Naming Linter

Naming Linter walkthrough

Coming soon

The Naming Linter checks your texture file names against your studio’s naming rules and points out any that don’t match. It only tells you about problems - it never renames or changes your files for you, so it’s completely safe to run.

Keeping names consistent matters because the Auto Material Creator relies on them to know which texture goes where.

Checking your files

Open Tools -> Art Pipeline -> Naming Linter, choose whether to check the selected folder or the whole project, and click Scan. Any file that breaks the naming rules is listed in the window - click one to jump straight to it in the Project window.

It also checks as you work

You don’t have to run a scan every time. Whenever you bring in a new texture or rename one, the tool checks it right away and warns you if the name doesn’t match. When you fix a name, it confirms with a green Fixed message.

Tip

The fixed file simply disappears from the list the next time you scan. (Unity’s message log can’t erase the old warning, so the green Fixed message is your sign that it’s sorted.)

Settings

Found in Project Settings -> Art Pipeline -> Linter.

Setting	Default	What it does
Folders to ignore	None	Folders the linter should skip, both when scanning and when checking as you work.
Naming rules to use	Substance Painter	Which naming convention your files are checked against. The Auto Material Creator uses the same one.

A file is flagged simply when its name doesn’t match any of your chosen naming rules.

Hit something annoying? Tell us.

If anything about keeping texture names tidy feels repetitive, fiddly, or just slows you down, that is exactly the kind of thing we can build a tool for. No idea is too small - a lot of what exists here started as someone saying "I wish this just did itself."

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