README

Universal Scene Description (USD) is a system that scalably encodes and interchanges static and time-sampled 3D geometry, shading and lighting data between Digital Content Creation applications. Domain-specific schema modules define the geometry, shading, and lighting encoding atop USD's domain-agnostic core. It provides a low-level data model that supports plugin implementations, and a scenegraph built on top of a multi-threaded "composition engine" for creating complex scenes out of reusable, modular assets.

This package provides the core USD libraries. It does not provide any of the optional plugins or imaging features from the full USD distribution.