Time

9AM PST

Agenda

• GDC Roundtables

• Namespace Editing Proposal

• USD Checker follow-up

Notes

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Introduction of Geoff Evans

Geoff is working at nVidia.

He is helping a lot at GDC. He is working for the tools roundtable.
He wants to reach out us to help finding new talks with USD.

Here are some general themes :

• How people integrated USD

• What an ideal integration would look like

Robin-Yann Storm submitted a proposal for an USD rountable : https://academysoftwarefdn.slack.com/archives/C03GKF4DG7K/p1690315552229349?thread_ts=1689142249.186199&cid=C03GKF4DG7K

If there is any new topics, please reach out Geoff Evans

NameSpace Editing proposal

https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD-proposals/tree/main/proposals/namespace_editing

Corey Revilla from Pixar explained the NameSpace Editing proposal.

They wanted to do a proposal based on what worked in Presto.

Feedbacks:

• could we have signals to know what happened:

  • try to have signal in the  API

  • avoid a performance hit

What about the relocate of files?

They will try to have an extensive API.

Moving the layers is not really supported for now.Edit will happen throug h a single layer.

Performance : 

• is there any performance issues?

  • The biggest challenge is the third party librarby usage.

  • The usage of multi threading.

• For a non impacting asset, it will be fast.

Undo/Redo:

• it is something to consider even it is not in the proposal.

• supporting undo/redo is not in the roadmap

• It is more at an application level than at USD level

• Thomas Trently suggested to use the listening. Maybe we could use the SceneDelegate

• see : https://github.com/LumaPictures/usd-qt

Validations follow up

Aaron Luk and Alexander Schwank  are still checking with legal where to put them.

Attendance

•  François Devic, Co-Lead
•  TJ Trently, Co-Lead, Firewalk
•  Alex Schwank - WG Co-chair, Apple
•  Nick Porcino - WG Co-chair, Pixar
•  Michael Min - USD Camera WG, Netflix
•  Roman Zulak - USD on the web WG, NVIDIA
•  Aaron Luk, NVIDIA
•  Adam Harder
•  Alan Blevins, NVIDIA
•  Alessandro Bernardi - Ubisoft - HELIX Studio
•  Alex Gerveshi, AWS
•  Alex Wilkie
•  Alexander Kalyuzhnyy, Wizart Animation
•  Allen Hastings, Foundry
•  Aloys Baillet, Animal Logic
•  Alson Entuna, Crytek
•  Alyssa Reuter
•  Andy Biar, Warner Bros.
•  Ana Gomez
•  Anandhaiyappan, Botvfx
•  Angelo Gabriel Sapaula
•  Anthony Tan, Autodesk
•  Anton Palmqvist
•  Arash Keissami, Nira.app
•  Arielle Martin, Foundry
•  Ashwin Bhat - USD and MaterialX, Autodesk Autodesk 
•  Barry Ruff
•  Ben Chung-Hoon, NVIDIA
  
