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[OpenUSD] USD Basics, Part 1: An Overview and the Data Structure

USDPythonPixar
2025-12-25

  1. 1. USD Reference Materials
  2. 1. Pixar's Official Documentation
  3. 2. Other Useful Pages
  4. 2. USD Overview
  5. 1. What Is USD?
  6. 2. 〇, Advantages of USD
  7. 1. 1. A General-Purpose 3D Scene File Format
  8. 2. 2. Composing and Splitting Multiple Files
  9. 3. 3. Custom Extensibility
  10. 4. 4. Hydra, a Shared Rendering Foundation
  11. 3. △, Drawbacks and Things to Watch Out For
  12. 1. 1. References Are Namespace-Based
  13. 2. 2. No Built-In Rigging System
  14. 3. 3. Requires USD Support on the 3D Software Side
  15. 3. The USD Data Structure
  16. 1. A Simple USD File Example
  17. 2. USD Terms and Concepts
  18. 3. The Basic Object Model
  19. 4. Composition Arcs
  20. 1. Local
  21. 2. Inherits
  22. 3. VariantSets
  23. 4. Relocates
  24. 5. Reference・Payload
  25. 6. Specializes
  26. 4. In Closing

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2025-12-25
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