Reference/Release Notes/4.1/Pipeline Assets IO

Pipeline, Assets & I/O

Stanford PLY

• PLY importer and exporter now supports custom vertex attributes (0eb6aef3b0).

STL

• New STL (.stl) exporter (17c793e43c). The new exporter is written in C++ and is 3x-10x faster than the Python exporter.
• Python STL exporter/importer add-on has been marked as legacy. Users of bpy.ops.export_mesh.stl / bpy.ops.import_mesh.stl are advised to switch to new STL exporter/importer functions bpy.ops.wm.stl_export / bpy.ops.wm.stl_import.

USD

• Export to a single root prim by default (b262655d39).
• Author extents property for lights on export (e6ff1348cb).
• Optionally author subdivision schema on export (5edda6cbcc).
• Scene graph instancing import support (ea89e11e01).
• Support armature and shape key export (c6d61e8586).