Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:51:39 UTC No. 879184

I've changed my default desktop to Solaris, and I haven't been tempted to go back to /obj land (aside from doing modeling tasks because SOPs in LOPs is fucking flaky). I love the ability to switch between different LOP branches and completely change all the aspects of a scene. It's a much nicer UI for doing that than say, Takes or Maya's Render Setup. USD instancing is also pretty sweet, as far as doing per instance material overrides. Lighting tools are cool, Component Builder and Variants are cool. I've been enjoying Karma and working with MaterialX.

For better or worse, Solaris doesn't abstract USD concepts away from the user very much. I'm having a hard time coming fully to grips with things like Inherit and Specialize composition arcs. There is just a lot of nuance to the way USD works, it can be confusing at times.

At work we use Maya so I looked into the Autodesk USD plugin to see if it was time for us to start heading in that direction. Sadly, Maya USD is at LEAST two years away from being usable for anything serious, there is too much missing functionality. I also briefly looked into Multiverse, but I didn't like that you can't convert USD back to native Maya geo, the fact that you can't use the Outliner, and the way you're expected to work with materials. I haven't used Omniverse, and would be curious to hear thoughts.

Anyhow, I don't know about game changer, but if you want to author USD, I'm pretty Solaris is the most mature/feature-complete environment at the moment.

Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jan 2022 22:24:40 UTC No. 879248

>>879172
A lot of veteran lads seem to prefer Maya Multiverse.
Any simple Solaris to Eevee or UE4/5 USD workflow for cheap rendering to be had?

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Feb 2022 02:51:48 UTC No. 879285

>>879248
whats the catch to the free version?

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Feb 2022 02:57:09 UTC No. 879289

>>879172
I still have no clue how it work or what are the benefits of USD. I've had clients ask me about it before but I just shrug it off because I really don't feel like learning a whole new way of working

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Feb 2022 03:00:19 UTC No. 879291

>>879289
usd is like someone using github for their programming project versus not using github and crashing and burning miserably

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Feb 2022 03:02:05 UTC No. 879292

>>879291
So USD has versioning, pushing and pulling? Is that it?

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Feb 2022 03:27:42 UTC No. 879294

>>879292
what do you mean "it?"

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Feb 2022 03:43:20 UTC No. 879298

>>879294
It means that I am never using it

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Feb 2022 03:58:58 UTC No. 879303

>>879298
this sounds like something cris would write

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Feb 2022 04:27:32 UTC No. 879307

>>879303
no my name is mildred