•  Ben Deniz
•  Bernard Kwok, Autodesk
•  Bill Dwelly
•  Bill Spitzak, Dreamworks Animation
•  Blazej Floch
•  Brian Gyss, 5th Kind
•  Bruno Ebe
•  Bruno Landry (Unity)
•  Carlos Felipe Garcia Murillo
•  Carolin Colón
•  Carson Brownlee, Intel
•  Charleen Chu, SPI
•  Charles Flèche, Ubisoft Montréal
•  Chris King
•  Christopher Lexington
•  Chris Rydalch, SideFX
•  Claire Chen
•  Claire Yb
•  Claude Robillard
•  Connor Smith, Magic Leap
•  Corey Revilla
•  Cory Omand, TWDS/Pixar
•  Curtis Andrus
•  Dan Herman
•  Dan Lee
•  Dan Rolinek
•  Daniel Heckenberg, Animal Logic
•  Daniel Lanner
•  Dave Hale, Riot Games
•  David Aguilar, Walt Disney Animation
•  David Larsson, Adobe
•  Dean Jackson, Apple
•  Deke Kincaid, Digital Domain
•  Dhruv Govil, Apple
•  Divyansh Mishra
•  Domenico Alessi
•  Dominic Couture
•  Doug MacMillan, Tippett Studio
•  Edward Slavin, NVidia
•  Élie Michel
•  Eric Chadwick, Wayfair
•  Eoin Murphy, NVidia
•  Eric Enderton, NVidia
•  Eric Majka, Psyonix/Epic Games
•  Erik Ostsjo
•  Étienne Archambault
•  F. Sebastian Grassia, Pixar
•  Fabrice Macagno, Animal Logic
•  Felix Herbst, Prefrontal Cortex
•  Fernando Leandro
•  Francois Lord, NAD-UQAC / Rodeo FX
•  Frieder Erdmann, Ubisoft Massive
•  Gary Jones, Foundry
•  Geoff Evans, NVIDIA
•  Georgie Challis
•  Gordon Bradley, Autodesk
•  Gordon Cameron, Epic Games
•  Guido Quaroni, Adobe
•  Guillaume Laforge, Autodesk
•  Guy Martin, NVIDIA
•  Hendrik Helpach
•  Henrik Edstrom, Autodesk
•  Henry Vera, DNEG
•  James Pedlingham, Foundry
•  Jason Rosson
•  Jeff Bradley, Dreamworks
•  Jenna Bell, Disney / Invisible Thread
•  Jennifer Horowitz, Maxar
•  Jenny Zhang
•  Jeremiah Zanin, Santa Monica Studio
•  Jeremy Cowles - USD Assets WG Chair, Valve
•  Jerran Schmidt, NVIDIA
•  Jerry Gamache
•  Jesse Barker
•  Jesse Ng, Metropolitan Museum of Art
•  Jessica Wang, Pixar
•  Joe Hultgren 
•  John Burnett, Bonfire Studios
•  John Creighton, Apple
•  John Hood, SPI
•  John Mertic, Linux Foundation
•  Jon Creighton, Apple
•  Jon Wade, Spotify
•  Jonah Friedman, Autodesk
•  Jonathan Gerber
•  Jonathan Stone
•  Jonghwan Hwang
•  Jordan Soles, Rodeo FX
•  Jordan Thistlewood, Epic
•  Joshua Miller
•  Joseph Goldstone
•  JT Nelson, Pasadena Open Source Consortium/SoCal Blender group
•  Julien Dubuisson
•  Kev Kirkland
•  Kevin Bullock
•  Kelvin Chu, Riot Games
•  Kimball Thurston, Weta
•  Koen Vroeijenstijn, Activision / Infinity Ward
•  Kristof Minnaert, Remedy Entertainment
•  Kurtis Schmidt
•  Laura Scholl
•  Larry Gritz, SPI
•  Lee Kerley, SPI
•  Levi Biasco, Santa Monica Studio
•  Louis Marcoux, NVIDIA
•  Lucas Morante, Illusorium
•  Luca Scheller, RiseFX
•  Luiz Kruel, R* NYC
•  Luke Titley
•  Manuel Köster, Crytek
•  Mark Alexander
•  Mark Elendt, SideFX
•  Mark Final, Foundry
•  Mark Masson
•  Mark Manca
•  Mark Sisson
•  Mark Tucker, SideFX
•  Marteinn Oskarsson, Sony Imageworks
•  Martin Karlsson
•  Mathieu Bertrand
•  Mathieu Mazerolle, Foundry
•  Matias Codesal, NVIDIA
•  Matt Johnson, Epic Games
•  Matt Kuruc, NVIDIA
•  Matthew Levine, WDAS
•  Matthew Low, DWA
•  Michael B. Johnson, Apple
•  Michael Blain, Unity
•  Michael Buckley
•  Michael Kass, NVidia
•  Michael Min
•  Mika Vehkala, Remedy Entertainment
•  Mikko Haapoja, Shopify
•  Nat Brown
•  Natasha Tatarchuk, Unity
•  Neil Chodorowski
•  Niall Redmond, Foundry
•  Nicolas Popravka, Soul Machines
•  Nicolas Savva
•  Nishanth Singaraju
•  Oliver Dunn
•  Oscar Sebio, Autodesk
•  Paolo Selva, Weta
•  Paul Baaske, Jellyfish Pictures
•  Paul Molodowitch, NVIDIA
•  Patrick Palmer
•  Peter Arcara
•  Pete Segal
•  Phil Sawicki, NVIDIA
•  Prapanch Swamy, Disney / Invisible Thread
•  Pier Paolo Ciarravano, MPC
•  Pierre-Luc Bruyere
•  Quentin Birrer
•  Ramesh Santhanam
•  Rebecca Hallac
•  Richard Frangenberg
•  Richard Kerris, nVidia
•  Richard Lei, Weta
•  Rob Pieké
•  Rob Stauffer, SideFX
•  Robert Krupa, Elemental Games
•  Robin Rowe, CinePaint
•  Rohit Khonde
•  Rory Woodford, Foundry
•  Ryan Stelzleni
•  Scott Geffert, Metropolitan Museum of Art
•  Scott Keating
•  Sean Looper, AWS
•  Sean McDuffee, Intel
•  Seb Schmidt, Weta
•  Sebastian Herholz, Intel
•  Sebastian Grassia, Pixar
•  Sebastian Rath, Snowtrack Montréal
•  Sebastien Dalgo, Unity
•  Sergei Shaykin, Apple (usdzconvert)
•  Sergio Rojas, Different Dimension
•  Serguei Kalentchouk, Netflix
•  Shane Davis, SideFX
•  Shawn Dunn, Epic Games
•  Simon Haegler, Esri
•  Silvia Palara
•  Sneha Jaikumar
•  Spencer Luebbert
•  Stefan Habel, Foundry
•  Stephan Leroux, Shopify
•  Steve Agland, Animal Logic
•  Steve Hwan, DD
•  Steve LaVietes
•  Steven Anichini, Disbelief
•  Sue Sauer, Sunrise Productions
•  Sylvain Trottier, NVIDIA
•  Thibault Lambert
•  Thomas Chollet
•  Thomas Kumlehn
•  Tiago Carvalho
•  Tim Armstrong
•  Tim Fowler
•  Tzung-da Tsai
•  Vadim Slyusarev
•  Varun Talwar
•  Wayne Wu
•  Will Telford, NVIDIA
•  Xiaoxi Liu, Unity
•  Yassine Mankai
•  YJ Jang