Jonathan Stone

For members of the computer graphics community who are interested in X alternatives, I wanted to highlight the excellent graphics.social instance that my colleague @jaxzin has created on Mastodon, and you can find me there at @SheriffStone" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">graphics.social/@SheriffStone

Thanks to our colleagues at @Adobe, @autodesk, @ChaosGroup, @nvidia, @Pixar, and @sidefx for their amazing work on the MaterialX and OpenPBR Virtual Town Hall for @AcademySwf Open Source Days 2024. The full slide deck can be found at materialx.org/assets/ASWF_OS…

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. events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-da…

MaterialX v1.39.0 has been released! This version updates the MaterialX specification and codebase to 1.39, bringing significant improvements to its pattern and physically based shading nodes, including support for OpenPBR Surface (seen here in Omniverse). github.com/AcademySoftwar…

@michae1becker Thanks for the kind words, and this is actually a great question for the ASWF Slack, where other teams in the USD/MaterialX space can weigh in. I believe you're already on our Slack, but I'll provide a link in case others are interested: aswf.io/get-involved/

@SheriffStone any more examples of USD/mtx in the wild?

hopelessly smitten with the look of the MaterialX chess set

MaterialX 1.38.9 is released! This version adds support for environment prefiltering on the GPU, integrates improvements to the Graph Editor and Web Viewer from ASWF Dev Days, and introduces the first non-photorealistic rendering node library to MaterialX. github.com/AcademySoftwar…

MaterialX v1.38.8 has been released! This version adds a rich set of new pattern nodes to the standard, and is the first MaterialX release with support for iOS builds, drag-and-drop loading in the Web Viewer, and MaterialX Python distribution through PyPI. github.com/AcademySoftwar…

@Adobe @AutodeskOSS @openusd @IKEA @nvidiaomniverse @pixarsrenderman @PrismPipeline @AcademySwf For folks who weren't able to attend, video recordings of the MaterialX Virtual Town Hall and other sessions at ASWF Open Source Days 2023 are now online: youtube.com/watch?v=PdxArD…

Thanks to our colleagues at @Adobe, @AutodeskOSS, @openusd, @IKEA, @nvidiaomniverse, @pixarsrenderman, and @PrismPipeline for their amazing work on the MaterialX Virtual Town Hall for @AcademySwf Open Source Days 2023. The full slide deck can be found at materialx.org/assets/ASWF_OS…

@keescheese I'll see you there, old friend, and you can also find me at @SheriffStone" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">graphics.social/@SheriffStone

We're excited to announce the open source release of a brand new @MaterialXcg editor: QuiltiX Create your materials in this artist friendly standalone editor. Download QuiltiX here for free: prism-pipeline.com/quiltix Developed by @ShadesOfOrange_ and Richard Frangenberg

Today we're announcing OpenPBR, a new subproject of @MaterialXcg! Developed by @autodesk and @Adobe, OpenPBR is a new shading model that provides creatives with a more artist-friendly bridge from one software to another. Read more here: aswf.io/blog/academy-s…

Highlighting a second talk at tomorrow's Townhall, NVIDIA will present recent refinements to MDL shader generation in MaterialX, improving the level of visual parity across shading languages for common MaterialX examples.

Highlighting one of the talks at tomorrow's Townhall, QuiltiX is a MaterialX graph editor developed by Prism Pipeline, built upon an open technology stack including MaterialX, USD/Hydra, and NodeGraphQt.

Looking forward to the MaterialX Virtual Townhall on August 2nd, featuring a brand new open shading model from Adobe and Autodesk, MaterialX technology updates from Pixar and NVIDIA, and new MaterialX graph editors from Remedy Entertainment and IKEA. events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-da…

@winxamitosis Usually each vendor documents the set of MaterialX shading models that they support (both for import and export), as this can evolve quickly, and it would be tricky to keep an external list up to date.

@winxamitosis @winxamitosis Do you mean which shading models are available in different applications that support MaterialX? Arnold and Karma, for example, support all MaterialX shading models (e.g. Standard Surface, glTF PBR), but Unreal only imports Standard Surface for now.

@dpentecost @AtarayoSD @MaterialXcg For now, I believe it's an intentional choice that Apple supports only a subset of the MaterialX PBR nodes on VisionOS, but it should be straightforward for them to remap Standard Surface nodes to their supported set in the future.

@AtarayoSD And now we try it - but RealityComposer Pro does not support the standard surface shader node from MaterialXView, in the .mtlx file that it saves. (See RCP screenshots). Maybe the MaterialX folks @MaterialXcg can help us to use it in #visionOS?

MaterialX Viewer: supports MSL (Metal Shading Language) generation🌛 1. get the project from GitHub and build it or use the pre-build binary on macOS 2. run the app and load MaterialX file, and push 'G' key => Metal files will be saved GitHub: github.com/AcademySoftwar…

Join us on August 2nd for the #MaterialX Virtual Townhall at @AcademySwf Open Source Days 2023, featuring presentations from Adobe, Autodesk, OpenUSD, IKEA, NVIDIA, RenderMan, and Remedy Entertainment. events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-da…

Very impressed by the Apple Vision Pro announcement this morning, and there will be a technical deep dive into MaterialX and physically based shading in Reality Composer Pro on June 7th. developer.apple.com/videos/play/ww…