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The latest Materialx coverage curated for game developers.
Blender at SIGGRAPH 2026
Blender is heading to SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles with a slate of talks centered on open standards and material workflows. The most relevant session for engine and tools teams …
Official
Blender
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2 months, 1 week ago
The Minimal Retroreflective Microfacet Model
A one-line substitution can turn existing microfacet BSDFs into physically plausible retroreflective materials, which is a nice practical win for graphics teams. The model is already in OpenPBR and MaterialX, …
Research
arXiv cs.GR
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3 months, 1 week ago
The Minimal Retroreflective Microfacet Model
A small but practical graphics change: the Minimal Retroreflective Microfacet model can turn an existing microfacet BSDF into a physically plausible retroreflective one by swapping in the reflected view direction. …
Research
Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques
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4 months ago