gltf: Helping to Make 3D Pervasive

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THE ROUTE TO REALISM

Khronos PBR (Physically Based Rendering)

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Khronos glTF PBR defines a set of parameters that are used within glTF to simulate real-world lighting interactions, materials, and surface properties. The combination of glTF’s efficient delivery and PBR’s realism has become a game-changer for the 3D industry, empowering artists and developers to deliver compelling and visually captivating experiences. A wide range of physical properties are supported, with detailed descriptions available in the core glTF 2.0 specification and accompanying material Extensions.

The Portable GPU Friendly Texture Format

KTX 2.0 - Delivering GPU Compressed Textures in glTF

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KTX (Khronos Texture) is an efficient, lightweight container format supported by glTF for reliably distributing GPU textures to a diverse range of platforms to reduce asset file size and GPU memory usage. KTX adds the ability to specify textures using KTX v2 images with Basis Universal supercompression and is available in viewers and applications supporting the KHR_texture_basisu extension. The contents of a KTX file can range from a simple base-level 2D texture to a cubemap array texture with mipmaps. A wide range of open-source tools are available to help artists and developers create, convert, validate and transcode KTX compressed textures.

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RENDER EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE

glTF and 3D Commerce

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The Khronos 3D Commerce Working Group brings together industry-leading e-commerce companies to remove the barriers to deploying 3D commerce at scale using glTF. The group helps drive the development of the glTF format and ecosystem to meet the needs of 3D commerce including creating 3D authoring guidelines, tutorials and tools. Projects have included the development of the Material Variants extension and the glTF Asset Auditor and glTF Validator tools for streamlining and validating asset creation pipelines.

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Get Involved

Help Shape the Future of glTF

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The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group is constantly working to advance the use of glTF and is actively working on new initiatives to address any technical challenges, industry friction or new user requirements. Any organization is welcome to make contributions.

Community Discussions

You'll find thriving glTF discussions on several platforms that provide a great way to get involved.

• glTF on Discord
• glTF on Github (see Issues and Pull Requests)
• glTF Khronos Discussion Forum
• glTF on LinkedIn
• glTF for 3D Commerce Working Group

Join the Khronos Group

If you are working with glTF and wish to get involved in helping shape it's future please consider joining Khronos and our Working Group. Any organization is welcome to join and multiple levels of membership are available to enable any organization, large or small, to get involved.

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Industry Support for glTF

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The following organisations and projects have shown public support for glTF. If you would like to add you organization to this list please Contact Us describing you use of glTF.