#usda 1.0
(
"This file describes the USD Shader schemata for code generation."
subLayers = [
@usd/schema.usda@
]
)
over "GLOBAL" (
customData = {
string libraryName = "usdShade"
string libraryPath = "pxr/usd/usdShade"
dictionary libraryTokens = {
dictionary materialBind = {
string doc = """The name of the GeomSubset family used to
identify face subsets defined for the purpose of binding
materials to facesets.
"""
}
dictionary full = {
string doc= """Possible value for 'connectability' metadata on
a UsdShadeInput. When connectability of an input is set to
"full", it implies that it can be connected to any input or
output.
"""
}
dictionary interfaceOnly = {
string doc= """Possible value for 'connectability' metadata on
a UsdShadeInput. It implies that the input can only connect to
a NodeGraph Input (which represents an interface override, not
a render-time dataflow connection), or another Input whose
connectability is also 'interfaceOnly'.
"""
}
dictionary outputs = {
string value = "outputs:"
string doc = """The prefix on shading attributes
denoting an output.
"""
}
dictionary inputs = {
string value = "inputs:"
string doc = """The prefix on shading attributes
denoting an input.
"""
}
}
}
)
{
}
class NodeGraph "NodeGraph" (
inherits =
doc = """A node-graph is a container for shading nodes, as well as other
node-graphs. It has a public input interface and provides a list of public
outputs.
Node Graph Interfaces
One of the most important functions of a node-graph is to host the "interface"
with which clients of already-built shading networks will interact. Please
see \\ref UsdShadeNodeGraph_Interfaces "Interface Inputs" for a detailed
explanation of what the interface provides, and how to construct and
use it, to effectively share/instance shader networks.
Node Graph Outputs
These behave like outputs on a shader and are typically connected to an
output on a shader inside the node-graph.
"""
customData = {
string extraIncludes = '''
#include
#include "pxr/usd/usd/editTarget.h"
#include "pxr/usd/usd/relationship.h"
#include "pxr/usd/usdShade/input.h"
#include "pxr/usd/usdShade/output.h"
#include "pxr/usd/usdShade/shader.h"'''
}
) {
}
class Material "Material" (
inherits =
doc = """A Material provides a container into which multiple "render targets"
can add data that defines a "shading material" for a renderer. Typically
this consists of one or more UsdRelationship properties that target
other prims of type \\em Shader - though a target/client is free to add
any data that is suitable. We strongly advise that all targets
adopt the convention that all properties be prefixed with a namespace
that identifies the target, e.g. "rel ri:surface = ".
## Binding Materials
In the UsdShading model, geometry expresses a binding to a single Material or
to a set of Materials partitioned by UsdGeomSubsets defined beneath the
geometry; it is legal to bind a Material at the root (or other sub-prim) of
a model, and then bind a different Material to individual gprims, but the
meaning of inheritance and "ancestral overriding" of Material bindings is
left to each render-target to determine. Since UsdGeom has no concept of
shading, we provide the API for binding and unbinding geometry on the API
schema UsdShadeMaterialBindingAPI.
## Material Variation
The entire power of USD VariantSets and all the other composition
operators can leveraged when encoding shading variation.
UsdShadeMaterial provides facilities for a particular way of building
"Material variants" in which neither the identity of the Materials themselves
nor the geometry Material-bindings need to change - instead we vary the
targeted networks, interface values, and even parameter values within
a single variantSet.
See \\ref UsdShadeMaterial_Variations "Authoring Material Variations"
for more details.
## Materials Encapsulate their Networks in Namespace
UsdShade requires that all of the shaders that "belong" to the Material
live under the Material in namespace. This supports powerful, easy reuse
of Materials, because it allows us to *reference* a Material from one
asset (the asset might be a library of Materials) into another asset: USD
references compose all descendant prims of the reference target into the
referencer's namespace, which means that all of the referenced Material's
shader networks will come along with the Material. When referenced in this
way, Materials can also be [instanced](http://openusd.org/docs/USD-Glossary.html#USDGlossary-Instancing), for ease of deduplication and compactness.
Finally, Material encapsulation also allows us to
\\ref UsdShadeMaterial_BaseMaterial "specialize" child materials from
parent materials.
"""
customData = {
string extraIncludes = '''
#include "pxr/usd/usd/variantSets.h"
#include "pxr/usd/usdGeom/subset.h"
#include "pxr/usd/usdShade/connectableAPI.h"'''
dictionary schemaTokens = {
dictionary materialVariant = {
string doc = """The variant name of material variation
described on a UsdShadeMaterial.
