The full library with all materials, cameras, and lightsources from https://physicallybased.info/ can now be downloaded in one .zip-file. It’s available as a Release on Github, so if you Star the repository, each new update will also show up in your feed 👍 Neat!

https://github.com/AntonPalmqvist/physically-based-api/releases

MaterialX adds support for Slang Shader generation!

The Slang team at The Khronos Group is excited to announce a collaborative milestone: the MaterialX project now includes a dedicated Slang shader generator. MaterialX describes complex, hardware-agnostic look-development data. This integration positions Slang as a critical bridge for open-standard material interoperability

Learn more: https://www.aswf.io/blog/materialx-adds-support-for-slang-shader-generation/
@AcademySwf #materialx #slang #shaders #ASWF #machinelearning #openusd @openusd

For any developer who is interested in contributing to an Academy Software Foundation project, perhaps for the first time, I wanted to highlight ASWF Dev Days 2024, which will take place on September 26-27.

MaterialX will be a proud participant, as will many of our sibling projects, including OpenImageIO, OpenColorIO, OpenEXR, and Open Shading Language!

https://www.aswf.io/blog/devdays2024/

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