- 1. USD Reference Materials
- 1. Pixar's Official Documentation
- 2. Other Useful Pages
- 2. USD Overview
- 1. What Is USD?
- 2. 〇, Advantages of USD
- 1. 1. A General-Purpose 3D Scene File Format
- 2. 2. Composing and Splitting Multiple Files
- 3. 3. Custom Extensibility
- 4. 4. Hydra, a Shared Rendering Foundation
- 3. △, Drawbacks and Things to Watch Out For
- 1. 1. References Are Namespace-Based
- 2. 2. No Built-In Rigging System
- 3. 3. Requires USD Support on the 3D Software Side
- 3. The USD Data Structure
- 1. A Simple USD File Example
- 2. USD Terms and Concepts
- 3. The Basic Object Model
- 4. Composition Arcs
- 1. Local
- 2. Inherits
- 3. VariantSets
- 4. Relocates
- 5. Reference・Payload
- 6. Specializes
- 4. In Closing
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[OpenUSD] USD Basics, Part 1: An Overview and the Data Structure
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2025-12-25

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2025-12-25
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