January 28, 2022

Video Conference Link

Agenda

• Kick-off with introductions

• Set the context & purpose of this group

• Define goals

• Find group chair

• Set meeting schedule and communication channels

• Discuss first steps

Notes

• Member introductions

• Context & purpose of this group

  • the experience of trying to implement schemas for import and export for a specific tool is challenging

  • although schemas are clearly defined it's hard to figure out how to use them in practice

  • build confidence in the universal part of USD when going from one tool to another

• Assets & data

  • where do we land on the asset spectrum: tiny unit tests .. real production assets ? pipeline focused .. production focused?

    • need to be careful not to overlap with ASWF Assets group to much

    • both ends are useful. start with tiny unit tests first?

  • which metadata should be provided?

  • integrate SideFX asset structure guidelines?

  • screenshots of assets?

    • Nvidia and Pixar working on render diff testing framework

  • large production assets (e.g. Moana) interesting to look at but too huge/complex to effectively work with 

    • still useful to replicate "real work messy production assets"

  • stress tests?

• Define goals

  • ideas:

  • provide sample assets for each schema

  • extract assets from ALab

  • have python/c++ scripts to generate alongside with assets to demo how to programatically create files?

  • is it necessary to write a USD spec?

  • write documentation for composition? videos?

  • most companies have done so inernally already

  • tag created assets to make it easier to search them?

• Find group chair
  
  

  • Jeremy Cowles (Unity) kindly volunteered to chair this group.

  • Alexander Schwank (Apple) to step in if Jeremy is unavailable for a meeting.

• Set meeting schedule and communication channels
  
  

  • Meeting scheduled every 4 on Friday at 9am Pacific.

  • Meeting to be added to https://lists.aswf.io/calendar