Hi. I have some unclarity about Sublayering vs. Referencing vs. Payloading. The general concepts and differences are clear to me. But I have a few things I am confused about… Let’s start with an Asset Component. In the ASWF USD Asset Structure Guidelines there is the following section: Additi…

Hi @adrianmeyerart , there’s alot in there! Regarding subLayering vs referencing, we have a FAQ topic that targets this question precisely! As to why referencing did not seem to be working for you, an example of your referencing structure would be helpful. I am positive that if you make a list of…

Hi @spiff , thanks a lot for the super quick reply! Regarding subLayering vs referencing, thank you for pointing me to the FAQ section. This indeed exactly answers this question and I had overseen it. (maybe worth just copying that section into the mentioned empty ASWF Asset Guidlines section)? A…

[image] adrianmeyerart: Is it correct that it is not possible to “over” anything from a sublayer or ref, over another sublayer or ref, when the “over” prims are behind a payload? (as P is behind L & R in LIVRPS) Okay, I tested a bit regarding the payload questions. My finding was that assump…

THe explanation for the behavior you are seeing is “reference encapsulation”, which, thought of in programming terms, is that LIVRPS is recursive . In other words, when layer_2 and layer_1 are related via referencing, then with respect to layer_1, everything in layer_2’s composed layerStack comes i…

Okay great. Thanks for the detailed reply. Actually the reference encapsulation behavior does sound pretty nice and logic to me and would intuitively speak for composing department layers via referencing and not subLayering to me again. As encapsulated payload arcs and variantSets seem to be more p…

Just to note, the Pixar setup makes no claim at being best :slight_smile: Sublayering the animation caches works well for us because we do a monolithic “shot conversion” process for animation baking, where all shot animation is baked out (and asset managed) at once, regularly. AFAIK, we’re the onl…

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adrianmeyerart (Adrian Meyer) December 17, 2024, 10:42am 8

Thank you.
Yes maybe not “best”. But probably not “that bad” either

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