materialx-conversion-app 1.39.4

A Flask-based application for MaterialX conversion utilities.

Python Materialx Conversion Application

This sample package shows the basic components required to connect MaterialX running in Python to a Web client running Javascript in order to run conversion or rendering applications.

Server-side rendering using MaterialXView

Server-side conversion from MaterialX to USD and glTF (top and bottom respectively)

Dependents

The following packages are installed by default as part of the pip installation.

• flask and flask-socketio: Python packages for Flask support

• socket-io: For Javascript WebSocket support

• usd-core: for OpenUSD conversion. Different versions can be downloaded explicitly from PyPi. The assumed minimum version is 24.11.

• MaterialX : Different versions can be downloaded explicitly from PyPi. The assumed minimum version is 1.38.10.

• gltf_materialx_converter: MaterialX glTF Convertor Python library. Note that this is not available on PyPi currently so the Github repository must be cloned and the package locally installed.

Rendering depends on the environment variable: MATERIALX_DEFAULT_VIEWER being set to the location of the MaterialXView binary. This is part of the MaterialX release distribution as found here

Installation

Either install the package from PyPi:

pip install materialx_conversion_app

or clone the materialXWeb repository and install from the root folder:

pip install .

or

pip install -e .

if planning to perform edits on the repository.

Execution

Run the main package using:

materialx_conversion_app

or directly with Python:

python MaterialXConversionApp.py

By default the application is running a local server. To access the client page open the following in a Web browser:

http://127.0.0.1:8080

Deployment

This application is not currently deployed on any platform, though it should run properly with the exception of rendering in a Render container.