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A common USD (Universal Scene Description) plugin for Autodesk Maya
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Add USD Export option to exclude geometry meshes #3406

Open sharktacos opened 1 year ago

sharktacos commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently, geo meshes are always exported. It would be nice to have an option to exclude them from export. Two potential use cases for this are: 1) exporting the materials and bindings, without the meshes. This would be useful when exporting the material portion of a component asset to be layered over the geometry portion. 2) exporting the animated point cache without the meshes. This would likewise be useful to manage the size of animation caches.

Describe the solution you'd like Add the option to exclude geometry/ meshes from the USD export. This should however still include material bindings and animated point data.

Describe alternatives you've considered Currently, we code this with the API. This involves exporting everything and then stripping out the mesh data. Having an option to not write mesh data in the first place would of course be more efficient.

Additional context Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

maya-usd-git-sync[bot] commented 11 months ago

Issue synced internally to EMSUSD-837