"""
}
dictionary surface = {
string doc = """Describes the surface output
terminal on a UsdShadeMaterial. It is used to define the
terminal UsdShadeShader describing the surface of a
UsdShadeMaterial.
"""
}
dictionary displacement = {
string doc = """Describes the displacement output
terminal on a UsdShadeMaterial. It is used to define the
terminal UsdShadeShader describing the displacement of a
UsdShadeMaterial.
"""
}
dictionary volume = {
string doc = """Describes the volume output
terminal on a UsdShadeMaterial. It is used to define the
terminal UsdShadeShader describing the volume of a
UsdShadeMaterial.
"""
}
dictionary universalRenderContext = {
string value = ""
string doc = """Possible value for the "renderContext" parameter
in \\ref UsdShadeMaterial_Outputs API. Represents the universal
renderContext. An output with a universal renderContext is
applicable to all possible rendering contexts.
"""
}
}
}
)
{
token outputs:surface (
doc = """Represents the universal "surface" output terminal of a
material."""
displayGroup = "Outputs"
customData = {
string apiName = "surface"
}
)
token outputs:displacement (
doc = """Represents the universal "displacement" output terminal of a
material."""
displayGroup = "Outputs"
customData = {
string apiName = "displacement"
}
)
token outputs:volume (
doc = """Represents the universal "volume" output terminal of a
material."""
displayGroup = "Outputs"
customData = {
string apiName = "volume"
}
)
}
class Shader "Shader" (
inherits =
doc = """Base class for all USD shaders. Shaders are the building blocks
of shading networks. While UsdShadeShader objects are not target specific,
each renderer or application target may derive its own renderer-specific
shader object types from this base, if needed.
Objects of this class generally represent a single shading object, whether
it exists in the target renderer or not. For example, a texture, a fractal,
or a mix node.
The main property of this class is the info:id token, which uniquely
identifies the type of this node. The id resolution into a renderable
shader target is deferred to the consuming application.
The purpose of representing them in Usd is two-fold:
\\li To represent, via "connections" the topology of the shading network
that must be reconstructed in the renderer. Facilities for authoring and
manipulating connections are encapsulated in the Has-A schema
UsdShadeConnectableAPI.
\\li To present a (partial or full) interface of typed input parameters
whose values can be set and overridden in Usd, to be provided later at
render-time as parameter values to the actual render shader objects. Shader
input parameters are encapsulated in the property schema UsdShadeInput.
"""
customData = {
string extraIncludes = '''
#include "pxr/usd/usdShade/input.h"
#include "pxr/usd/usdShade/output.h"
#include "pxr/usd/ndr/declare.h"
#include "pxr/usd/sdr/shaderNode.h"'''
dictionary schemaTokens = {
dictionary universalSourceType = {
string value = ""
string doc = """Possible value for the "sourceType" parameter
in \\ref UsdShadeShader_ImplementationSource API. Represents
the universal or fallback source type.
"""
}
dictionary sdrMetadata = {
string doc = """Dictionary valued metadata key authored on
Shader prims with implementationSource value of sourceAsset or
sourceCode to pass along metadata to the shader parser or
compiler. It is also used to author metadata on shader
properties in a UsdShade-based shader definition file.
"""
}
dictionary subIdentifier = {
string doc = """This identifier is used in conjunction with a
specific source asset to indicate a particular definition within
the source asset, if the source asset specifies more than one
shader node definition.
"""
}
}
}
) {
uniform token info:implementationSource = "id" (
allowedTokens = ["id", "sourceAsset", "sourceCode"]
doc = """Specifies the attribute that should be consulted to get the
shader's implementation or its source code.
* If set to "id", the "info:id" attribute's value is used to
determine the shader source from the shader registry.
* If set to "sourceAsset", the resolved value of the "info:sourceAsset"
attribute corresponding to the desired implementation (or source-type)
is used to locate the shader source. A source asset file may also
specify multiple shader definitions, so there is an optional attribute
"info:sourceAsset:subIdentifier" whose value should be used to indicate
a particular shader definition from a source asset file.
* If set to "sourceCode", the value of "info:sourceCode" attribute
corresponding to the desired implementation (or source type) is used as
the shader source.
"""
customData = {
string apiName = "implementationSource"
}
)
uniform token info:id (
doc = """The id is an identifier for the type or purpose of the
shader. E.g.: Texture or FractalFloat.
The use of this id will depend on the render target: some will turn it
into an actual shader path, some will use it to generate shader source
code dynamically.
