USD Asset Pipeline

When to use

• Catalog USD assets from a folder tree (sizes, shaders, prim counts).
• Replace placeholder geometry (cubes/spheres/bboxes) with real assets.
• Build set-dressed scenes from modular libraries.
• Validate headless rendering compatibility (MDL vs UsdPreviewSurface).
• Cube-prototype to real-asset swap workflows.

Core Concepts

The Placeholder-to-Asset Pipeline

Real-world USD scene building follows this pattern: