• drastically increase the number of shortcuts (eg wireframe and shadows toggle): virtually every single command should have a shortcut, also allowing every kind of combination of mouse/keyboard/gestures (as in Blender)
• numeric input should be aided by snapping to fixed increments and also to zero or otherwise default values (as in ZBrush)
• When I click in a numeric field with my stylus it should be cleared immediately so I could be able to type new values on the fly, without having to click&drag beforehand to select the present value in order to overwrite it. This issue does not happen when I click with my mouse so I do not understand if it is a problem with my graphic tablet (Huion Inspiroy H950P) or whatelse.
• insert support for simple parametric tools as bezier curves, rectangles and so on
• insert guides and snap options (relative to the mesh itself, similar to the red line used for simmetry plane visualization) to aid precise positioning
• I find the new UI more difficult to read. In the 1.7 version, for example, there were colored headers separating tabs in panels that accomodated lots of info (eg the properties panel, the baking window or the display settings window) and also there was a wiser use of fonts dimensions. Now is all too grey and too uniform
• please insert support for exporting textures to Blender Cycles and Evee
• I use only Painter and Source, so please give me the opportunity to tailor my subscription only for those, in my case leaving out Designer and Alchemist

In the Linux version of Substance Painter, mouse shortcuts can be changed, and they work until the session ends, but do not work in the next session.

After exiting the second session, all 19 mouse shortcuts in "~/.config/Allegorithmic/Substance Painter" are set to the value "@Invalid()" even if only one shortcut had been changed.

I suspect the routine that reads them in from the config file isn't parsing them properly. (This issue does not exist in the Windows version of Substance Painter, which keeps the settings in REG_BINARY registry values instead of parsing a text file.)

Recipe for reproduction:

1. Run Substance Painter (Linux version). Enter Settings. Set all shortcuts to their default values (to make sure it's starting from a known-good state), then modify a mouse shortcut (e.g. set Camera Translate to the Middle mouse button alone).

2. Verify that the new shortcut assignment works as intended.

3. Exit Substance Painter and look at the Shortcuts section of the config file. It will resemble:

[Shortcuts]
CAMERAROTATE=@Variant(\0\0\0\x7f\0\0\0\xeMouseShortcut\0\x2\0\0\0\0\0\0\x4\0\0\0\0)
CAMERATRANSLATE=@Variant(\0\0\0\x7f\0\0\0\xeMouseShortcut\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\x4\0\0\0\0)
CAMERAZOOM=@Variant(\0\0\0\x7f\0\0\0\xeMouseShortcut\0\b\0\0\0\0\0\0\x2\0\0\0\0)
CLONESETSOURCE=@Variant(\0\0\0\x7f\0\0\0\xeMouseShortcut\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\x1\0\0\0V)
CLOSEPROJECT=Ctrl+W
[...]

1. Run Substance Painter again. Attempt to use the remapped shortcut key; it doesn't work as intended.

2. Exit Substance Painter, and again look at the [Shortcuts] section of the config file. It now resembles:

[Shortcuts]
CAMERAROTATE=@Invalid()
CAMERATRANSLATE=@Invalid()
CAMERAZOOM=@Invalid()
CLONESETSOURCE=@Invalid()
CLOSEPROJECT=Ctrl+W
[...]

All 19 "@Variant([...])" values have been replaced by "@Invalid()".

Just wanted to say I love substance painter and it's helped me so much, there's just some things I really want to see pushed and improved upon in new updates.

Allow painting across multiple object UDIM's.
It would be amazing if you could set up a paint operation that would apply any effects across multiple UV tiles at the same time, say you had an object with 3 tiles, 1001, 1002 and 1003, but wanted a seamless texture painted across all 3, you could set it up to allow that, instead of choosing one then another then another, it currently leads to differences between each UDIM.

Allow a "change all texture resolution" to substance painter, it's very hard to work with when you have a lot of UDIMs and want everything changed to 1k for example.

