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
- Pipeline & I/O Meetings Overview
- Pipeline & I/O module
- USD project
- #Pipeline & I/O module chat channel
- #USD chat channel
USD
- Jesse committed the support for animated Camera properties on import.
- Jesse has been working to support general UsdPrimvarReaders for material import and export, it is ready for review now.
- USD expectations on how to handle invalid meshes (like faces re-using several times the same vertex) are still unclear.
- Performance: the Parallel Import PR is still WIP.
- The support for new schemas for DomeLights and Shapes is still WIP.
- The conversion of NURBS import code from old-Curve to new-Curves: the pre-requisite PR has been merged, but there are still unclear aspects on USD side. Might still be a target for 4.5.
Regarding update to USD 2025.05 for Blender 4.5, it is now fairly late to request it, and there does not seem to be any critical reason to do so. Jesse will do a final check in the next days.
UFBX Import support.
Aras published a blog post about this. He also has been busy with followups:
- Several bug fixes, still some to be squashed.
- Further improvements in performances (threading etc.).
Indirectly, this FBX thing plus related topics have spawned extra work that somewhat overlaps with animation module. E.g. Aras made a PR to have per-bone viewport display override.
Next Meeting
The next meeting will be on Thursday 22nd May, 17:00 CEST/Amsterdam time (your local time: 2025-05-22T15:00:00Z).
The provisional meeting agenda will be linked in the Pipeline & I/O Meetings Overview thread before the meeting.