Omniverse Blender Material Templates

When creating new meshes with the intent of working with Omniverse, we suggest you use the lossless material templates that this version of Blender provides in the Shading panel:

Numbered elements in the Blender Shading panel UI

#	Option	Description	Lossless Node Adjustment
1	Omniverse menu	Contains material graph templates	N/A
2	UV Set	Blender mesh connection	No
3	UV Coordinates	UV controls	Yes
4	Texture Inputs	Texture management	Yes
5	Parameters	Parametric controls	Yes
6	Output	Blender output	No
7	Information	General help	N/A

Access the Omniverse Material

Access the Omniverse menu on the right-hand side of the Shading panel’s toolbar:

An arrow identifying the Blender Shading panel's Omniverse menu

This menu offers two options:

Replace with OmniPBR graph template
Replace with OmniGlass graph template

Adjust parameters through the Parameters > OmniPBR Compute node:

Provide texture maps in the Texture Inputs nodes:

Converting Your Existing Materials

Upon Exporting to USD, materials are, by default, converted to MDL. Once converted, users can continue to work seamlessly using the converted materials.

For any new materials added to the scene, we suggest using Omniverse Blender Material Templates however, you can work as normal and export again to convert.