MaterialX in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.8 Documentation

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The MaterialX™ format is an open-source interchange method developed by Industrial Light & Magic in 2012. The project was released as open source in 2017 and has been hosted by the Academy Software Foundation since 2021.

MaterialX and the MaterialX logo are trademarks of The Linux Foundation.

The MaterialX format is used to share rich material surface descriptions between a wide variety of applications and renderers.

MaterialX Support
Settings and configurations support for using MaterialX in Unreal Engine.

Importing MaterialX Files
Workflows for importing MaterialX files into Unreal Engine.
MaterialX Extensions
Nodes definitions and custom attributes for using MaterialX in Unreal Engine.