{"id":227549,"date":"2025-11-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalproduction.com\/?p=227549"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:09:05","slug":"ribbon-rules-substance-painter-11-1-goes-vulkan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalproduction.com\/2025\/11\/20\/ribbon-rules-substance-painter-11-1-goes-vulkan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribbon Rules: Substance Painter 11.1 goes Vulkan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Substance Painter 11.1<\/a>, released on 18 November 2025<\/a>, marks a technical milestone: the long-expected switch from OpenGL to Vulkan on Windows and Linux. The change brings the viewport renderer, texture computations, and baking to Vulkan, aligning all platforms with the Metal backend introduced earlier on macOS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Adobe, Vulkan should improve viewport performance and shorten baking times. GPU raytracing now uses Vulkan-based compute, replacing both OptiX and DXR. This unifies GPU-based baking across AMD, NVIDIA, and Linux systems. However, users should verify GPU compatibility, as the new API may change hardware support requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n

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New Ribbon path tool<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The central addition in Substance Painter 11.1 is the Ribbon tool, a new member of the path tool family. It repeats or stretches a texture seamlessly along any 3D surface, with precise control over start and end segments and options for sharp or curved corners. The Ribbon can lay down clean gradients, trim details, or even deform text along a path, useful for stitching, labeling, or placing ornaments around complex geometry. Adobe describes it as a \u201ccleaner tool for more precise drawing with paths.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ribbon paths are compatible with symmetry, dynamic strokes, and come with blending modes for overlapping alpha, height, and normal channels. Artists can adjust size and opacity per vertex, decoupled from stylus pressure, giving finer control over variation along a stroke. Two new presets, Custom Ribbon Grayscale and Custom Ribbon Material, are provided to demonstrate advanced uses, such as multi-channel path strokes with dynamic ends and corners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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75 new presets and categories<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Painter 11.1 adds 75 new Ribbon presets, grouped into new categories accessible from shortcut buttons in the Properties window. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n