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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Brian,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you very much for your comments. Our position is that we would be happy to support and help with the MaterialX integration effort in Blender as well.
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<p class="MsoNormal">To clarify, MDL isn’t a vendor specific format. It’s BSD-licensed open source and is currently supported in more tools than any other material interchange. Tools that support MDL include Substance Designer, V-Ray, Solidworks Visualize,
Unreal Engine, Siemens NX and Quixel Megascans. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That said, we want to emphasize that MDL and MaterialX complement each other. As you point out, there is a MaterialX backend for MDL, as described in this March GTC talk:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">https://resources.nvidia.com/gtcd-2020/GTC2020-s21469?lx=3X9y6T<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also, MDL support is now part of the regular Lucasfilm git repository of MaterialX (https://github.com/materialx/MaterialX/tree/v1.38).
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Bf-usd <bf-usd-bounces@blender.org> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Brian Savery<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 11, 2020 9:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> bf-usd@blender.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bf-usd] Collaboration goals<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Michael. Glad to see Nvidia contributing to this. However, I disagree with adding support for "open interchange" with Mdl materials, since that is a vendor specific format. Wouldn't it make more sense to focus on materialx (which you guys
have a Mdl back end for anyway). We (AMD) are starting this effort now with materialx and would welcome the contribution. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Not trying to call out anything but let's not add more vendor specific stuff to "open Software".<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Brian<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:brian.savery@gmail.com" target="_blank">brian.savery@gmail.com</a><br>
508-274-8700<o:p></o:p></p>
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