USD Projects and Resources

Projects and resources relating to Pixar's Universal Scene Description

Contents

• USDZ
• Reference
• Tools
• Integrations
• Samples
• Building
• Distros
• Syntax Highlighters
• Hydra
• Resolvers

USDZ

• Apple's Reality Composer exports scenes to USDZ
• Sketchfab has nearly a half million USDZ files available for download
• USDZ at Apple WWDC 2018 presentation
• UsdSkel for Apple's ArKit
• Apple News USDZ files can be embedded in Apple News articles
• ARKit USDZ format assets from Apple
• Samples from FusionAR USDZ format assets
• GiDiOdev a few USDZ format assets

Reference

• openusd.org The official website
• USD Interest Google Group
• Introductory Videos Several video presentations by Pixar
• UsdSkel All about skinning schemas for USD
• USD based pipelines 2016 presentation on Pixar's use of USD in the pipeline
• Using USD with Apple's technologies WWDC 2017 presentation
• USD at UTS Animal Logic Academy video presentations
• [https://graphics.pixar.com/usd/docs/Simple-Shading-in-USD.html] USD's preview material
• USD Cookbook Colin Kennedy's USD code and asset samples
• Dreamworks USD Integration
• Luma USD Integration Brief notes on Luma's pipeline

Tools

• gltf2usd Convert gltf 2.0 files to USD
• animated cubes script Generate an animated file for testing
• USD Manager USD Manager by Dreamworks
• holopointer Record from a Kinect USB device to USD (MacOS/Swift)
• ptc2usd Pixar PTC and Houdini JSON point cloud to USD converter

Integrations

• Apple's Finder and Preview application can display USD files natively
• Aero Adobe's Project Aero
• AL_USDMaya Animal Logic's plugin (now unified with the Autodesk Maya plugin)
• AL_USDMaya Animal Logic's Asset Resolution system
• AL_USDMaya Presentation about the AL_USDMaya workflow
• Arnold Luma Pictures USD bridge for Arnold
• Blender Work in Progress Blender Exporter
• Gaffer USD is available for SceneReader node and SceneWriter node from v0.42.0.0
• Houdini
• Katana
• Maya Autodesk Maya plugin
• Model I/O Apple's Model I/O brings USD to Metal
• Millefiori MPC's USD based Sequence Editor
• Multiverse Scene assembly, set dressing, and inter-op with DCC applications
• nVidia RTX USD is supported for asset interchange on the RTX platform
• OpenWalter Rodeo FX's USD plugin suite for Arnold, Houdini, Katana and Maya.
• SceneKit Apple's SceneKit can read and write USD files for native rendering on all Apple platforms
• SketchUp Dr. Wave's USD Sketchup plugin
• TiltBrush TiltBrush v15 can export USD camera tracks
• Unreal Unreal 4.18 includes a USD importer
• Unity USD SDK Full C# bindings to the USD SDK
• Unity USD SDK Presentation about the Unity USD SDK
• Unity USD SDK Design notes on the Unity USD SDK's API
• Unity USD SDK Details on using the Unity USD SDK
• USD for Unity USD and Alembic importer/exporter plugin for Unity
• USD Qt Luma Pictures has created some reusable Qt widgets to work with USD
• UsdView Live coding Live Coding in USD
• UsdVol for Katana UsdVol to Renderman bridge for Katana

Hydra

• AMD ProRender AMD ProRender raytracing Hydra delegate
• GTC 2015 Jeremy Cowles' GTC2015 presentation introducing Hydra
• Hydra Houdini Dreamworks' Hydra plugin for Houdini
• HydraNSI Usdview Hydra delegate for 3Delight NSI
• Intel hdOSPRay Hydra + Intel's Open-Source OSPRay interactive path tracer
• Switch Victor Yudin has built a game using Hydra as the render engine
• Tutorials Tutorials on using Hydra as a stand-alone render system
• USD-tests Examples for learning USD and Hydra APIs

Samples

• Samples from Pixar Several assets are available for testing here

Building

There are a variety of strategies for building USD.

• Official USD repo The repo includes a robust build script that pulls canonical dependency sources, and can build for all supported platforms.
• USD Build Club This is the most thorough and flexible method for building USD and all its dependencies for macOS and Windows. Dependencies are fetched from canonical sources.
• Ubuntu scripts
• Rez
• RodeoFX's dependency builds Includes tarred sources for USD dependencies at vfxplatform point revisions.

Distros

• macOs, linux, windows nVidia has a distro, and Python3 bindings
• Apple, macOS Apple has a build availble here with USDZ tools
• Docker Container
• Saturn Windows build recipes, and AppVeyor build of binaries.

Syntax Highlighters

• Animal Logic VSCode Highlighting (.usd, .usda, .usdc)
• Animal Logic VSCode Highlighting at VS Marketplace
• Syntax Highlighting for vim, emacs & sublime (.usda)
• Sublime Syntax Highlighter (.usd, .usda)
• Notepad++ Highlighter (.usda)
• PyCharm Plug-in (.usda)
• [JetBrains] (https://github.com/justint/usd-idea) A plugin for JetBrains IDEs; PyCharm, IntelliJ, etc.

Resolvers

• URI resolver by Luma Pictures
• S3 URI resolver Western Digital's S3 asset store resolver
• RodeoFX resolver RodeoFX's Replace Resolver

Contribute

Contributions are welcome - see thecontribution guidelines

License

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