USD White Papers
Most aspects of USD have gone through a collaborative design process, centered around object modeling documents. We provide a selection of those documents here for people looking for deeper understanding of some of the designs, and background on the motivation for some of the decisions.
- 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
