Cute Bifrost USD trick
So, recently I did some research on Maya Bifrost USD nodes and was scouting online resources a lot trying to find bits of information.
And somehow I found absolutely brilliant Bifrost discord server and one guy offered very elegant solution for Maya USD: small Bifrost network that allows you to switch between USD Cache and Maya Reference right from the outliner, using USD Variants.
Original link to this discussion is here: https://discord.com/channels/872260298508222534/1039869295594852453
At the end of discussion Guillaume Laforge shows on how to implement this in Bifrost.
And I decided to create a small proof of concept compound to load any USD/Maya Reference into the Stage with one Bifrost compound, into any custom path.
Here we go:
I need to check if it’s possible to cache from the same menu, then it could be a really cool USD workflow where you can correct things in Maya ref and quickly cache stuff right away, without any additional tools, just with a compound.
Image: if you right-click your USD tree in outliner, you can see there’s 2 Variant Sets, and more representations could be added, like proxy.
