2025-02-27 Pipeline & I/O Module Meeting

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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

USD

  • Micheal created the 4.5 targets task.
  • Jesse is still working on the Skeleton restpose import.
  • All features from ‘usd’ branch should now be in main.
  • Micheal and Charles cannot currently work much on the USD project in Blender.

Jean-Silas and Charles discuss ideas about how to expose some USD features in UI/UX, e.g. tagging of data, and filtering (in viewing, selection, etc.) based on these meta-data. NOTE: This would not be restricted to USD data.

Other

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be on Thursday 13th March, 17:00 CET/Amsterdam time (your local time: 2025-03-13T16:00:00Z).

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

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Dear developers, when will the UFBX project discussed in the previous meeting be added to Blender?

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This is still being worked on, AFAIK there is no hard release target yet. Getting a matching level of feature support with current python-based importer is not a small task…

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Thank you for your response. Looking forward to the smooth development of this project.

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The UFBX stuff I’ve been working on – well, TBH I haven’t been working on it for almost a month (various reasons: vacation, travels, was sick, was working on something else). But, I’m about to get back to it this week!

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NOICE!

Even though I’m in the process of moving my pipeline over to GLTF, somewhere someone will insist on using FBX and using a battle tested FBX backend that BI don’t need to allocate a huge amount of resources to is a great move.