Environment Variables

Substance Painter supports a few environment variables which can be used to alter the default behavior of the software :

Variable	Description
SUBSTANCE_PAINTER_LICENSE	Value : Direct path to a license file itself. Allow to override the default location of the license file. Example : if the license file is on H:/allegorithmic/licenses/substance_painter.key, the variable data should be "H:/allegorithmic/licenses/substance_painter.key". Use SUBSTANCE_PAINTER_2_LICENSE instead for version earlier than 2017.1.0.
ALLEGO_LICENSE_IDLE_DELAY	Value : 7200 Specify how long in seconds before releasing a license seat in case of a multi-user configuration. Default is 2 hours (7200s).
ALG_PAINTER_SKIP_CHECK_FOR_UPDATES	Value : 0 or 1 (1 = Disable update check) Allows to skip update check when the application start. Supported since Substance Painter 2018.2.2.
SUBSTANCE_PAINTER_SVT_HARDWARE_ACCELERATION	Value : 0 or 1 (1 = Enabled) Use the Sparse feature on the GPU. If not supported by the GPU or the Operating System the setting will be ignored. For compatible hardware configurations refer to the documentation : Sparse Virtual Textures This variable override the parameter available in the Settings window. Supported since Substance Painter 2018.3.0
SUBSTANCE_PAINTER_TEMP_LOCATION	Value = Direct path to a folder Defines where Substance Painter should write its temporary files (including the SVT cache). This variable override the parameter available in the Settings window. Supported since Substance Painter 2018.3.0