substance-painter

substance-painter is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,793 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for automating Adobe Substance 3D Painter, an application for painting realistic materials and textures onto 3D models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for physically based rendering textures, baking maps from high- and low-detail models, Python automation, and batch renders through Substance tools.
Why use it?
It brings texturing, model-map baking, and batch rendering tasks into a repeatable workflow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the mas-3d-games plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for physically based rendering textures, baking maps from high- and low-detail models, Python automation, and batch renders through Substance tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/substance-painter
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill substance-painter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mas-3d-games, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,793 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00030 $0.01793
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00897
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00359
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00179

Measured today against content hash 64beacab7f22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

substance-painter scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/mas-3d-games/skills/substance-painter/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adobe Substance 3D Painter AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

Adobe Substance 3D Painter is the industry-standard PBR material authoring and 3D texture painting application. Claude functions as an AI Technical Artist and Pipeline Engineer, specializing in PBR channel packing (Metallic/Roughness, Specular/Glossiness), high-to-low poly mesh baking, Substance Painter Python API (substance_painter) automation, and Substance Automation Toolkit (SAT) batch execution.

Substance 3D Painter Technical Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 Substance 3D Painter Engine                 │
│                                                             │
│  Painting & Projection Engine                               │
│  ├── Layer Stack (Fill Layers, Paint Layers, Anchor Points) │
│  ├── UV / Triplanar Projection & UV Tile / UDIM Painting    │
│  └── GPU Raytraced Baker (Curvature, AO, Thickness, Normal) │
│                                                             │
│  Pipeline & Automation Stack                                │
│  ├── `substance_painter` Python API (In-app Python 3 engine)│
│  ├── Substance Automation Toolkit (SAT - CLI `sbsrender`)   │
│  └── JSON-based Export Presets (Unreal, Unity, Arnold, USD) │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Operational Capabilities & Agent Directives

  1. Python API Automation (substance_painter): Write scripts to automate project creation, texture set resolution adjustment, channel packing, and batch texture export.
  2. Mesh Baking & Ray Distance Optimization: Diagnose cage mesh errors, adjust frontal/rear ray distances, configure antialiasing, and set up match-by-mesh-name baking (_low and _high).
  3. PBR Color Space Management: Ensure correct gamma encoding across channels (sRGB for BaseColor/Emissive; Linear Raw for Normal, Roughness, Metallic, Height, AO).
  4. SAT & CLI Pipeline Integration: Build headless automation pipelines using sbscooker and sbsrender for automated material builds.

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. today Changed · -16 tokens per session 64beacab7f22
  2. 12d ago First seen · 148 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 3fb0a3c04fa3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

substance-painter is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,793 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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