Simo Virokannas

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Compiling Pixar’s USD natively on Windows 11 / VS 2022

Oct 27, 2022

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Simo

in Informative, Programming, Universal Scene Description, Windows

If you’ve tried it, you’ve probably run into the endless catch-22 that is getting everything to behave when trying to compile the Universal Scene Description on a newly setup Windows machine. NOTE: if there’s any way for you to avoid this in your life, don’t look back, rejoice. Prerequisites You’ll need to install at least…
Compiling Pixar’s USD natively on Apple M1

Apr 19, 2022

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Simo

in Informative, OSX, Programming

This is in no way meant to be a “standard, do it this way” kind of a solution, but just one way of making it happen. I don’t like how homebrew and alike plug themselves into default locations and potentially taint your environment, so I default to Python-centric virtual environment handlers like miniconda. With the…