Archive notice: This article covers beta MaterialX support from June 2020. Plug-in status and application compatibility may differ today.
MaterialX is an open standard for transferring materials, look-development data and shader networks between DCC applications and renderers.
Substance Designer integration
A beta Substance plug-in allowed MaterialX graphs to create OpenGL real-time shaders for Designer and Painter viewports. Broad DCC and renderer support remained essential if materials were to travel without visual drift.
Painter viewport shaders
The second demonstration built GLSL viewport shaders for Substance Painter inside Substance Designer.
Studios should test node support, colour management and renderer parity before adopting an interchange graph.
