Introduction to USD
- Getting Help with USD
  - USD Frequently Asked Questions
  - USD Glossary
  - Maximizing USD Performance
- USD Developer API Reference
- USD Toolset
- USD 3rd Party Plugins
  - Alembic USD Plugin
  - Houdini USD Plugins
    - A Tour of USD Houdini Primitives
    - Writing USD from Houdini
  - Katana USD Plugins
  - Maya USD Plugins
  - RenderMan USD Imaging Plugin
- USD Tutorials
  - Hello World - Creating Your First USD Stage
  - Hello World Redux - Using Generic Prims
  - Inspecting and Authoring Properties
  - Referencing Layers
  - Converting Between Layer Formats
  - Traversing a Stage
  - Authoring Variants
  - Variants Example in Katana
  - Transformations, Time-sampled Animation, and Layer Offsets
  - Simple Shading in USD
  - End to End Example
  - Generating New Schema Classes
  - Houdini USD Example Workflow
  - Creating a Usdview Plugin
- Contributing to USD
- USD Contributors
- Press
  - Open Source Announcement
  - Open Source Release
- USD White Papers
  - Adapting UsdLux to Accommodate Geometry Lights
  - Adapting UsdLux to the Needs of Renderers
  - Asset Resolution (Ar) 2.0
  - Coordinate Systems in USD Proposal
  - Generalizing Connectable Nodes Beyond UsdShade
  - Render Settings in USD Proposal
  - Rigid Body Physics in USD Proposal
  - UsdAudio Proposal
  - UsdPreviewSurface Proposal
  - UsdShade Material Assignment
  - Usdz File Format Specification

Maya USD Plugins

The Maya plugin previously distributed with USD has been incorporated into the Autodesk maya-usd repository. The documentation that was previously on this page can be found at https://github.com/Autodesk/maya-usd/tree/dev/plugin/pxr/doc/README.md

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