.usd format (Universal Scene Description) support.

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Mitsuba 3: A Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer

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.usd format (Universal Scene Description) support. #1194

Closed lastbasket closed 5 months ago

lastbasket commented 5 months ago

Could you add support for Pixar's .usd format? Thanks.

joeylitalien commented 5 months ago

I would strongly recommend you use their Blender add-on to convert USD to Mitsuba XML. My understanding is that scene parsing in Mitsuba is already quite complicated; there's not really a good incentive to have USD support right now.

njroussel commented 5 months ago

Hi @lastbasket

@joeylitalien is correct, we have no plan to support USD -- it doesn't seem worthwhile to us. As he pointed out, the Blender add-on is our only door to external/third-party scene representations.