ALab with Moonray

[akhil-mitt]

Summary

ALab has USDPreviewSurface materials, intended as a lowest-common-denominator representation. Now that OpenMoonRay has joined the ASWF as a fully open source production renderer, this presents a unique opportunity to create the first fully open source, production-quality material and render translation of the ALab asset.

Motivation

• ALab currently only ships with USDPreviewSurface materials
• OpenMoonRay is now ASWF-hosted, fully open source, and freely available - making it an ideal candidate for
• Would give the community a complete, renderable production asset with no commercial renderer dependency
• Helps validate MoonRay's USD and Hydra delegate (hdMoonRay) against a complex production asset

Proposed Work

• USDPreviewSurface materials rendered in MoonRay
• Validate geometry, instancing and lighting under MoonRay
• Provide reference renders
• Document the translation process and any pipeline notes

References

OpenMoonRay ASWF announcement
OpenMoonRay GitHub