Autodesk / Autodesk/arnold-usd
Animated transforms not properly backed to its own xform prim path when exporting to USD
- Dominant language
- Python
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- 284
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- 68
- Avg merge
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- 14
Description
**Describe the bug**
If we have animation on parent xforms, but no visible meshes under the parent transfrom node, those transfrom node won't be write to usd xform prim, or instead all animation xfrom data are baked to mesh.



We would like to reference or add more assets into that parent xform to share the animation based on the expored usd stage, but how to do that if animation is not recored in the correct prim path?
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the USD export with animated parent xforms that contain no visible meshes. Verify that each animated parent is written to its own xform prim path rather than baking the animation onto a mesh; the issue provides no source file or test entry point to begin from.
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Assessment
- Domain
- computer-graphics
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100