Everyone is welcome on the Google Meet linked below every other Thursday, at 17:00 CEST.
Present:
The meeting covers the Pipeline & I/O module topics (USD integration, other external fileformats support…).
Links
- Google Meet
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- Pipeline & I/O module
- USD project
- #Pipeline & I/O module chat channel
- #USD chat channel
USD
4.4 Targets
- Scene scaling I/O: Charles and Micheal had some time to work on the PR, should land soon.
- Jesse has been working on a WIP implementation for the Mesh Sequence Cache design, has published a WIP PR, Bastien still need to check it.
- Micheal created a PR for scene graph instancing export, somewhat an alternative solution to the other PR. Might go first with Micheal’s PR (coming from the
usdbranch). - Michael finished and merged the PR for a new hook on material import.
- Jesse keeps updating the manual for IO USD options.
- Jesse will work on the new Fix handling of edge crease values in Alembic and USD I/O task.
More threading in USD import code
Jesse working on threading armature and image IDs creation in USD import job.
Collection Import/Instancing
- Bastien wrote an initial design task for collection import.
- Also related (for later targets) to the virtual library design.
Other
- UFBX: Aras worked on a prototype based on the design task.
- Testing: Aras created a ‘Blender scene text export’ tool, allowing to store the expected result (‘blender data state’) of an import together with the source FBX/OBJ/USD/etc. file. Similar in principle to the reference result images used for render tests. He will keep working on it to convert some existing testings for e.g. OBJ, PLY, STL format to this new system.
Next Meeting
The next meeting will be on Thursday 16th January, 17:00 CET/Amsterdam time (your local time: 2025-01-16T16:00:00Z).
The provisional meeting agenda will be linked in the #pipeline-io-module channel before the meeting.