Andy Beers

June 2024 - December 2024

All Tools Used: C++, USD, CLion

July 2024 - October 2024

Added functionality to a pipeline that given a Unity ShaderGraph Material would convert it to a .mtlx file, load that file into three as three.js nodes, then export those nodes as UsdShade shader prims.

All Tools Used: Unity, C#, three.js, JavaScript, USD, MaterialX

June 2024 - July 2024

Export USDC files in pure JS, inspired by https://github.com/robmcrosby/BlenderUSDZ.

All Tools Used: Python, JavaScript, C++, USD

April 2024 - June 2024

Worked on a number of enhancements to the Autodesk wasm USD fork, to support different features for the ThreeJsRenderDelegate for various purposes, including an active viewer for the ASWF USD Assets Working group.

HTTP USD Asset Resolver
- Created an asset resolver for USD that will fetch assets and relative assets based on a root file
- Link to Code
OpenUSD GeomSubset Support in Wasm
- Autodesk did initial work to create a three.js render delegate, however this did not support displaying geomsubsets properly. I've added some sync code in the sync delegate to allow for correctly rendering geomsubsets.
- Link to Code
- Link to Example

All Tools Used: C++, Emscripten, CLion, Bash, JavaScript, USD

October 2023 - October 2023

Part of MaterialX DevDays 2023, the add node popup needed to be reordered to align with specification documents, starting with Source Nodes, followed by Operator Nodes, organizational and nodegraph-like nodes, and then Shader and Material nodes. Additionally, to group multiple variations of each node type into secondary subgroups to simplify the selection process.
Link to Code

All Tools Used: C++

August 2023 - October 2023

Created a tool that generates an image along each axis for any given USD file, which allows for much faster asset load times in the case of inspecting an asset
Link to Code

All Tools Used: Python, USD

July 2023 - August 2023

All Tools Used: Python, USD

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