Hi,

What's a good way of bringing USD transforms into a CHOP network? Off the top of my head, pulling USD into SOPs and then extracting the xforms from there. Is that the best way?

Cheers,
Jon

alternatively, since usd functions can now directly reference LOP nodes it should be possible to lookup those transform values directly within Channel Wrangle, I haven't tried though, so not sure which approach is better/faster

Houdini 18.5.269 USD VEX functions can now reference LOP nodes and disk files. Fri. July 10, 2020

There's the lopimport object that could be referenced with an object chop, that's probably the least big-brain way to do it.

Thanks! lopimport… I guess that's been there since 18 and I never noticed it…

But now I'm tempted to wrap the USD VEX functions into “lopimport” CHOP OTL nodes. Worth a try. Thanks Tomas.