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USD Hydra plugin for Blender v1.0.0 alpha

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This is an alpha release of the Hydra Rendering Addon for Blender.

What this does is gives a way to use Pixar's USD and Hydra system inside of Blender. In particular it gives a few things:

  • A new render engine "USD Hydra". In this render engine you can select installed Hydra Render Delegates (we include the USD GL renderer and our RPR renderer)
  • A USD node tree for assembling USD data in nodes
  • List view of the USD hierarchy
  • Coming soon a conversion from Blender Materials to MaterialX for sharing between renderers. For now we translate Blender "Principled" Shaders to USDPreviewSurface. Lights are translated to USD as well.

This is an early preview, mostly for developers and TD's familiar with USD. We would like help with the material system and using other Render Delegates with this plugin.

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