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Found this on the Lightwave Facebook page. It looks like Vue is being discontinued and the software is now free.

https://www.bentley.com/software/e-on-s ... downloads/

Does OpenBRF not like .obj files exported from trueSpace?

Looks like watchdogs runs twice for strings. For numbers it only runs once.

OpenUSD_Dev07.jpg Alembic file import, twisting cube 4 frames Transformation animations are working. It has 2 forms. One is it imports the animation data and creates keyframes like normal. In the other it will add a script that will read the animation directly from the USD file. This is driven by t...

OpenUSD_Dev06.jpg MaterialX roughness can be seen in the scratches and the color texture was a cheat. Had some luck with MaterialX. It gives the paths to texture files in a really weird way. The color above is really meant to go into a "coating color". I changed it to plain color so I cou...

View from imported camera, lit with imported lights.


This shows light and camera import working and various usd standard materials. MaterialX is still a little bit of a mystery.
I think the next big thing is animation import.

OpenUSD_Dev04.jpg This shows alpha map opacity settings working and normal, metallic and roughness maps. Missing is occlusion maps. I don't have any sample files for that so will be skipping it for a while. OpenUSD has support for MaterialX so I think reading that will be next. Almost half the samp...

"New 3D Sequencer" sounds interesting. I wonder if it works like the Sequencer in Unreal.

Update April 18 2024 DisconnectShaderNodeCrash.jpg Disconnecting a link in a complex material. This is how it looks before trueSpace hangs and then finally crashes. This has been giving me trouble for a long time now. For some things I had to just give up because there were just too many crashes whi...

April 17 2024 Update added the ability to open a floating panel at the mouse location relative to the active window start = "/Scripts/CustomCommands/OpenFloatingPanel/Start" Node.Value(start, "TheNode") = full path to the node Node.Value(start, "AtMouse") = true Activit...