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One thing I've been wondering as I continue the learning journey is what are people's general preferred workflow? working as a freelancer or small studio with a relatively simple pipeline. This is specifically related to building the rendering/lookdev pipeline on Solaris/Karma XPU.
From reading and tutorial videos I've been studying my impression is that Solaris is essentially a USD hub (similar to Omniverse) and Karma is a Hydra delegate. Everything that is brought into the Solaris workspace is converted/translated to USD.
I've seen 2 distinct workflows regarding this:
1 - build/import assets in the obj context of the build workspace and import/translate them to the stage context of the Solaris workspace
2 - build/import assets directly in the Solaris workspace stage
Personally I'm leaning towards the second option for several reasons. Primarily because everything is directly available and editable in that space and I don't have to keep switching over to build.
Is there any reason that this is not necessarily better than option one? And also, does it cut down on resources that may be needed for the translation process of assets that have been imported from the first workflow option? I'd love to hear what users here prefer or their reason why one id better than the other, or indeed, why I'm wrong and there are in fact better ways to go about it.
Cheers.