USD: Allow exporting of invisible objects

The fix for T75936 made it possible to export invisible objects to
Alembic. This commit applies the same approach to the USD exporter.

The USD and Alembic code is slightly different in terms of where in the
exported file the visibility attribute is stored. In USD the visibility
is used to prune the scene graph, and thus there are only two options:
"hidden" and "inherited". Setting the visiblity of a node in the scene
graph to "hidden" immediately hides all its children. To allow hidden
parents with visible children, the visibility is stored on the object
data (so the geometry/camera/lamp/etc) instead.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/io/usd/intern/usd_writer_mesh.cc b/source/blender/io/usd/intern/usd_writer_mesh.cc
index b27c68a41f6..75d1ca605d4 100644
--- a/source/blender/io/usd/intern/usd_writer_mesh.cc
+++ b/source/blender/io/usd/intern/usd_writer_mesh.cc
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
 #include "DNA_object_fluidsim_types.h"
 #include "DNA_particle_types.h"
 
+#include <iostream>
+
 namespace blender {
 namespace io {
 namespace usd {
@@ -52,7 +54,10 @@ USDGenericMeshWriter::USDGenericMeshWriter(const USDExporterContext &ctx) : USDA
 
 bool USDGenericMeshWriter::is_supported(const HierarchyContext *context) const
 {
-  return context->is_object_visible(usd_export_context_.export_params.evaluation_mode);
+  if (usd_export_context_.export_params.visible_objects_only) {
+    return context->is_object_visible(usd_export_context_.export_params.evaluation_mode);
+  }
+  return true;
 }
 
 void USDGenericMeshWriter::do_write(HierarchyContext &context)
@@ -149,6 +154,8 @@ void USDGenericMeshWriter::write_mesh(HierarchyContext &context, Mesh *mesh)
   const pxr::SdfPath &usd_path = usd_export_context_.usd_path;
 
   pxr::UsdGeomMesh usd_mesh = pxr::UsdGeomMesh::Define(stage, usd_path);
+  write_visibility(context, timecode, usd_mesh);
+
   USDMeshData usd_mesh_data;
   get_geometry_data(mesh, usd_mesh_data);