\\sa SetShaderId()
"""
customData = {
string apiName = "id"
}
)
}
class "ConnectableAPI"
(
inherits =
doc = """UsdShadeConnectableAPI is an API schema that provides a common
interface for creating outputs and making connections between shading
parameters and outputs. The interface is common to all UsdShade schemas
that support Inputs and Outputs, which currently includes UsdShadeShader,
UsdShadeNodeGraph, and UsdShadeMaterial .
One can construct a UsdShadeConnectableAPI directly from a UsdPrim, or
from objects of any of the schema classes listed above. If it seems
onerous to need to construct a secondary schema object to interact with
Inputs and Outputs, keep in mind that any function whose purpose is either
to walk material/shader networks via their connections, or to create such
networks, can typically be written entirely in terms of
UsdShadeConnectableAPI objects, without needing to care what the underlying
prim type is.
Additionally, the most common UsdShadeConnectableAPI behaviors
(creating Inputs and Outputs, and making connections) are wrapped as
convenience methods on the prim schema classes (creation) and
UsdShadeInput and UsdShadeOutput.
"""
customData = {
token apiSchemaType = "nonApplied"
string extraIncludes = """
#include "pxr/usd/usdShade/shader.h"
#include "pxr/usd/usdShade/nodeGraph.h"
"""
}
)
{
}
class "MaterialBindingAPI"
(
inherits =
doc = """UsdShadeMaterialBindingAPI is an API schema that provides an
interface for binding materials to prims or collections of prims
(represented by UsdCollectionAPI objects).
In the USD shading model, each renderable gprim computes a single
resolved Material that will be used to shade the gprim (exceptions,
of course, for gprims that possess UsdGeomSubsets, as each subset can be
shaded by a different Material). A gprim and each of its ancestor
prims can possess, through the MaterialBindingAPI, both a
direct binding to a Material, and any number of
collection-based bindings to Materials; each binding can be generic
or declared for a particular purpose, and given a specific binding
strength. It is the process of "material resolution" (see
\\ref UsdShadeMaterialBindingAPI_MaterialResolution) that examines all of
these bindings, and selects the one Material that best matches the
client's needs.
The intent of purpose is that each gprim should be able to resolve a
Material for any given purpose, which implies it can have differently bound
materials for different purposes. There are two special values of
purpose defined in UsdShade, although the API fully supports
specifying arbitrary values for it, for the sake of extensibility:
- UsdShadeTokens->full: to be used when the purpose of the
render is entirely to visualize the truest representation of a scene,
considering all lighting and material information, at highest fidelity.
- UsdShadeTokens->preview: to be used when the render is in
service of a goal other than a high fidelity "full" render (such as scene
manipulation, modeling, or realtime playback). Latency and speed are
generally of greater concern for preview renders, therefore preview
materials are generally designed to be "lighterweight" compared to full
materials.
A binding can also have no specific purpose at all, in which
case, it is considered to be the fallback or all-purpose binding (denoted
by the empty-valued token UsdShadeTokens->allPurpose).
The purpose of a material binding is encoded in the name of the
binding relationship.
-
In the case of a direct binding, the allPurpose binding is
represented by the relationship named "material:binding".
Special-purpose direct bindings are represented by relationships named
"material:binding:purpose. A direct binding relationship
must have a single target path that points to a UsdShadeMaterial.
-
In the case of a collection-based binding, the allPurpose binding is
represented by a relationship named
"material:binding:collection:bindingName", where
bindingName establishes an identity for the binding that is unique
on the prim. Attempting to establish two collection bindings of the same
name on the same prim will result in the first binding simply being
overridden. A special-purpose collection-based binding is represented by a
relationship named "material:binding:collection:purpose:bindingName".
A collection-based binding relationship must have exacly two targets, one of
which should be a collection-path (see
\ref UsdCollectionAPI::GetCollectionPath()) and the other should point to a
UsdShadeMaterial. In the future, we may allow a single collection
binding to target multiple collections, if we can establish a reasonable
round-tripping pattern for applications that only allow a single collection
to be associated with each Material.
Note: Both bindingName and purpose must be
non-namespaced tokens. This allows us to know the role of a binding
relationship simply from the number of tokens in it.
