[Bf-usd] USD Hydra addon for Blender (published by AMD)

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Brian,

Thanks! I will send people over to check on this :)

BTW: For this list the limit was 400k. Made it 1M, but that's still a 
decent limit for mailing lists imho.

-Ton-
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Ton Roosendaal - ton at blender.org - www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute
Buikslotermeerplein 161, 1025 ET Amsterdam, the Netherlands


On 09/12/2020 01:01, Brian Savery wrote:
> Hello all on this list.  (reposting because apparently the message 
> size is limited with screenshots)
>
> Good timing with the message from Jan and others!  We (AMD) are ready 
> to share for other developers a Hydra rendering addon for Blender!
>
> https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/BlenderUSDHydraAddon
>
> What it does:
>
>   * Allows USD Hydra Render delegates to work inside Blender. 
>     Basically this is a Blender "Render Engine" which exports data to
>     USD and then via Hydra renders with whichever render delegate. (we
>     include the Blender GL and Radeon ProRender hydra delegates but
>     others should work)
>   * Adds a "USD nodetree" which can be substituted for getting the
>     straight scene data from Blender.  This allows assembling USD data
>     via references and rendering that.
>   * Also allows exporting assembled USD tree.
>   * Basic shaders (Principled) and lights are exported to USD
>
>
> Future stuff:
>
>   * Include more render delegates?  Or others to test them
>   * Finish MaterialX work.  Our thought is to translate Cycles shaders
>     to materialX to have something portable that any MaterialX
>     compliant render delegate can use.
>   * Integrate into main Blender code.  We think this is abstract
>     enough to be part of the main blender code but would like feedback
>     first. And maybe setup a USD Working group meeting to discuss how
>     this could work.
>   * Merge with other USD projects
>   * Make work on other os's
>
> Brian
>
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