Painter Paladin

A Substance Painter plugin. Has a dockable window with some helpful tools. The main idea is to add tools that help with repetitive tasks.

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• Tested in Substance Painter 2024 10.1.2 (Steam Edition), Windows 11.

• Place root "painter-paladin" folder into Substance Painter Python plugin folder.

  • Find Python plugin folder by going to Python < Plugin Folder in the top menubar.
  • Ex. C:/Users/%username%/Documents/Adobe/Adobe Substance 3D Painter/python/plugins

• Option 1: Download "Painter Paladin" from github.com/natelollar/painter-paladin,

  • Unzip and drop entire painter-paladin-main folder into Substance Painter Python plugin folder.

• Option 2. Open up Windows command terminal in Substance Painter plugin folder location.

  • Enter: git clone https://github.com/natelollar/painter-paladin

• Open "Painter Paladin" by toggling the plugin on and off with Python < Painter Paladin.

  • This will open the plugins UI window if not already open.
  • Plugin name will appear as whatever the root folder is named (Ex. painter-paladin, painter-paladin-main).

• UI window position and on/off state should be generally remembered between SP sessions.

• ruff.toml is used with the Ruff linter and formatter.

• Included remote_utils folder for testing, though not required.

  • Helps send scripts remotley to SP via code editor.
  • Usually, though, restarting the plugin via Python < Plugin Folder was the simpler approach.

• Also, included remove_pycache.bat script, though not required.

  • Deletes (pycache) folders to help with testing.

Features

• Apply settings to more than one layer, group, or layer effect at a time.
• Plan is to add more features over time.
• Feel free to send feature requests.

Toolset Tab

• Quickly add passthrough layers for painting/ smudging fill layers.
• Enable disable fill layer channels.
• Quickly apply fill layer colors.
• Apply preset roughness or metallic settings.
• Apply opacity presets across all channels.
• Set mask and remove mask quickly.

Debug Tab

• View environment information.
• Toggle Log Window and Python Console.
• Access Python module and layer documentation.
• Test Code button.

Extra Tab

• Quickly add basic masks (noise, curvature, position, light).
• Apply additional preset color values to fill layers/ effects.