Time

9AM PST

Agenda

• Back from GDC (with @Geoff Evans)

• Back from the Pipeline Conference (Thanks @Phil Sawicki)

• USDrink in Montreal (Yeah @Arnaud Grosjean)

• Update on formal work product presentation - Primal Cube (Ohlala @Thomas Trently)

• Validation framework feedback / discussion

GDC

• 2 lectures in USD from Remedy

  • Primer of USD concept. Bnch of examples of LVRPS, schemas, etc.. Demonstrate NothernLight Editor. How to use non destructive way of editing. Usgae of Opinions. Overview of the USD in the pipeline.

  • Seb's talk about how their game engine architecture. How to make their edit in the game engine the more runtime possible

• Roundtable about USD from Robyn Yann

  • Non destructive Editing

  • How people are using USD (Export format, Exchange format)

  • Successful roundtable

If there is a talk for USD, reach Geoff out.
Hoping to put the tools Summit back in 2025

The Pipeline Conference

• From Ubisoft:

  • Later on Youtube

  • How they are doing asset resolving

  • workflow

  • Game asset library

  • Custom engines : Anvil, SnowDrop

  • LOD Proposal

GTC

OpenUSD Day

Moment Factory presentation

USD Drink

Just a friendly reminder that you are invited to join us tonight for the 3rd Edition of our USDrink + talks formula!
USDrink brings together professionals and enthusiasts in Montréal for insightful discussions on OpenUSD, interoperability, and pipeline strategies.
:microphone: Agenda
5:30 pm: Nick Porcino (Pixar & AOUSD) - AOUSD progress, FBX/glTF interoperability, and USD proposals tips.
6:00 pm: Louis Marcoux (NVIDIA) - OpenUSD pipeline in Audio2Face.
6:30 pm: Guillaume Laforge (Autodesk) - Latest updates in Bifrost USD toolbox.
:round_pushpin: Venue
Moment Factory, 6250 av Parc, Montréal QC. Look for room 22 straight down the corridor on your left.
Doors open at 5 pm.

Complex attribute data in USD (Levi/Jeremiah, Matthew Kuruc)

Santa Monica Studio's question: Has anybody had further considered complex/compound attributes (effectively structs) in USD since the last time it was brought up?

• Didn't seem like anybody had pursued this idea further.

Santa Monica Studio's use case is that we have their own description of data classes that can nest structs, and they'd like to represent those in some way in USD.

• Especially since we automate creating schemas from these data classes.

they wondered whether USD could be extensible for attributes like it is for other things.

• Levi Biasco believes Matthew Kuruc noted that there are potential issues when it comes to serialization and interpolation

Matthew Kuruc offered some suggestions with existing USD tech:

• These structs could be represented as multiple-apply schemas that get added to the original classes.

  • Santa Monica Studio considered this, but it falls apart with nested structs.

• A new attribute type called "group" whose purpose is to indicate which other attributes under a prim that are relevant to each other.

  • Santa Monica Studio haven't looked into this as much, but this may be difficult to have work with preexisting structs like a multiple-apply schema could.

Attendance