Sidefx Solaris Houdini | Part 1 : USD and Solaris introduction

This is the first part of a tutorial series about Universal Scene Description and Houdini Solaris. Trying here first to introduce some of the USD lingo and see how Houdini/Solaris is using its nodal approach to wrap the USD concepts arounds a category of nodes called “lops“. I usually prefer going through practical exercises than this sort of theoretical demonstration, but USD isn’t the most straightforward thing to pickup and we we need to build up the knowledge from the ground up ! So let’s get started with that =D Mentioned documentation : PIXAR GLOSSARY : SIDEFX GLOSSARY : 00:00 - Introduction 01:30 - Solaris & UI 02:35 - Primitives concept 04:57 - Reference vs Sublayer 11:00 - Purpose concept 13:52 - Merging Primitives 16:21 - SOP import 19:35 - Variants concept 24:40 - “Kind“ defining roles 28:43