Houdini Solaris | USD Asset Building Part 2

This course will take you through the process of building USD Assets according to the ASWF USD Working Group’s guidelines. Some of the topics covered in this course are: understanding and creating variants, going step-by-step through the asset structure guidelines, learning how to use the Component builder, and working through a practical example of setting up a small scene. The goal for this course is to understand the specifics of USD Assets, and how to properly set their hierarchies for your specific needs. 00:00:00 - 10 | “__class__” Primitive 00:05:30 - 11 | Metadata and Writing 00:14:05 - 12 | Instanced “__class__” Inherits 00:22:57 - 13 | Duplicated “__class__” Inherits 00:27:40 - 14 | Component Builder Basics 00:38:20 - 15 | Component Geometry Variants 00:50:15 - 16 | Component Material Variants 00:59:26 - 17 | Multiple Variant Sets