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title: "Solaris & MaterialX"
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Artists and Studios can harness the creative flexibility of MaterialX and RenderMan, creating a variety of materials from glass, metals, SSS, plastics, and common PBR workflows using the *mtlxStandard* node inside of Solaris


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Working with MaterialX shading nodes works in the same way as you would with other RenderMan materials.  Simply create your MaterialX shading network in a *materialLibrary* and assign it to geo as usual.  
  
  


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## Limitations


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For the moment, there are a number of limitations with rendering MaterialX in Solaris with RenderMan, which include 

- MaterialX Subnets are not currently supported.
- Rendering with XPU is currently not supported.