InstaMAT: Revolutionizing Digital Content Creation with Seamless DCC Integrations

Efficiency is at the core of modern digital content creation, and InstaMAT transforms how artists create by integrating its industry-leading technology directly into the world’s most popular DCC tools and game engines.

With direct support for Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, Blender, Unreal Engine, and Unity, artists can texture and generate 3D assets without leaving their preferred workspace. InstaMAT’s integrations expand an artist’s capabilities by bringing advanced technology and AAA quality materials to software platforms that would otherwise lack these features.

Artists can browse an extensive material library, adjust settings, and view real-time updates directly within the host application, ensuring a smooth and efficient creative process. Through custom nodes, teams can create specialized tools that streamline workflows for their studio’s specific needs. InstaMAT’s flexibility and customization empowers artists to work more efficiently while maintaining their creative vision.

Real-Time Material Visualization for Faster Iteration

Texturing 3D assets traditionally involves multiple stages: preparation, texturing, exporting, and importing into the final destination. Each stage requires different software tools and specialized expertise. These lengthy pipelines often limit artists’ opportunities to creatively iterate on their designs in a production environment where time is critical.

InstaMAT makes it easier than ever before to texture 3D assets by providing an extensive library of infinitely customizable, procedural materials. Each material contains a set of dynamic parameters that make changing the color of a brick wall or dialing in the amount of dirt as simple as picking a color or dragging a slider.

With InstaMAT’s integrations, changes to materials appear instantly, empowering artists to experiment with different looks and make informed creative decisions without waiting for lengthy rendering times or multi-step workflows. Gone are the days of having to use one piece of software to create a material, then another to apply it to a model, then bringing it into its final destination whether it be for realtime or offline rendering.

With InstaMAT for Unreal Engine, artists can search for a specific material, apply it to a model, and tweak its visual characteristics without leaving the game engine. Without InstaMAT, this workflow requires altering materials in one program, reapplying textures in another, and reimporting assets into the engine. Having all these functions in-engine reduces costs significantly.

Automate Workflows that Previously Spanned Multiple Software Packages

InstaMAT is more than a material library — it unlocks powerful custom tools that extend the capabilities of DCC software and game engines. Features like mesh processing, 2D image manipulation, procedural baking, and ultra-fast 3D rendering offer artists tools beyond what standard workflows provide.

For instance, in Unreal Engine, InstaMAT’s procedural tools can generate entire assets instantly, enabling rapid environment creation. A single custom node built with InstaMAT can take the place of separate modeling, baking, texturing, and optimization software with a one-click solution.

Repetitive tasks like UV unwrapping and retopology are some of the most time-consuming steps in digital asset creation. By leveraging leading optimization technology from InstaLOD, InstaMAT includes powerful nodes such as Mesh Optimize, Mesh UV Unwrap, and Mesh Bake to streamline labor-intensive workflows that would normally involve multiple pieces of software to accomplish.

Custom nodes created in InstaMAT Studio can be used in Blender to process geometry with a single click, allowing for faster modeling and optimization. These integrations provide limitless creative flexibility while maintaining technical efficiency.

Artists can use these nodes directly in their preferred DCC tool or game engine, eliminating the need to switch between applications. This streamlined workflow lets artists concentrate on creative decisions instead of technical details, making it an essential tool for production work.

Explore More with Abstract Polyverse

Discover assets created with InstaMAT in a new dimension! Take a look at these wooden crates in augmented reality now brought to you by Abstract Polyverse. Click the AR button to instantly view the asset with augmented reality on your iPhone or iPad.

Each wooden crate was optimized, UV unwrapped, baked, and textured in InstaMAT Studio. Even the produce was added to each crate procedurally using rigid-body physics simulations. Learn more about the entire process in our YouTube short here.