How to Import/Export From Designer to Painter?

[DarkChorus]

I've searched the forums both here and at Allgorithmic.com. I'm still stuck.
How do I export/import from Designer 5 to Painter 2? I have a nice .sbs file in Designer 5. I cannot get the programs to talk to each other.

One forum said that I needed to setup a pbr project to load from Designer. But there are different flavors of pbr in the Painter templates and I cannot get any variation of them to accept the .sbs file as a resource or other similar convention style. (pbr glossy, pbr non-glossy, non-pbr, standard, etc)

Is it possible to export image files or renders from Painter 2?
(Of course I will need to ask in the Designer 5 forum how would I export from Designer 5 to image files (diffuse, normal, specular, etc maps))

[僕の名前 (仮)]

It should be sbsar, not sbs.

[DarkChorus]

Designer saved the file as sbs. I will double check how I save in Designer and create and save a Painter project from scratch. There must be some way for them to communicate. I am so very new to the programs. Sorry for my clumsiness.

[僕の名前 (仮)]

You need right click on project package and then export as sbsar.

[MA-SIMON]

Painter crashes upon trying to import my sbsar files. Was a pain in the butt to get them to work in Unity. I did everything I could think of. (Absolute sizes, 8bit etc.) They work fine in Unity. Still crashes Painter.

Don't get me wrong, i love both programs for what they do. But the constant crashes and issues are grating me down.

[DarkChorus]

Thank you. I was able to export it (via the right click menu) as sbsar. Bitmap2Texture accepted it. Painter would not accept it. Painter wants a .toc or .spp format. I could not find any method of importing sbsar into Painter.

MA-Simon: I feel your pain. I have all of the programs but they do give plenty of unusual errors. Because the programs are not integrated into one application, I have to spread out my bug reports and my 'how do I do this' queries among all of the forums. Right now I have to go to the Bitmap2Texture forum to report a repeatable crash issue. The mysterious semi-transparent or pop-up overlay window bug I have in Painter was never addressed so I've given up asking for help on it. I have watched over 30 tutorial videos and found a few dozen more that I need to watch. That's not an exhaggeration. I'm doing my best before posting on the forums.