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Hello, I'm happy to announce that the node based PBR Composer is on the road. What is PBR Composer ? In short, PBR Composer helps you design and visualize a PBR Material in an efficient way. Parameterizing takes place by dragging and connecting specific nodes from a palette (typically textures, colors and uv-coordinates) to the output node, which represents the PBR Material. A preview panel lets you see all changes in realtime and the corresponding js-sourcecode will be updated as well. The resulting graph can be downloaded in JSON format for later use. Images can be inserted via preview fileselect dialog and/or Drag&Drop, in latter case the images will be transformed to embedded data-urls so the javascript functions can be reused without dependencies. Different meshes and environment-maps are available to see the material under different geometry and reflective light conditions. Motivation for PBR Composer: Due to the complexity of the PBR material (soo many combinations with soo much amazing effects) there is a need of having realtime feedback reflecting the changing parameters. Other than some editor already out using a bunch of parameters in confusing properties panels, nodes lets you to concentrate only on the parameters you need giving a nice overview in form of a graph. Nodes can also be shared and avoids therfore redundancy in the sourcecode. The goal is/was to make the user interface as efficient as possible. The idea for realizing the PBR Composer was inspired from Shader Editor. Technical details: PBR Composer is a web application based on dat.gui, w2ui, litegraph.js and of course on BABYLON.js TODO: At the moment, PBR Composer is customized for PBR-Glossy materials. The current activity is realizing a function for switching between Glossy and Metallic paradigms. Any questions? Let me know... PS: PBR Composer is still in alpha stage but will be deployed in beta stage soon Here it is te demo ...