Maximum images per Material in Blender

Image atlas can be useful for machine that cannot handle that many images per material. If you exceed the number of images, the material can appear pink in the viewport. Here's some limitation found on Blender 3.6

GPU UDIM Images Limit Standard Images Limit
NVIDIA 27 55
Radeon 12 24
Intel ? ?
Mac ? ?

Tips

Here's some tips while using ucupaint - Use less generated textures like noise or voronoi if you want the shader compilation faster