I sometimes listen in on the Academy Software Foundation (https://www.aswf.io/) sessions. The latest Web OpenUSD online meeting had a presentation by CloudZeta, OpenUSD for 3D Cloud – Content Distribution & Collaboration. 3D assets are large, so having a shared online storage area that 3D creators and consumers can share with web based preview would be … More CloudZeta – GitHub for 3D Assets
I am working on a project where I want to manipulate Skeletal Animation clips (for 3D computer animation) in JavaScript, then export to USD. Depressingly it’s not that hard. Why depressingly? Because I spent a LONG time working out what turns out to be pretty simple code. Luckily I am not BITTER about that at … More Retargeting Skeletal Animation to USD
TL;DR: In this post I explore the pros and cons of using OpenUSD directly in web applications. What is OpenUSD? “Developed by Pixar, Universal Scene Description (USD) is the first open-source software that can robustly and scalably interchange 3D scenes that may be composed of many different assets, sources, and animations, while fostering highly collaborative … More OpenUSD on the Web – October ’23 Musings
I have been exploring NVIDIA Omniverse and the standard it is built on, OpenUSD (aka USD). It provides a number of ways to animate objects in a 3D scene. My personal interest in animation is I am trying to build a tool to simplify assembling your own animated video where the final result is exported … More Options for representing Animation in OpenUSD
I created a scene using NVIDIA Omniverse standard assets. No movement in the trees or grass. Ideally want some wind to give the feeling of movement. Here is the final video. This is for the current Omniverse #StartToFinish community challenge. My process I wanted to animate models (trees, grass, bushes, etc) to get a bit … More Omniverse Start to Finish – Wind Animation
From the NVIDIA website, “NVIDIA Omniverse™ is a computing platform that enables individuals and teams to develop Universal Scene Description-based 3D workflows and applications.” It is based on USD, the file format originally developed by Pixar for their animation projects. For my purposes, it is similar to Unreal Engine and Unity for rendering 3D scenes and … More NVIDIA Omniverse Unity Connector
USD (Universal Scene Description) is an file format originally developed by Pixar for describing 3D scenes. A scene can include a collection of sets, characters, and props. In this blog I give a quick introduction, including how it is used to compose a hierarchy of sequences and shots similar to the Sequences package in Unity. … More Universal Scene Description (USD) format from Pixar
Ever wanted to quickly capture ARKit facial blend shapes for a OpenUSD project? There a number of free tools around, but I wanted to share one I have been working on as part of a larger project. The nice thing is there are zero software installs – it runs in a web browser! Does it … More ARKit Blend Shape Capture for OpenUSD
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