Exporting with references not available?

[Mikooman]

Hey everyone,

I am currently testing out the export functionality and was wondering if there is the possibility to export a scene and setup some of the children as references? What I mean is, let's say I have a gameobject that I want to export that looks like this:

• Cube
• -Sphere
• -Sphere

Is there a chance to export the whole gameobject in a way, that the created usd file references the spheres as new usd files, instead of creating the meshes directly in only one file?

So the resulting usd file would look something like this:

#usda 1.0

def "GameObject" (
    kind = "gameobject"
)
{
    def Xform "Cube"
    (
        prepend references = @./path/to/Cube.usd@
    )
    {
        #Transform
        matrix4d xformOp:transform = ( (1, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 0, 0), (0, 0, 1, 0), (0, 0, 0, 1) )
        uniform token[] xformOpOrder = ["xformOp:transform"]

        def Xform "Sphere1"
        (
            prepend references = @./path/to/Sphere1.usd@
        )
        {
            #Transform
            matrix4d xformOp:transform = ( (1, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 0, 0), (0, 0, 1, 0), (1, 0, 0, 1) )
            uniform token[] xformOpOrder = ["xformOp:transform"]
        }

        def Xform "Sphere2"
        (
            prepend references = @./path/to/Sphere2.usd@
        )
        {
            #Transform
            matrix4d xformOp:transform = ( (1, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 0, 0), (0, 0, 1, 0), (-1, 0, 0, 1) )
            uniform token[] xformOpOrder = ["xformOp:transform"]
        }
    }
}

And it then creates the referenced usd files as separate files, defining the cube/spheres.

Thanks for your support

[vickycl]

Hey @Mikooman, this isn't something we currently support. It's a great question though, and I'll mark it as an enhancement for planning future export features :)

[vickycl]

Hey! We've moved this feature request to our Roadmap for better internal visibility. If you head over to the Roadmap you can add more detail about your use case (on the 'USD Import ticket') for this feature to help us prioritize as we hope to be able to work on this in the future :)