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?
We keep our designer and painter stuff separate - we use scripts to generate the painter data from our designer materials so it's easy to keep it up to date.
Using scripts the way poopipe does is awesome if its possible at your place capone. I do not know if it is or not, perhaps a look into it would bare fruit. Allowing more distinction between files is always great. It reduces human error and keeps things nice and tidy. As far as what you would like to change it to I see no…
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…