Not Able to Paint on my Custom Stencil

[Malevolent King]

Hello,

I created a custom stencil in photoshop, white for detail black for mask naturally, and when I applied it to my brush as a stencil in substance painter and start to paint it doesn't seem to paint anything on either the white or black areas. I tried stencils already in Substance and they work just fine, but using mine and trying to paint on mine it acts as if the entire thing is black or masked off and doesn't paint anything. I have this layer on the very top of the hierarchy to overshadow any masking I have going on, but still nothing. Could anyone assist me? I have a project I'm eager to get done with.

I read another thread that had this issue which told him to drag his stencil into the material slot, but did that too and I'm still unable to paint on it. It acts as if the stencil is just black.

Thank you very much for any assistance

[Malevolent King]

I figured it out. If you save a stencil from photoshop as grayscale mode, it doesn't work. You have to change it to RGB mode before saving it out. In case anyone else has this issue

[wesm]

Originally posted by Malevolent King:

I figured it out. If you save a stencil from photoshop as grayscale mode, it doesn't work. You have to change it to RGB mode before saving it out. In case anyone else has this issue

Thanks for reporting this workaround. I will check with the devs about the issue with grayscale.

cheers,

wes

[Malevolent King]

Your welcome, glad I could help... this means I can get a free version of Substance Painter right? :D