- Two tokens: the fallback, "all purpose", direct binding,
material:binding
- Three tokens: a purpose-restricted, direct, fallback binding,
e.g. material:binding:preview
- Four tokens: an all-purpose, collection-based binding, e.g.
material:binding:collection:metalBits
- Five tokens: a purpose-restricted, collection-based binding,
e.g. material:binding:collection:full:metalBits
A binding-strength value is used to specify whether a binding
authored on a prim should be weaker or stronger than bindings that appear
lower in namespace. We encode the binding strength with as token-valued
metadata 'bindMaterialAs' for future flexibility, even though for
now, there are only two possible values:
UsdShadeTokens->weakerThanDescendants and
UsdShadeTokens->strongerThanDescendants. When binding-strength is
not authored (i.e. empty) on a binding-relationship, the default behavior
matches UsdShadeTokens->weakerThanDescendants.
\\note If a material binding relationship is a built-in property defined as
part of a typed prim's schema, a fallback value should not be provided for
it. This is because the "material resolution" algorithm only conisders
authored properties.
"""
customData = {
string extraIncludes = """
#include "pxr/usd/usd/collectionAPI.h"
#include "pxr/usd/usdGeom/subset.h"
#include "pxr/usd/usdShade/material.h"
#include """
dictionary schemaTokens = {
dictionary materialBinding = {
string value = "material:binding"
string doc = """
The relationship name on non-shading prims to
denote a binding to a UsdShadeMaterial.
"""
}
dictionary materialBindingCollection = {
string value = "material:binding:collection"
string doc = """
The relationship name on non-shading prims to
denote a collection-based binding to a UsdShadeMaterial.
"""
}
dictionary allPurpose = {
string value = ""
string doc = """Possible value for the 'materialPurpose' parameter
in the various methods available in UsdShadeMaterialBindingAPI.
Its value is empty and its purpose is to represent a general
purpose material-binding that applies in the absence of a
specific-purpose binding.
"""
}
dictionary preview = {
string doc = """Possible value for the 'materialPurpose'
parameter in UsdShadeMaterialBindingAPI, to be used when the
render is in service of a goal other than a high fidelity "full"
render (such as scene manipulation, modeling, or realtime
playback). Latency and speed are generally of greater concern
for preview renders, therefore preview materials are generally
designed to be "lighterweight" compared to full materials.
"""
}
dictionary full = {
string doc= """Possible value for the 'materialPurpose'
parameter in UsdShadeMaterialBindingAPI, to be used when the
purpose of the render is entirely about visualizing the truest
representation of a scene, considering all lighting and material
information, at highest fidelity.
"""
}
dictionary bindMaterialAs = {
string doc = """Token valued metadata key authored on a material
binding relationship to indicate the strength of the binding
relative to bindings authored on descendants.
"""
}
dictionary weakerThanDescendants = {
string doc = """Possible value for 'bindMaterialAs' metadata on the
collection-based material binding relationship. Indicates
that the binding represented by the relationship is weaker than
any bindings authored on the descendants."""
}
dictionary strongerThanDescendants = {
string doc = """Possible value for 'bindMaterialAs' metadata on the
collection-based material binding relationship. Indicates
that the binding represented by the relationship is stronger than
any bindings authored on the descendants."""
}
dictionary fallbackStrength = {
string doc = """Sentinal value to be used for 'bindMaterialAs'
metadata's default value. Clients should pass this in for the
'bindingStrength' argument to UsdShadeMaterialBindingAPI::Bind(),
if they want to author the default value (weakerThanDescendants)
sparsely. The value "fallbackStrength" never gets authored
into scene description."""
}
}
}
)
{
}
class "CoordSysAPI"
(
inherits =
doc = """UsdShadeCoordSysAPI provides a way to designate, name,
and discover coordinate systems.
Coordinate systems are implicitly established by UsdGeomXformable
prims, using their local space. That coordinate system may be
bound (i.e., named) from another prim. The binding is encoded
as a single-target relationship in the "coordSys:" namespace.
Coordinate system bindings apply to descendants of the prim
where the binding is expressed, but names may be re-bound by
descendant prims.
Named coordinate systems are useful in shading workflows.
An example is projection paint, which projects a texture
from a certain view (the paint coordinate system). Using
the paint coordinate frame avoids the need to assign a UV
set to the object, and can be a concise way to project
paint across a collection of objects with a single shared
paint coordinate system.
This is a non-applied API schema.
"""
customData = {
token apiSchemaType = "nonApplied"
string extraIncludes = '''
#include "pxr/usd/usdGeom/xformable.h"'''
dictionary schemaTokens = {
dictionary coordSys = {
string value = "coordSys:"
string doc = """Namespace prefix for relationships that
bind coordinate systems."""
}
}
}
)
{
}