Making A Hello World Substance Painter Plugin
Substance Painter plugins use the QT Meta Language , or QML files to build their interface. From Wikipedia: It is a JSON-like declarative language for designing user interface–centric applications. Inline JavaScript code handles imperative aspects. It is part of Qt Quick, the UI creation kit developed by Nokia within the Qt framework. Using this information, we can start building a window with a button to execute our script. Visual Studio Code For this tutorial I’m going to be using Visual Studio Code , a lightweight IDE from Microsoft. It’s not the same thing as Visual Studio, but it’s a nice scripting editor that’s available on Mac, Linux and PC. Other text editors like Sublime will do the job quite well. Installing QML Syntax Highlighting By default, QML files will appear as ordinary text files in Visual Studio Code. While this won’t stop you from being able to write the plugin, adding some QML support will make reading, organizing and editing our script easier. To do this, I’m go