Questions about ufe

[ckingT5S5B]

Hi, I'm just starting to get into building pipeline tools around USD in Maya.

I was looking at the release notes for Maya 2022 and I see quite a number of references to "ufe". However, searching in the documentation or searching via google doesn't find anything that tells me what it is. What is it?

On this page:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2022/ENU/Maya-USD...

There is a reference to UFE 2.0 API documentation but this link is broken and I can find any references to UFE API anywhere else in the documentation or via a google search.

There are several release notes that the python APIs for various functions have changed to take UFE aware paths. What is a UFE aware path?

Thanks,

Chris King

Spire Animation Studios 

[ckingT5S5B]

Hi, I'm just starting to get into building pipeline tools around USD in Maya.

I was looking at the release notes for Maya 2022 and I see quite a number of references to "ufe". However, searching in the documentation or searching via google doesn't find anything that tells me what it is. What is it?

On this page:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2022/ENU/Maya-USD...

There is a reference to UFE 2.0 API documentation but this link is broken and I can find any references to UFE API anywhere else in the documentation or via a google search.

There are several release notes that the python APIs for various functions have changed to take UFE aware paths. What is a UFE aware path?

Thanks,

Chris King

Spire Animation Studios 

[Kahylan]

Hi!

ufe is part of the mayaUSD library. As far as I know it helps with importing USD Transforms.
It's kind of hard to explain, especially since I never really worked with it. I only saw presentations about the use of USD in Maya so far.
Like this one for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-w0BktAA-0

Also here is the git repository of ufe, maybe that helps:

https://github.com/Autodesk/maya-usd/tree/dev/lib/mayaUsd/ufe

Like I said, I only have second hand information about USD, but its supposedly a plugin that makes data sharing between programs a lot easier.

I hope this helps and maybe someone can explain it a bit better^^

[Kahylan]

Hi!

ufe is part of the mayaUSD library. As far as I know it helps with importing USD Transforms.
It's kind of hard to explain, especially since I never really worked with it. I only saw presentations about the use of USD in Maya so far.
Like this one for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-w0BktAA-0

Also here is the git repository of ufe, maybe that helps:

https://github.com/Autodesk/maya-usd/tree/dev/lib/mayaUsd/ufe

Like I said, I only have second hand information about USD, but its supposedly a plugin that makes data sharing between programs a lot easier.

I hope this helps and maybe someone can explain it a bit better^^

[ckingT5S5B]

I found a conversation on a discord discussion that said this:

The Maya 2022 Devkit has quite thorough documentation for UFE, hidden in devkitBase/devkit/ufe/sdk-doc.zip https://t.co/TvaFZ4bQDw #maya #techArt #usd #ufe https://t.co/BlmRbO5AES

So I went looking for the dev kit. I got to this page:

https://github.com/sonictk/Maya-devkit

I clicked on the link to download the windows version and got this message:

This app is currently unreachable or unpublished.

Hmm...

[ckingT5S5B]

I found a conversation on a discord discussion that said this:

The Maya 2022 Devkit has quite thorough documentation for UFE, hidden in devkitBase/devkit/ufe/sdk-doc.zip https://t.co/TvaFZ4bQDw #maya #techArt #usd #ufe https://t.co/BlmRbO5AES

So I went looking for the dev kit. I got to this page:

https://github.com/sonictk/Maya-devkit

I clicked on the link to download the windows version and got this message:

This app is currently unreachable or unpublished.

Hmm...

[pierre.baillargeon · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

Here is a link to the UFe 2.0 documentation: https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2022/ENU/?guid=Maya_SDK_ufe_ref_index_html

Sorry for the bad link in the USD page you referred to.

[pierre.baillargeon · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

Here is a link to the UFe 2.0 documentation: https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2022/ENU/?guid=Maya_SDK_ufe_ref_index_html

Sorry for the bad link in the USD page you referred to.