Preview geometry dropdown: Sphere / Cube / Cylinder (native prims),
Teapot and Hair (bundled resources/preview/*.usdc - teapot tessellated
from the Newell patch data with the Blinn 1.3x height correction, hair
as 220 procedural B-spline strands), and Cloud Volume (UsdVolVolume
over the OpenVDB bunny_cloud sample, downloaded at CMake configure and
gitignored like the HDRIs). Shapes live under one scope with the
material bound on it; switching activates one shape and reframes the
camera. Missing assets drop out of the dropdown. usdVol added to the
USD link set. The camera starts in a Maya-style 3/4 view.
Node property values switch from Input* fields back to draggable
controls (Ctrl+click to type): live-apply while dragging, one undo
command on release.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Browser column lists all scene materials plus a searchable create-node
list; Show Graph (or double-click) loads a material into the node-graph
work area. The graph shows the entire network including MaterialX
(.mtlx) node graphs, resolving connections through NodeGraph boundaries
via UsdShadeUtils::GetValueProducingAttributes, with layered auto-layout
for nodes lacking authored uiPosition. Canvas navigates viewport-style
(Alt+MMB pan / Alt+RMB zoom) and TAB opens a Nuke-style search popup.
Selecting a node shows a typed property editor (live-apply, one undo
command per edit) and previews that node's output on the shader ball.
The preview renders through its own Hydra engine into a scratch stage
that composes the material via a reference to the source root layer (so
referenced .mtlx materials work), re-renders until progressive delegates
(Arnold/Cycles/Embree) converge, and lights with HDR dome presets
(External/Room/Interior/Sunset; CC0 Poly Haven EXRs fetched at CMake
configure). texture:format is authored latlong explicitly - left
automatic, hdArnold falls back to Arnold's angular fisheye default -
and hdCycles gets a -90 X pole rotation to match Storm's +Y-pole
sampling.
Mutations go through new ICommand subclasses (create shader node,
connect/disconnect attrs). imgui-node-editor is vendored (gitignored)
with a local one-line patch: c_ScrollButtonIndex 1->2 for MMB pan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- TimelinePanel: Playblast button opens modal with output dir (native
folder picker via IFileOpenDialog), custom resolution (HD/FHD/4K
presets), frame range, and movie export toggle
- UsdSceneRenderer: CaptureFrame() reads pixels from resolved MSAA FBO;
Render() stores last dimensions for off-screen re-render at capture res
- MovieEncoder: streams RGBA frames directly into MP4 using libavcodec/
libswscale (H.264, tries libx264 → nvenc → qsv → amf → openh264)
- Application: CapturePlayblastFrame() re-renders at capture resolution
each frame; opens/writes/closes MovieEncoder inline with the render loop
- FileDialog: BrowseFolder() using Vista-style IFileOpenDialog (COM)
- CMake: FindFFmpeg.cmake locates prebuilt BtbN GPL shared package in
third_party/ffmpeg; links and copies DLLs for main and test targets
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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