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USD Welcome to the Using USD category, a place to ask for support regarding the use of Universal Scene Description. OpenExec Welcome to the Using OpenExec category, a place to ask for support regarding the use of the OpenExec computation framework.. Hydra Welcome to the Hydra category, a place to ask support for use of Hydra rendering abstraction framework. Build and Deployment Welcome to the Build and Deployment category, a place to ask support for building and deploying USD libraries.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Community category Community	4	486	July 28, 2023
Overriding nested references issue / behaviour USD cpp , composition	5	94	November 18, 2025
Rendering Selection Outline in Hydra w/ Storm? Hydra rendering , cpp , usd	2	50	November 18, 2025
USD for Maya and 3ds Max updates [Nov 2025] USD usd	0	24	November 18, 2025
Expectations for PortalLights USD	1	92	November 17, 2025
UsdGeomXformCommonAPI throws Coding Errors due to Attribute Precision USD cpp , composition	2	59	November 17, 2025
Best practices opening UsdStage versus usdview USD	7	391	November 15, 2025
Plugin loading question USD	1	44	November 15, 2025
Scenegraph instancing importing USD	0	37	November 13, 2025
Distributed USD USD rendering	6	189	November 12, 2025
Proposed Changes to CMake Test Registration USD	2	77	November 5, 2025
USD From Metadata (PNG) USD	1	97	November 5, 2025
Binary SDF file size doe not decrease on content removal USD	5	128	November 4, 2025
Confusion about schemas and python bindings Build and Deployment python , schemas	2	102	October 30, 2025
Hydra 2.0 Instance Selection Hydra	0	84	October 29, 2025
Primvars and Relationships Hydra rendering	5	83	October 29, 2025
How to stop _LoadLibModules at runtime Build and Deployment	2	56	October 27, 2025
NURBS and trimming curves USD rendering	1	65	October 27, 2025
Runtime schema registration USD	14	474	October 25, 2025
Cameras - Retimes & Repo's and VFX USD	1	72	October 24, 2025
OpenExec: Is it possible query other prims from within the exec lambda? OpenExec	2	95	October 23, 2025
Are duplicate blendShape tokens allowed? USD	1	49	October 23, 2025
Referencing USD variants with Python in Maya USD	3	106	October 22, 2025
23.08 cannot open the USD files exported with 25.02 USD	2	77	October 21, 2025
Can schemaIdentifier and alias both be optional? USD	2	46	October 18, 2025
OpenExec question: how to compute mesh points? No VtArray allowed OpenExec	4	101	October 17, 2025
Best practices for using USD from a host-agnostic C library (avoiding ABI/version conflicts) USD	0	48	October 16, 2025
Loading MaterialX files in usdview USD	10	353	October 16, 2025
Usdz file is failed loading in iPhone AR viewer USD rendering	7	94	October 15, 2025
Getting custom primvars to work inside materials/shaders USD	5	124	October 15, 2025