Houdini Solaris | USD Asset Building Part 1

This course will take you through the process of building USD Assets according to the ASWF USD Working Group’s guidelines. Some of the topics covered in this course are: understanding and creating variants, going step-by-step through the asset structure guidelines, learning how to use the Component builder, and working through a practical example of setting up a small scene. The goal for this course is to understand the specifics of USD Assets, and how to properly set their hierarchies for your specific needs. 00:00:00 - 1 | Introduction 00:00:35 - 2 | Intro to Variants 00:05:15 - 3 | Create LOD 00:11:50 - 4 | Variant Setup 00:22:22 - 5 | Distance-based LOD 00:29:45 - 6 | Asset Structure Guidelines 00:40:48 - 7 | Geo Setup 00:51:40 - 8 | Material Setup 00:57:09 - 9 | Creating a Payload