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MaterialX is an open standard for the exchange of rich material and look-development content across applications and renderers.
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Improved ramp support? #797

Closed BrianHanke closed 2 years ago

BrianHanke commented 2 years ago

Howdy, I'm using MaterialX in Houdini Karma and I'm very pleased with the system overall. The only thing I find lacking are the native MatX ramp nodes. To address this, SideFX released their own ramps along with Houdini 19. However, their solution isn't portable to other apps. Are there plans to make a more feature-complete native ramp that will work in all MatX-enabled apps? Thank you!

swillisart commented 2 years ago

Hey! It's a planned feature for v1.39.

https://github.com/materialx/MaterialX/issues/674#issuecomment-985156797

(copied from the slack channel)

MaterialX TSC Minutes - Tuesday, November 9th Custom ramp nodes in Houdini are implemented as MaterialX graphs, making them portable and forward-compatible We should combine the best aspects of Houdini ramps and MaterialX v1.38 ramps (specification only) for the upcoming MaterialX v1.39

BrianHanke commented 2 years ago

Awesome, glad to hear it!

jstone-lucasfilm commented 2 years ago

Merging this issue with the earlier #674 for tracking, and I'll note that the topic was discussed further at today's MaterialX TSC meeting:

https://academysoftwarefdn.slack.com/archives/C0230LWBE2X/p1655837092353349