Brushfactory Formats .sut

What is a .sut file?

A .sut file is an exported Clip Studio Paint sub tool brush. Uniquely, it is a complete SQLite database. A database browser will open one and show you every table.

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What's inside one

Node

The brush itself. NodeName is the name you see in the Sub Tool palette. NodeVariantId points at the current settings and NodeInitVariantId at the defaults it resets to.

Variant

One row per variant, and one column per parameter: size, spacing, opacity and hundreds more. The column set is not fixed: it differs between Clip Studio versions, so a reader has to discover the columns rather than assume them.

MaterialFile

Tip and texture imagery. The FileData column holds an uncompressed tar archive of the material, with the PNGs inside it. Some materials are wrapped in Clip Studio's own .c2f container instead.

Pressure curves and dynamics. Dynamics are not numeric columns. They are big-endian binary blobs in the *effector columns. Clip Studio Paint stores controllers per setting. For brush angle, 0x10 means pen direction, 0x20 means barrel rotation, and 0x40 means stroke direction. Other settings use their own controller mappings.

How to open it

On desktop, double-click the .sut or drag it into the Sub Tool palette. On iPad or phone, import it from the Sub Tool palette menu. Nothing else reads .sut natively. See the install guide.

Converting .sut

Out of Clip Studio Paint: Clip Studio Paint to Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint to Procreate, Clip Studio Paint to Krita, Clip Studio Paint to GIMP, Clip Studio Paint to MediBang.

Into Clip Studio Paint: Photoshop to Clip Studio Paint, Procreate to Clip Studio Paint, Krita to Clip Studio Paint, GIMP to Clip Studio Paint.

What survives each trip, and what does not, is set out on the fidelity report.

Common questions

How do I open a .sut file? On desktop, double-click the .sut or drag it into the Sub Tool palette. On iPad or phone, import it from the Sub Tool palette menu. Nothing else reads .sut natively. See the install guide.

Can a .sut brush be used in another app? Not directly, because brush formats are not interchangeable. Brushfactory reads the .sut file into a universal schema and writes a native brush for Photoshop, Procreate, Krita or GIMP. For MediBang, it provides the brush tip and a settings sheet. The brush tips, grain, spacing, and pressure curves transfer as native settings.

The information on this page is derived directly from Brushfactory's own format parser (brushfactory/formats/sut.py), which was built against the applications' own source and against real files, not from a specification document.

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