Project Proposals
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The release of ASAM OpenMATERIAL 3D 1.0.0 marked an important milestone in standardizing the description of physical material properties and 3D model structures for more accurate simulations. However, not all relevant features could be implemented within the initial timeline. This new project continues the work, focusing on high-priority topics that remained open after release 1.0.0.
Topics may include:
- Support for binary lookup tables to reduce file size and optionally conceal detailed material data
- More detailed support for lighting and emissive materials
- Add a top-level $schema field for schema validation
- Best practices for exporting from Blender (and likely other tools)
- Clearer documentation
- New checker rules to improve consistency and error detection
- Better support for conductivity modeling and converting measured reflectance into BRDF
- Handling thickness for transmittance calculations
- Enabling scene composition / referencing / instancing of assets
- Support for LODs for humans / complex assets
- Integration ideas with OpenSCENARIO DSL
We’re aiming to keep all enhancements as backward-compatible as possible so that tools built against 1.0.0 will continue working. If we do need to make breaking changes, those will be reserved for future major versions.
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Enroll in the project:
Enroll by Jan 15, 2026
NOTE:
With your enrollment you are committing
to contribute at least 12 person days (PD)
to the project.
ASAM reserves the right to exclude companies
from the working group if their representatives
are absent more than 3 times without excuse.
ASAM membership is required to take part.
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