Time

9AM PST

Agenda

• GDC Roundtables

• Namespace Editing Proposal

• USD Checker follow-up

Notes

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.

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