
On the releases page are prebuilt versions of the addon. We hope to remove the restriction in the future, but there are a few things preventing this. Additional DocumentationĬurrently, this addon works only with Blender 2.93+ in Windows and Linux. In short, this addon will allow an artist or studio to assembled and compose USD data with Blender data, and render it all using various renderers via Hydra. Importing, exporting and editing materials using ILM's MaterialX standard.Hydra's default Storm delegate (included).

This is a middle layer for renderers, meaning that once a renderer is adapted to Hydra, it can work in many places including this addon for rendering.


Assembling Blender data and USD data to form a complex scene.That USD file can be imported as part of the USD node tree, but not loaded into Blender's memory. Importing USD files into Blender as "references".With Pixar's USD system emerging as a powerful tool for 3D graphics pipelines and interchange, this addon is meant to add first class support for USD and the USD Hydra rendering system to Blender.
