MetaSL® is a meta shading language designed to encompass the expressive power of all current and future shading languages and shading language standards.
MetaSL shaders and Phenomena are valuable and future-proof assets. They do not need to be re-authored for different target platforms. These shaders can be compiled to render on target platforms, including CPUs (C++), GPUs (Cg, GLSL, HLSL) and other current and future platforms. This eliminates the need to re-engineer and debug shaders and Phenomena for each platform.
Products Using MetaSL
MetaSL Material Library
Are you looking for high-quality materials for download and immediate use based on MetaSL shaders? Visit our MetaSL Material Library.
mental mill Artist Edition
Are you looking for an authoring tool to create MetaSL shaders? mental mill Artist Edition is a visual shader development environment that supports the familiar graph editing paradigm to create shader graphs and phenomena with real time preview rendering.
mental mill Standard Edition
Are you looking for an authoring tool to create, share and debug MetaSL shaders? mental mill Standard Edition adds source code editing, a powerful debugger, and mental ray preview rendering along with many other features.
mental mill Integrator Edition
Are you looking for support to enable MetaSL in your application? mental mill Integrator Edition offers our MetaSL compiler technology and mental mill product family shader editing technology as library components for you to integrate easily into your products.
RealityServer
RealityServer uses MetaSL as its only shading language. MetaSL is used as the shader language for rendering in both CPU and GPU modes, allowing for all shaders to be written once and used anywhere.
mental ray
Beginning with mental ray 3.7+ all future versions will support MetaSL shaders.
Autodesk 3ds Max 2010
3ds Max 2010 supports MetaSL shaders in its viewport rendering and its mental ray final rendering. 3ds Max 2010 also bundles mental mill Artist Edition as the node based shader authoring tool with its release.