Taxonomy / Tag
Reference notes in the Tag taxonomy for USD.
Understand how USD layers, references, payloads, variants, and asset paths shape a resolved scene, and compare those relationships before flattening.
Treat appearance as a chain of UVs, texture resources, material bindings, shader networks, and renderer contexts instead of assuming that geometry preservation guarantees visual fidelity.
A standalone file, an encoded container, and a resource-bearing package are different things. Learn what to identify before assuming a transfer is self-contained.