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First formal USD spec marks a step towards making USD an ISO-ratified cross-industry standard. See what it means for CG software developers.

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025

Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer adds initial support for USD, MaterialX, 3D Gaussian Splatting, and volumes.

Thursday, October 16th, 2025

Big update to the material-authoring software adds new 3D renderer and the option to import entire USD scenes to edit materials in context.

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025

Check out the new features in the GPU renderers, including initial USD support and a complete new animation system.

Monday, December 23rd, 2024

Game engine now imports meshes, materials, lights and animation in USD format, including in the free Community edition.

Monday, December 16th, 2024

Update to the 3D compositing app extends USD and OCIO workflow, and adds new options for toggling between inputs in compositions.

Wednesday, November 13th, 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

Big update to the compositing app adds initial USD support, new Multi-merge tool for layer-based work.

Monday, July 24th, 2023

Modelling, retopology and painting app gets multiresolution sculpting system, better volumetric painting.

Saturday, November 26th, 2022

Third beta of the plugin adds a USD Stage Object for referencing entire USD scenes inside 3ds Max.

Tuesday, November 1st, 2022

Sizeable update to the match-moving app adds USD exporter, better ProRes support, new Rectify Lens Grid tool.

Friday, April 29th, 2022

Material-authoring software gets USD import and export, new nodes to create and render 3D textures.

Wednesday, April 27th, 2022

Activision's neat open-source USD Shell Extension lets you view and edit USD files directly in Windows.

Tuesday, June 15th, 2021