Alias 100.1.88

Added

Static export with Nucleus support

With the Alias Connector, content can be exported as USD layers composed in a root assembly file.

Tessellation and export of all surfaces

All surfaces in the Object Lister that are sorted e.g. by Layer, are tessellated and exported to USD. During export the visibility attribute of layers and objects is translated to USD and basic symmetry with the default symmetry plane is supported.

Preservation of object hierarchy and layers for translation to USD

The resulting hierarchy in USD is a close mapping to the layer view in the Alias Object Lister.

Basic material mapping of Alias materials

Standard materials in Alias are assigned to MDL materials in Omniverse, because materials in MDL format are not yet available in Alias.

Basic support of Alias lights

Available lights in Alias are converted to Omniverse lights.

Known Limitations

Alias version 2021 and lower are not supported with this beta version.

Tessellation performance has been implemented as a Beta level feature in the Alias Connector. There is a known weakness where exporting data from Alias takes longer time. This can occur when exporting very large and complex Alias structures to USD. A performance improvement is in the works for a future version of the connector.

Names in USD may only contain alphanumeric characters and “_” [underscore], therefore all other special characters and umlauts are replaced by their hexadecimal representation.