We put them in the material folder of the shelf - you can add subfolders to organise your stuff. We use separate shelves for different teams or projects. I can't say it's ever caused a problem
Curious, what's the general concept of that script? When you submit a material made in designer it duplicates a copy into the Painter folder? What if you make an edit to the original? Do you run the script again to update the duplicated material?
It's possible, look I've done it here; It then sets up the shelf folder within that. Fantastic! but... Substance Painter can't seem to find the .sbs files in here? I've tried putting a specific TAG in the Substance Designer and put that into the Painter searchbar in the shelf but no luck.
I would have the substance designer and substance painter shelves within the same directory so that you do not have to do that. When you designate a substance painter shelf it will create the folders that is uses to search for resources and categorize them. Most of those should already exist if your Designer directory…
Painter can't use sbs files, it needs cooked sbsar files. And no, you can't add individual folders to the shelf, it's hard coded. You can add as many shelves as you like though. Painter uses the shelf structure to add the required type data to its resources. You would be ill advised to bugger around with it
It generates an sbsar and puts it in the shelf folder. You'll need S.A.T / Batchtools. it's run manually cos not everything we do for designer wants to be in the painter shelf currently it's impossible to automate resource updates in painter files without doing some wizardry i've only head rumour of. for now we're forced…