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.

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 
• 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