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/
Highlighting one of the key contributions in MaterialX v1.39.2, Masuo Suzuki at NVIDIA contributed the Chiang Hair BSDF, seen below in NVIDIA RTX, which opens the door to the authoring of cross-platform, customizable hair shading models in MaterialX and OpenUSD.
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/releases/tag/v1.39.2
I wanted to highlight this recent proposal from Masuo Suzuki at NVIDIA, adding support for Mikkelsen's classic Hex-Tiling technique in MaterialX.
We're very interested in feedback from the graphics community on this proposal, and we're aiming to include this feature in MaterialX v1.39.3.
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/issues/2093
Thanks to our colleagues at Adobe, Autodesk, Chaos, NVIDIA, Pixar, and SideFX for their amazing work on the MaterialX and OpenPBR Virtual Town Hall for ASWF Open Source Days 2024.
The full slide deck can be found at https://materialx.org/assets/ASWF_OSD2024_MaterialX_Final.pdf
Join us on July 23rd for the MaterialX Virtual Townhall at ASWF Open Source Days 2024, featuring presentations from Adobe, Autodesk, Chaos, NVIDIA, Pixar, and SideFX.
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-days/program/virtual-town-halls/
