robp_sidefx
If you have "Flatten Clip Files" disabled (which I appreciate I left enabled in the screenshot & example above), then there shouldn't be any BGEO->USD conversion. You'll end up with a direct link back to the BGEO in your scene.
def Xform "geoclipsequence_noTimeDep" (
clips = {
dictionary default = {
double2[] active = [(1, 0), (2, 1), ...]
asset[] assetPaths = [@../geo/sphere.0001.bgeo@, @../geo/sphere.0002.bgeo@, ...]
thanks, getting closer to understand what is going on here.
But I still need to cache all time samples into memory first (setting the geo clip seq lop to a framerange). So the whole framerange.
Other than writing a python script is there a way to avoid loading those time samples into the stage beforehand?
I am just trying to avoid sitting here and waiting for 500 frames of heavy geometry getting loaded into ram just to be written down into a dictionary inside the usd.
I guess I could come up with and hda/top network where the manifest, topology and reference usd will be written out immediatley after caching out the bgeo files.