USD Collection Property Widget extension

daryl.dunlap.ohio · December 16, 2022, 10:53pm

It doesnt look like this extension is working at all in Create 2022.3.1

When I select a Collection, the property window doesnt give me anyway to maintain the collection.

…I’m expecting something similar to this:

mati-nvidia · December 19, 2022, 5:21pm

Hi @daryl.dunlap.ohio. Thanks for reporting this. It’s an easy repro. I’ll let the dev team know.

mati-nvidia · December 19, 2022, 5:29pm

Created OM-77090.

daryl.dunlap.ohio · December 20, 2022, 12:32am

Thanks, but, in comparison to Houdini - shouldn’t authoring a collection create a prim on the stage as well?

mati-nvidia · December 21, 2022, 5:37pm

I can’t comment on Houdini, but looking at the USDA, it looks like a collection is just an apiSchema that can be applied to any existing prim. I personally think the different UX makes sense. I’ll share this feedback with the dev team though.

daryl.dunlap.ohio · December 21, 2022, 10:33pm

Yes, but, since Collections persist with the Stage, it kinda makes UX sense that they are listed as a Stage member - even though they are a “special” kind of prim.

Thanks man.

daryl.dunlap.ohio · January 14, 2023, 7:50pm

Just to further clarify - in Houdini the authoring of a Collection creates a Prim on the stage (so that the Collection can be selected as the target for some operation). Houdini has a similar separate window for managing the contents of a Collection, but without a Stage Prim, I’m not sure how to even consume a Collection in Omniverse?