Allow a "change all texture resolution" to the export, it's great to be able to control each UDIM tile to export at different resolutions, but if you want most tiles at 4k for example when they are set at 1k for you work scene, it can take a long time to change them all, having a function to set it to 4k then you can go through and change the individuals you want at different resolutions would be amazing.

Allowing you to choose specific UV tiles to bake in the "bake textures" operation, instead of either "everything" or the one you have selected.

Better support for linear workflow and aces colour profile.
Srgb is really not the best when trying to work in a VFX pipeline (this is a very important one for me)

Maybe a more stable 8k export, it sucks up all GPU and leads to crashes, I'm fine with a longer export time if it's more stable.

An option for displacement? I mean probably just under certain render options or something, I understand actual displacement in the work scene might be too intense.

Thanks!

Idea list

1. Like in Maya when editing a numerical value directly rather than by way of a slider the value remains highlighted after it's edited. Makes for a much faster way of experimenting with different values.

2. Ability to merge layers. I get that this makes it difficult to remain non destructive, but I would be ok with that if I had the option to merge layers. This reduces memory load as well as clutter.

3. Ability to bounce texture to project shelf. Rather than needing to export the texture and re-import.

4. Save Colors/Color Wheel. A color wheel would be awesome, but even more so would be the ability to save a slew of swatches inside a project or even a shelf

5. Color Spray

6. Selection marquee and lasso

7. Ability to transform and hide meshes

8. More mask by selection type options. Kind of like the polygroups options in Zmodeler to be able to create and edit object ID maps inside of painter.

9. Better lazy mouse. (IE to be able to see where the mouse tail is. The dark circle around the brush tip is horrible.

10. Better alpha in the viewport. The current alpha often is either all opaque or all transparent. Or only shows the object that has partial transparency behind the object it is in front of. IT would be nice if this worked better.

11. Increase the handling of high res models. Many times my models are too high to load in substance even though they aren't using very much of my computer resources. This means that I'm losing detail because I need to work from a normal map from ZBrush.

That's all I can think of now. Thanks!

There are so many things that make Substance Painter great, and still so many holes in technique that things like Photoshop have been doing forever. These are some problems.

1 ) Need to merge Texture Sets
2 ) Merge selected layers together
3 ) create a mask so you can isolate part of a model and not accidentally ruin another part (like in Zbrush)
4 ) isolate part of the model alone, so you can move around it, like again in Zbrush This is a strong feature because without it you can't do things like isolate part of an animal or object that is connected and not in a separate material.
5 ) As far as i can tell the clone brush is not working correctly.
6 ) Ability to work in separate materials, but merge down to one texture on export
7 ) Need a direct equivalent import into Maya that will actually look like what it does in Painter. As far as i can tell this is incredibly difficult.
8) Why when creating a stencil on something does it have to be square? Why is there no ability to non-uniform scale the texture overlay? Each texture i work on, I have to square up in photoshop. In fact so much prep work has to be done in Photoshop to do good actual painting, that It undermines Painter. My technique at the moment is to prep in Photoshop like mad for any serious painting that requires detail work. A good example is creating textures on animals that might have specific wrinkles.

I know I'm still somewhat new at Painter, but I think there is so much information out there about creating these materials and doing overlays that the basics are being completely overlooked.

I had started the indie subscription for 19.99 a month in hopes that i would gradually be able to buy each software one at a time. I cant afford it all at one time. 2 months ago i was about to pay for substance painter thinking i could use the funds in my subscription only to find out i cant made me very upset. It was the reason i started the subscription in the first place. This is very upsetting to me and i have to wait a hole year before i can even afford to pay for something i already payed for. Upset idk what to do.

As much as I like the speed of handling everything on the gpu, it is quite cumbersome or even next to impossible to export 8k maps from painter. Yes I know it is still experimental, but let|s face it, exporting 8k maps doesnt lend itself to be handeled on the gpu. I have a 4 GB card and exporting 8k is a hit and miss situation. If Highres export would be handeled on the cpu and system memory we could export even bigger maps. System ram is cheap. I have a 64GB machine and I don|t mind waiting a little longer for my 8k maps to export as long as I can be sure they export at all without crashing the grafics driver and then windows.