Is material layers workflow recommended for PC?

[zeOrb]

I'm not sure what workflow to choose - old one with "baked" textures and etc or just create a set of basic materials and then use pass them around via material attributes.
Material attribues way is more costly or less or it's simply another "interface" for creating materials?

[Hourences]

You are forgetting material instances. The discussion is to be between that and layers.

And then it is about equal, it really comes down to what you prefer IMO. I use a mix of all three (third being unique normal materials) dependent on what I am doing/what others did.