Projects and resources relating to Pixar's Universal Scene Description
This page originated at https://github.com/vfxpro99/usd-resources/blob/master/Readme.md
Contents
Specifications
USD Mime type registration at iana.org
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
- rez-cook Wrapper around rez for one-line builds of USD with any desired dependencies on Windows and Linux
- USD Superbuild
- USDPluginExamples A collection of example USD plugins and plugin build tools.
Distros
Reference
USDZ
Tools
- gltf2usd Convert gltf 2.0 files to USD
- usd_from_gltf Convert gltf to USDZ from Google
- animated cubes script Generate an animated file for testing
- USD Manager USD Manager by Dreamworks (hyperlinked USD file browser/editor with plugin support)
- guc gltf to USD converter with MaterialX support
- xpdToUsd Autodesk Xgen Xpd to Usd conversion tool
System Integrations
- Apple's Finder and Preview application can display USD files natively
- Model I/O Apple's Model I/O brings USD to Metal
- SceneKit Apple's SceneKit can read and write USD files for native rendering on all Apple platforms
- USD Qt Luma Pictures has created some reusable Qt widgets to work with USD
- UsdView Live coding Live Coding in USD
- Windows Explorer Activision has created a deep integration of USD into Windows desktop
Engine Integrations
Science and Research
Hydra
- AMD ProRender AMD ProRender raytracing Hydra delegate
- GTC 2015 Jeremy Cowles' GTC2015 presentation introducing Hydra
- Hydra Cycles Tangent Animation's Hydra plugin for Blender's Cycles renderer
- 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
- Aurora Autodesk's open-source path tracer with Hydra delegate
- 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
Syntax Highlighters
Asset Resolvers
FileFormat plugins
- usdat DreamWorks usd ASCII format with templates. usdat allows the definition of a common template layer for an asset. Properties and references can be defined at asset install time as part of the reference to that asset when it is added to a scene, rather than using a separate composition arc like an override or a variant.
- usdStl An STL file format plugin for USD by Charles Flèche
Houdini Upgrade Guides
Contribute
Contributions are welcome!
License
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