Updating .sbsar base material in Substance Painter

jStins

Apologies if this is covered somewhere that I haven't dug up in my google / forum searches. Is there an easy way to update a .sbsar base material so that changes made in Substance Designer propagate to fill layers in Painter? Right now I've been using 'export .sbsar as previous' in designer then re-importing in painter and running the Resources Updater. This works OK except it leaves the old sbsar in the shelf with no indication of which is the newest version. I've also encountered some instances where the resources updater wants me to replace the current base material with an old one. 

Thanks in advance for any guidance with this workflow. 

poopipe

Overwriting the sbsar file and reopening Painter rather than using import resource will replace existing items.  But yes,  it's a pain in the bum

jStins

Bah, that's too bad. More seamless integration between designer and painter would be a welcome addition for sure! Thanks for the workaround @poopipe. That will help in the short term.

Froyok

That's possible since 2.6 with Substance Painter and the Resources Updater.
https://support.allegorithmic.com/documentation/display/SPDOC/Resources+Updater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O4I-_p3REI

poopipe

Froyok.. The 2.6 updates are very useful but that's not what he meant.  

What we want to do is update items in our shelf with new versions from disk. Eg.  the same way you can reimport an asset in ue4.

jStins

Yup, that's exactly the behavior I'd like @poopipe. Thanks for the clarification! 

Froyok

Ha sorry for that.
Indeed it's a bit annoying to manage. We want to address this issue at one point but we don't have an ETA at the moment.