Updating texture resources in SPainter?

gnoop · Jun 19 2025

I do "reload" in library for each texture separately. then open updater window , hit refresh , then update all.

A huge pain in a... especially if you work with Designer and output materials as textures constantly . It's much more time-savy than using sbsars which never work properly .

I'm using Painter not that often . prefer other soft but it seems to me it was sort of less painful a while ago. Am I missing something?

poopipe · Jun 20 2025

there should be a resource updater plugin on one of the toolbars I think

poopipe · Jun 20 2025

also - if you're going to be iterating on a resource you can select where it's stored on import . i forget which one I usually used but one of them makes it easier to manage what you've imported

gnoop · Jun 22 2025

poopipe said:

there should be a resource updater plugin on one of the toolbars I think

Thanks poopipe but this "resource updater" doesn't work for me before you first find and right click "reload" each texture in texture library . "refresh" button in updater pane does nothing. Not sure if it's a bug or by design

poopipe · Jun 23 2025

i had the misfortune to need to do this today (on a 2 year old version tbf)

my approach for minimal rage is as follows

import the resource to the current session
for every change, do that again and use the new version of the resource (using the handy text field to give it unique tag)
remember why you make a point of not importing resources into painter
finish the tool, hand it over to art and don't touch painter again for a year.

why?
if you import to current session it will (should) discard any imported assets when you close painter - this saves you cleaning up all your iterations and means you avoid the misery attached to trying to reload the asset at all

Updating texture resources in SPainter?

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