Houdini GL and MatX previews
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Howdy all, back to Houdini a bit for Mardini and wondering if there's a way to get Houdini GL to display MaterialX textures. Principled shader works fine, but as you can see the MatX material is black. I tried adding a MatX to USD Preview Surface thingy but that didn't work either. Thanks!

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They should work. Some few mtlx nodes dont work in gl yet and cause a black material. Do you have any other nodes besides the image node?
Thanks for confirmation it should work. I'm using a custom image node with a bunch of color correction and other features built in. After some testing it turns out that it didn't like Signature: Color on the final switch node. I changed it to Color (l) and it works! What is Color (l)? That parameter isn't in the docs.
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If you build a material in the USD MaterialX Subnet, you won't mix in Karma-specific nodes by accident.