Will Malt become available to the artist without programming knowledge?

[metkymetky]

Hello @pragma37
I am new to the Malt project and from looking into it on the surface it seems to be a great tool. Thank you for your hard work!

Also, from what I understood, it seems like this engine requires some programming knowledge.
I wonder if it is planned to make the engine available to the artists without programming knowledge, to have a clear, artist-oriented interface, or is it required to know how to code to use it to the full potential?

[panthavma]

Hello!

Malt has a node interface that is pretty much equivalent to code for most purposes, you can see it in the material examples here: #94

You might still need programming logic at times, but specific knowledge is not needed imo.

[pragma37]

While the nodes are more technical and less documented than the EEVEE/Cycles ones, they are designed to be used by artists too.

You can read the docs here:
https://malt3d.com/Documentation/Graphs/

And here are some (somewhat outdated) introduction videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiN2BGdwwlLqbks8h5MohvH0Xd0Zql_Sg

[eballeste]

There was a related project called BEER that worked on top of MALT and would allow you to do a lot of these things via layers in Blenders UI that was in the works but I think that got stalled due to MALT evolving in the way that it has.

[metkymetky]

@panthavma @pragma37 @eballeste
thank you all for your kind answers.