        6. GPU VRAM amount and bandwidth
        7. GPU VRAM and other applications
        8. Texture Sets amount
        9. Layer management
        10. Channels management
        11. Substance filters and materials
        12. Viewport display
      2. Configuring Pens and Tablets
      3. Exporting the log file
      4. Exporting a DXDiag
          1. Crash when working with overclocked GPU
          2. Forcing the external GPU on Mac OS
          3. GPU drivers compatibility
          4. GPU drivers crash with long computations (TDR crash)
          5. GPU has outdated drivers
          6. GPU is not recognized
          7. GPU is not recognized and is mentionned as GDI Generic
          8. Issues with Nvidia GPUs on recent Mac OS versions
          9. Multi/Bi-GPU
          10. Running on integrated GPU
          11. Painter doesn't start on the right GPU
          1. Application failed to start because of Qt
          2. Crash or freeze during startup
          3. Software conflicts
          1. Artifacts and glitches on Mac OS with Custom GPUs
          2. Blocky artifacts appear on textures in the viewport
          3. Mesh appears pink in the viewport
          4. Mesh flash to white when moving camera
          5. Some HDPI scaling values are not working
          1. Crash during export
          2. Crash when opening or saving a file
          3. Crash while baking
          4. Crash with low virtual memory
          5. Windows Blue Screens
          1. Corrupted texture error message
          2. Shelf resources are gone after 7.2 update
          3. Error there is no disk in the drive
          4. Error with missing api-ms-crt dll
          5. Impossible to drag and drop files into the shelf
          6. Impossible to use the ALT keyboard shortcut on Linux
          7. Assets (or shelf) previews are empty
          1. My exported opacity map is totally black
          2. Texture dilation or Padding
          1. Normal map looks incorrect when loaded in layer or tool properties
          2. Paint Tool bleeds on other UV islands
          1. A project has been processed as a text file and is now corrupted
          2. Loading files from a network
          3. Preserve brush strokes setting stays disabled
          4. Projects are really big
          1. Thumbnails in the shelf look incorrect
          2. Error when importing a Font
          1. Mesh faces disappear when looking at them from behind
          2. Viewports and textures are blurry or lack sharpness
          1. Substance Source plugin doesn't load
          1. Maintenance is expired dialog on startup
        1. Preferences and application data location
        2. Automated installation
        3. Retrieving the installation path
        1. Command lines
        2. Environment variables
        3. Firewall Configuration
        4. Querying Current Software Version
        5. Remote Desktop
        1. Shelf and Assets location
          1. Adding resource paths by editing preferences manually
          2. Editing resource paths manually
          3. Editing the Shelf Preferences with Python
        3. Adding saved searches manually
        4. Preferences and content migration
        5. Excluding resources in a resource path
        1. Creating a Javascript plugin
        2. Remote control with scripting
        1. Shader API overview
        2. Changelog - Shader API
          1. Lib Alpha - Shader API
          2. Lib Bayer - Shader API
          3. Lib Defines - Shader API
          4. Lib Emissive - Shader API
          5. Lib Env - Shader API
          6. Lib Normal - Shader API
          7. Lib PBR - Shader API
          8. Lib PBR Aniso - Shader API
          9. Lib Pom - Shader API
          10. Lib Random - Shader API
          11. Lib Sampler - Shader API
          12. Lib Sparse - Shader API
          13. Lib SSS - Shader API
          14. Lib Utils - Shader API
          15. Lib Vectors - Shader API
          1. All Custom Params - Shader API
          2. All Engine Params - Shader API
          3. All Rendering States Params - Shader API
          4. Layering Bind Materials - Shader API
          5. Layering Declare Stacks - Shader API
          1. PBR Material Layering - Shader API
          2. PBR Metal Rough - Shader API
          3. Pixelated - Shader API
          4. Surface Shader - Shader API
          5. Toon - Shader API
      1. Release notes overview
      2. All Changes
      3. Version 11.0
      4. Version 10.1
      5. Version 10.0
        1. Version 9.1
        2. Version 9.0
        3. Version 8.3
        4. Version 8.2
        5. Version 8.1
        6. Version 7.4
        7. Version 7.3
        8. Version 7.2
        9. Version 2021.1 (7.1.0)
        10. Version 2020.2 (6.2.0)
        11. Version 2020.1 (6.1.0)
        12. Version 2019.3
        13. Version 2019.2
        14. Version 2019.1
        15. Version 2018.3
        16. Version 2018.2
        17. Version 2018.1
        18. Version 2017.4
        19. Version 2017.3
        20. Version 2017.2
        21. Version 2017.1
        22. Version 2.6
        23. Version 2.5
        24. Version 2.4
        25. Version 2.3
        26. Version 2.2

    Automatic resource update

    The automatic resource update, or auto-update, is a feature of the Assets window that allows to reload and updates resources when new versions are available. This process can be triggered automatically or manually in the interface, or via Python scripting.

    Tutorial

    You can watch a quick tutorial to get an overview of the feature:

    Enabling auto-update

    To enable the auto-update simply go to the bottom of the Assets window and click on the double arrows icon. This will open the auto-update menu with all its setting. Then enable one of the option available under the automatic updates section.

    Automatic updates

    The automatic update settings control how often the application should look for updates and where.

    Setting Description
    Assets panel

    If enabled, the auto-update will look for assets to update across all libraries currently loaded. This include the current project.

    However it won't update resources used in the layer stack, display settings, shader settings, etc.
    Resources used in project

    If enabled, the auto-update will look for assets to update that are currently imported and used by the current project.

    This applies to resources used in the layer stack, display settings, shader settings, etc.
    Update every x minutes Control how often the application look for an update of resources. A delay of 0 minutes will trigger an update every few seconds. Note that such a low delay can create performance issues.
    Note:

    If automatic updates are enabled, the application will automatically look for changes each time it regains focus.

    Manual updates

    The manual update actions are a convenient way to trigger the update system when desired. They can be used either with or without automatic update settings enabled.

    Setting Description
    Update assets panel Start the auto-update process. Behave the same way as the Assets panel setting (see above).
    Update resources used in project Start the auto-update process. Behave the same way as the Resources used in project (see above).

    Advanced settings

    The advanced settings allow to control the behavior of the update process.

    Setting Description
    Skip assets when their parameters mismatch

    If enabled, the auto-update process will avoid updating resources if the new version doesn't match the old version.

    For example if a Substance material has parameters that don't exist anymore in the new version (because they have been removed or renamed) the update process will ignore the resource and keep the old version instead.
    Note:

    To force the update of assets that have a mismatch, you can disable the Skip assets when their parameter mismatch setting.

    Update status and log

    After an update of resources happened (automatic or manual) the result of the process will appear inside the Assets tab in the Log window, reporting both successful updates and issues. In case of a resource mismatch (see above), the details of the issue we be provided per resource.

    The log can be quickly opened by clicking on the dedicated icon at the top right of the auto-update menu:

    Note:

    When one or more issues appear after an update, the log icon will display a little warning icon.

    Depending how the update process goes, several type of issues can appear:

    Issue Description
    Could not be updated in Assets panel This message means a problem prevented the update system to proceed. Expand the resource name to get more information.
    (filename).(format) doesn't exists. Can't reload (resource name)

    This message means the source file of a resource cannot be found anymore (either because it moved or has been removed).

    A simple fix is to reimport the resource or relocate it in the Assets window (via the right-click menu).

    Old project message

    When opening an old project, an option will be available inside the popup message warning to inform about the auto-update process. This is a convenient way to quickly disable the auto-update process in case it stayed enabled before opening the old project.

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