Sceneform-android-sdk: custom material integration for android studio

[michaelvogt]

Would be great to have the usual editor functionality one gets for Java also for a .mat file, like proper syntax completion, error highlighting and selected variable highlighting.

Even better would be a live shader preview.

Amazing would be a shader debugger like apple introduced this summer for metal.

I know you can't comment on not yet publicly introduced products, but getting better functionality around custom material would be welcome.

[romainguy]

We're working on a visual material editor with real-time previews: https://github.com/google/filament/tree/master/tools/tungsten

A couple of work in progress screenshots:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5298046/45185381-d63d5580-b1de-11e8-832e-978459fcfee0.gif
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5298046/45641781-a4947c00-ba73-11e8-9ebd-985d5001f4c5.gif

[michaelvogt]

That is actually pretty neat to have. Looking forward to it.
Felt always jealous when I saw what the blender guys managed to create with the node editor there.

Realtime vertex and fragment shader preview would be separate from this, right?

[romainguy]

It's part of it, you can see it in the screenshots. Editing the material automatically update a live preview.

[michaelvogt]

@romainguy
Last commit seems to have been 5 months ago. Is it canceled or are you at it internally?

[vortice3D]

Hi there

As Michael says, in orden to use ARCore+Sceneform as a real world production framework, we need a material (sfm / mat) authoring tool (or plugin for main 3D Tools) for the artist guys and girls.

In our current developments the lack of such a tool is revealing as a real production nightmare.

Is this kind of tool a milestone in the future releases plan?