texturedesign / materials-viewer

🙋 [HIRING] Rust-based 3D renderer to visualize PBR materials and shaders.

Materials Viewer

An upcoming Rust-based application to render, benchmark, and visualize PBR shaders and materials.

🙋 HIRING! 🙋 texture·design is looking for a Rust developer as 3D Graphics Programmer to work on this repository and more! If this sounds interesting to you, contact us via the email address on the organization page.

Mockup 1: Application window that renders a SVBRDF with physically-based rendering, based on a prototype in Python that was too slow!

1. Benchmarking Tool

The primary goal of this tool is benchmarking: to assist in measuring performance of PBR shaders — both in computation and memory usage. We have tools to render in Python, but these don't provide sufficient insight into the GPU performance. This app is to be written in a high-level but performant language like Rust for this reason.

Features

• Physically-based rendering of materials.
• Measure performance of material shaders.
• Change settings for textures (e.g. BCn compression).
• Headless mode for accuracy & automation.
• Display statistics or save to disk.

2. Demo Application

The secondary goal of this app is to preview PBR shaders, so technical artists and generative engineers can see the results of their work quickly in a visually pleasing and interactive way.

Features

• High-quality displacement mapping.
• Polar camera in top-down mode.
• Controls for zoom levels.
• Switch between material shaders.
• Automatic reloading of assets.

Mockup 2: Application window that shows the different properties of the material, or parameters of the SVBRDF.

Roadmap

1. Proof Of Concept — Decide which Rust-based 3D engine to use (e.g. Bevy) and prototype the minimal application to render a PBR material.
2. Minimum Viable Prototype — Estimate complexity of the features above and implement those necessary for a first iteration.
3. Testing & Scaling — Running visual checks and stress tests on a dataset of materials and a variety of procedural shaders.

🙋 HIRING! 🙋 texture·design is looking for a Rust developer as 3D Graphics Programmer to work on this repository and more! If this sounds interesting to you, contact us via the email address on the organization page.