2024-09-19 Pipeline, Assets & I/O Meeting

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Everyone is welcome on the Google Meet linked below every other Thursday, at 17:00 CEST.

Present: Bastien Montagne, Charles Wardlaw, Jesse Yurkovich, Micheal Kowalski

The meeting covers the pipeline & I/O module in a broader sense, including some topics hosted in other modules (e.g. some I/O python add-ons, or overrides and .blend file I/O from the Core module).

Links

USD

Targets for Blender 4.3

  • Jesse: PointCloud export is essentially ready, should be merged in main in the coming days.
  • Charles: Scale PR to be finished soon. It would be good to have the import one as well. Jesse also notes that there is a recent USD schema proposal to handle a similar issue.
  • The remaining targets are likely to be rescheduled for a later release at that point.
  • Jesse: Has been working on an old Alembic attribute loading patch.

Improved Integration of USD in Blender

See also the synthetic task.

USD Instancing, Collection Import & Beyond

Display and very basic interaction/editing of USD data without actually importing it in Blender.

Charles will check more in details ideas presented at the previous meeting. But in general it seems like they could work well with the current prototype and project design.

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be on Thursday 03rd October, 17:00 CEST/Amsterdam time (your local time: 2024-10-03T15:00:00Z).

The provisional meeting agenda will be linked in the #pipeline-assets-io-module channel before the meeting.

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