Foundry has released Mari 6 as a public alpha. The new features announced so far include updating Mari’s third-party libraries to the versions specified by the VFX Reference Platform, the ability to export a full USD Look file that contains both a USD Preview Surface shader and their chosen vendor shader, and interactive selection group tools to drive USD face set based material assignments. Find out more in the online release notes.

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