Course Outline

Introduction

  • Overview of Pixar USD features and components for government use
  • Understanding the composition of USD for efficient data management

Preparing the Development Environment

  • Building and installing necessary dependencies and components for government systems
  • Setting environment variables for Python to ensure compatibility with government software standards

Authoring USD

  • Creating a USD stage to facilitate structured data representation
  • Creating and editing prims to define basic elements within the stage
  • Referencing layers to manage and organize complex datasets
  • Converting layers into various USD file formats for interoperability in government applications
  • Traversing prims in a stage to navigate and manipulate data efficiently
  • Creating and editing variants to support multiple configurations within the same dataset
  • Applying transformations, animations, layer offsets, and shading to enhance data visualization for government projects

Working with Plugins and Examples

  • Modifying variant examples in Katana to meet specific government requirements
  • Generating USD assets from Maya for use in government simulations and models
  • Modifying USD scenes with Houdini to enhance data accuracy and detail for government applications
  • Setting up and using the Usdview plugin to visualize and validate USD files in a government context
  • Building schema classes to standardize data structures for government use

Troubleshooting

Summary and Conclusion

Requirements

  • An understanding of 3D modeling and production concepts for government projects
  • Experience with Python programming

Audience

  • Design Engineers
  • Architects
  • Developers
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