Hi, So let me answer some points regarding your video as I see some misunderstanding (not your fault to be honest, some things in Substance Painter are not always very clear unfortunately). Also some technical knowledge can be required to understand Substance Painter the best possible and get the maximum performances. -…
To extend the compression idea, there COULD maybe be something where I could right click layers and set them to "frozen" mode or something so Painter could optimize them in some way so painting below them would become faster? I dunno... As it is now, once I get beyond a handful of layers, working at 4096 is a no-go. Even…
Sounds like a bug then. I will look into it. Yeah I can understand. In the future we will offer some advanced settings for controlling the padding, this should help for merging the textures. Also Substance Designer would quite handy for this kind of process by the way (by working on full materials at once to perform some…