2025-01-16 Pipeline & I/O Meeting

mont29 · January 16, 2025, 8:28pm

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

The scene scaling I/O work has been merged in main.
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.
The PR for scene graph instancing export from Micheal is still being worked on, should be ready for review next week.
Jesse has a PR for the Fix handling of edge crease values in Alembic and USD I/O task. Probably won’t do versioning as a first step, and evaluate how much of an issue this is for users.
Jesse will have a PR soon for multi-threaded USD import.
Jesse is working on support for curves in import.
Jesse created a design task to improve the export support of geometry sets from geometry nodes.

Jesse is working on an initial implementation of the design task for collection import.
Charles will work with Sergey on the initial experimental Hydra rendering integration.

UFBX: Aras keeps working on a protoype based on the design task. Everything seems to work, besides animation.
The test framework discussed last meeting by Aras has been merged in main and is now used by new FBX tests, but also for OBJ, PLY and STL import tests.
- Could add some form of multi-frame dumping to validate non-trivial animations (implicit animation, drivers, geometry caches, etc.)?

The next meeting will be on Thursday 30th January, 17:00 CET/Amsterdam time (your local time: 2025-01-30T16:00:00Z).

The provisional meeting agenda will be linked in the Pipeline & I/O Meetings Overview thread before the meeting.