Open-source tech converts 3D models, materials and animation data between USD and FBX, glTF, OBJ, PLY and STL formats.
Thursday, March 7th, 2024
Open-source tech converts 3D models, materials and animation data between USD and FBX, glTF, OBJ, PLY and STL formats.
Thursday, March 7th, 2024
Detailed interior scene provides a practical example of production-ready USD data structures for VFX or animation work.
Thursday, February 8th, 2024
Industry body to guide OpenUSD development gets new members, and enters agreement to ensure interoperability with glTF.
Wednesday, December 13th, 2023
Update to the USD integration plugin makes it possible to author, import or export MaterialX materials from 3ds Max.
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
New industry body aims to make USD an international standard for more than just visual effects work.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2023
New features in the USD-native layout and look dev app include shader network transfer to Katana.
Monday, July 24th, 2023
Toolset for authoring USD scenes with the graph editor from Maya's Bifrost plugin now free under an Apache 2.0 licence.
Monday, December 12th, 2022
Third beta of the plugin adds a USD Stage Object for referencing entire USD scenes inside 3ds Max.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
Check out its roadmap for growing USD beyond the movie industry to become the 'foundation of the open metaverse'.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
Updated: ace USD test scene now has 300+ production-quality assets, including two rigged characters.
Friday, August 5th, 2022
Check out the new features in this sizeable update to the USD-native shot layout and look dev solution.
Monday, July 4th, 2022
Free plugin for composing and rendering USD scenes in Blender can now export animated USD files.
Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Download the new USD version of the legendary production data set, optimised to render in RenderMan.
Wednesday, February 16th, 2022