MaterialX v1.39.4 has been released!
This version adds support for WebGPU Shading Language, hex-tiled and lat-long images, NanoColor spaces, 2D fractals, animated materials, and many contributions from our participants in ASWF Dev Days 2025.
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/releases/tag/v1.39.4
For interested folks who couldn't attend the event, the video for our recent MaterialX and OpenPBR Virtual Town Hall is now posted:
Thanks to our colleagues at Autodesk, IKEA, NVIDIA, OTOY, and Pixar Animation Studios for their amazing work on the MaterialX and OpenPBR Virtual Town Hall for ASWF Open Source Days 2025.
The full slide deck can be found at https://materialx.org/assets/ASWF_OSD2025_MaterialX_Final.pdf
Highlighting one talk at this event, Johan Bowald from IKEA will present new work on Shader Translation Graphs in content production.
The two renders below are of a MaterialX cloth material, with the original Standard Surface on the left, and the glTF PBR translation on the right.
Join us on August 5th for the MaterialX Virtual Townhall at ASWF Open Source Days 2025, featuring presentations from Autodesk, IKEA, Lucasfilm, NVIDIA, OpenPBR, OTOY, and Pixar.
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-days/program/virtual-town-halls/
Join us on August 5th for the MaterialX and OpenPBR Virtual Townhall at ASWF Open Source Days 2025, featuring presentations from Autodesk, IKEA, Lucasfilm, NVIDIA, OTOY, and Pixar RenderMan.
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-days/program/virtual-town-halls/
I continuously update the database at https://api.physicallybased.info and the website at https://physicallybased.info
Some of the recent updates include:
- New materials
- New cameras (now also with resolutions)
- New light sources
- More accurate complex IOR values for metals
- Nicer display of references, with more info
- Started work on API v2
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MaterialX v1.39.3 has been released!
This version is primarily focused on the alignment between MaterialX and OpenUSD, with a number of improvements and fixes that support an upgrade to MaterialX v1.39.3 as the default version in OpenUSD 25.05.
Additionally, it adds support for OSL v1.14 and MDL v1.10, and includes optimizations to ShaderGen and GitHub CI to improve performance for artists and developers working with MaterialX.
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/releases/tag/v1.39.3
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