A guide to creating USD assets from scratch in Houdini.
The goal is to learn the fundamental building blocks of what makes a fully featured USD asset.
This video is a follow up to LOPs for Solo Artists (https://youtu.be/WfC16LYYIAw?si=Ty0l9HG20OChJA9E), and covers most of the composition arcs I was unable to cover in that video.
00:00 Intro
01:16 Simple Asset
06:51 Asset Layers
08:16 USD File Formats
09:28 Output Processors
11:14 Payloads
14:16 Variant Sets
14:52 Variant Sets: LOD
21:05 Variant Sets: Material
28:15 Variant Sets: Nested
33:30 Inherits
35:18 Layout Asset Gallery
40:19 Outro