Yes! It works with both the Adobe standalone installer, Creative Cloud versions, and Steam versions. You just need to point the Blender preferences to your Adobe Substance 3D Painter.exe located inside your Steam directory (e.g., C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/...).

The naming convention is required for detection, the first run needs matching suffix pairs (_l/_h, _low/_high, _lp/_hp, or _lowpoly/_highpoly) so BakeBridge can sort meshes into Low Poly/High Poly collections. These get normalized internally to _low and _high for Substance Painter's name matching.

Once the collections are created, you can technically rename the meshes, but this isn't advised. Substance Painter matches low and high poly pairs by name, so renaming after the fact can break that match.

No, it's extremely lightweight. The background watcher runs on a silent 1-second Blender timer that only checks if a small file (texture_manifest.json) exists in your project's textures folder. The check has negligible performance cost and has zero impact on Blender's viewport or CPU performance.