Time

9AM PST

Agenda

Notes

• USDSkel vs USDHero for video games in next meeting

GDC 

• No one from Santa Monica Studio

• Barry at Siggraph

• Lot of people from Remedy. There will be doing 2 talks

• Talks from Ubisoft Massive

• SideFX will be at GDC and Siggraph (Mark Tucker will try to have a list of talks from GDC)

• Nick Porcino will be around for meet ups

• NVidia will be present

• we can find companies to host viewing party

USDDrinks

• January

• Februrary when Frider will be here (Feb 11th to March 2nd)

Resolution

• Better support and roundabout for GDC and engines for assets

• checking the future of FBX and how integrated it in USD.

  • It is difficult to have a good path forward for USD, What is missing in USD, etc

  • Autodesk is going to winding down the FBX team.

  • Survey was done to see what are the differences between GLTF and Fbx

  • Adobe github has stub for the import from Fbx to USD (https://github.com/adobe/USD-Fileformat-plugins)

• Having very simple example how to organize a simple indie game (resolution 1)

  • How do you play

  • How do you put it in the engine

  • Check Apple's example (https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/samplecode/Fox/Introduction/Intro.html)

    • Sample code: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/samplecode/Fox/FoxBuildingaSceneKitGamewiththeXcodeSceneEditor.zip

  • Complete Example

  • Having it engine agnostic

  • Maybe having an improved USDView 

  • Do we need to rebuild the scene at every frame? The group need to decide)

  • See Physics Example from nvidia.

  • Switch game example : https://github.com/VictorYudin/switch

  • see Kev Kirkland presentation 

    • Kev is going to be working on a sample game over the next few months using OpenUsd, but it's more dogfooding for the engine he is working on.

nVidia at CES

Tangentially related to games, NVIDIA announced during CES the upcoming release of a few RTX Remix projects, including:  

• Portal 2 

• Half-Life 2

• For additional details:  

  • https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/rtx-remix/

  • https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/geforce-rtx-ces-2024-announcements/

Attendance