Matt Tillman

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obj-image Intermediate
Building USD Assets In LOPs
obj-image Intermediate
LOPs for Solo Artists
obj-image Intermediate
Building Components in SOPs: Hierarchies and KineFX

Recent Forum Posts

Building USD Assets in LOPs Aug. 8, 2025, 12:16 a.m.

New USD/LOPs tutorial for anyone interested in asset authoring and composition arcs.
Basically an in-depth explanation of what the component builder nodes do under the hood with some tips and tricks sprinkled in.

Is there a handy way to provide tile files to itilestitch? July 22, 2025, 1:45 a.m.

For anyone on Windows here's how I did in a powershell terminal:
itilestitch output.exr @(Get-Item *tile* | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name)

MDL shaders support in Karma June 26, 2025, 6:50 p.m.

I came across the same issue recently with Evermotion MDLs.

Here's a quick script that converts them to USDs:
https://github.com/pixel-ninja/mdl_to_usd [github.com]

Note that it probably won't work on anything other than the Evermotion materials as it's hardcoded to look for that formatting.