[Bf-usd] state of development

[Michael A Kowalski]

Hello Dalai, Brecht and everyone,

Thank you very much for facilitating this forum for discussion.  We at NVIDIA are very excited to join this group and work with everyone to help complete the USD integration effort in Blender!

We have been familiarizing ourselves the Blender code base and the current implementation of the USD exporter.  We have also read Brecht's design document regarding collections and have been following the ensuing discussion with much interest.  We will provide feedback to the design proposals in an email to follow.

We are familiar with the USD exporter functionality in the master branch and have read through the related blogs and task descriptions.  However, It would be helpful for us to have a high level snapshot of the current state of USD development in Blender.  Specifically,


  *   In addition to Sybren, Brian Savery and Blazey Floch, who are the developers working on USD support in Blender?
  *   Which features of the USD exporter / importer are currently under development?  Blazey mentioned that Tangent will publish updates to the exporter / importer code soon.  Will these changes eventually be merged with the official Blender?
  *   In addition to the work on collections, have the goals or timeline for the remaining exporter / importer feature extensions been defined yet?

Thank you.

Michael Kowalski

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