struffel/pixar-usd repository overview

⁠Pixar USD in a Container

This is a containerized version of the Universal Scene Description⁠ toolset developed by Pixar. Official sources for USD do not offer any compiled binaries which makes this container image a quick and easy to use alternative to building the tools yourself. It can also be used for automating workflows. The image is based on Ubuntu:20.04 image and the versioning follows the versioning of USD itself.

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⁠Using this image

This image is publicly available on the Docker Hub⁠ from where it can be pulled using the docker pull command:

# Pull the image
docker pull struffel/pixar-usd:22.03

# Run the image
# (The image starts a shell from which the usd toolkit and python3 can be started.)
docker run -it --rm struffel/pixar-usd:22.03

Documentation on the available tools can be found on Pixar's website⁠.

⁠Flavors

This image comes in different flavors, indicated by the the suffix behind their tag, for example 22.03-usdview. The different flavors come with different configurations of USD:

⁠USDview

The default version of this image does not contain the graphical USDview application. However, there is a separate (experimental) tag with the -usdview suffix which does launching the USDview utility using the usdview command. This may require the use of an external X11 client like vcxsrv⁠. More examples and documentation regarding USDview will follow at a later point.