We are excited to announce that the latest Blender Alpha with enhanced USD support is now on the Omniverse Launcher! A new feature in this release is support for importing static USD point instances, such as the buildings in the “City Set” sample asset (available from the OpenUSD downloads page):
(Importing animated point instances and exporting point instances are features currently under development which will be available in a future release.)
Additional changes include:
- Improvements in MDL and UsdPreviewSurface material IO
- Support for automatically exporting names with non-ASCII characters as USD “display names”
- Optionally author subdivision schema on export
- Support user-defined custom Python callbacks to modify the USD stage on import
Please see the release notes for a complete list of updates, improvements and bug fixes in this version.