Substance painter - Quick color picking for handpainting

xiphos

Hello there,

I used to handpaint my models in 3D coat, but I want use SP for handpainting, which I really like. The only thing I don't like is that I always have to press with the pen/cursor on the color/mesh after pressing the hotkey for color picking.

Like in 3Dcoat or photoshop you can hover above a color and just hit the assigned hotkey to pick the color/material.

but in SP you only toggle the picker with the hotkey, instead of immediately picking the color.

This question sounds really weird and it's just one click more, but I color pick a lot when handpainting and this doubles the amount of clicks to paint.

It's not a big deal, but I'm curious if there is a setting which allows to immediately pick the color with only one hotkey, not needing to press on the color afterwards.

BakingSoda

Not a weird question at all!
I'm wondering the same. I don't understand why some workflows in Painter are just not optimized. These are really basics, and it's not like Adobe never met Photoshop. 

iam717

just by thought and not tested yet, put the colors on the map/texture/wireframes bakes beforehand and it should sort the issue, you probably figured that out-already? by time/date of post. a spectrum line on the map would be best to get through all the colors instead of having to rely on the one that makes things odd to work with/on. like this on the map maybe 4 pixels long or something