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When launching Substance Alchemsit for the first time, you will encounter the activation wizard (even if you are running the trial version).
3 choices are available:
- Evaluate this product: this will generate a licence file based on your hardware which will be valid for the next 30 days.
- Activate using licence file: if you have downloaded a *.key license file from your account page on our website, you will be able to load it in the next step
- Activate using your account: if you choose this option, the next step will ask for a login and password in order to be able to automatically retrieve a license file.
Make sure you are running the software as admin, and to disable your anti-virus.
Manual activation
It is possible to manually activate Substance Painter by putting the license.key file in the following folder:
Windows : C:/ProgramData/Allegorithmic/Substance Alchemist/license.key
MacOS : /Library/Application Support/Allegorithmic/Substance Alchemist/license.key
Linux : /opt/Allegorithmic/etc/Substance Alchemist/license.key
Make sure that the file is called license.key
Environment variable
The license location can be changed from its default to a custom location by defining an environment variable.This variable must be a direct path to the file itself.
The environment variable is: SUBSTANCE_ALCHEMIST_LICENSE