Activision USD Shell Extension

A Windows Shell Extension for the Pixar USD file format.

Windows Explorer Features

Windows Search Features

More details available here.

Goals

There are several goals that this shell extension tries to adhere to and takes extra precautions to meet.

Performance
It is important that the shell extension not stall Windows Explorer.
Stability
Instability in the shell extension will take down Window Explorer and/or the entire desktop.

The mitigation strategy is to run the majority of the shell extension asynchronously out of the Windows Explorer process.

The following dependencies are required:

Required Microsoft Visual Studio Components:

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
UsdPreviewHandlerPython		UsdPreviewHandlerPython
UsdPreviewHandlerServer		UsdPreviewHandlerServer
UsdPythonToolsServer		UsdPythonToolsServer
UsdSdkToolsServer		UsdSdkToolsServer
UsdShellExtension		UsdShellExtension
UsdShellExtensionInstaller		UsdShellExtensionInstaller
docs		docs
shared		shared
.gitignore		.gitignore
Activision-Corporate-CLA-USD-Shell-Extension.pdf		Activision-Corporate-CLA-USD-Shell-Extension.pdf
Activision-Individual-CLA-USD-Shell-Extension.pdf		Activision-Individual-CLA-USD-Shell-Extension.pdf
BUILDING.md		BUILDING.md
CONTRIBUTING.txt		CONTRIBUTING.txt
LICENSE.txt		LICENSE.txt
NOTICE.txt		NOTICE.txt
README.md		README.md
UsdShellExtension.sln		UsdShellExtension.sln
atviversion.h		atviversion.h
atviversion.props		atviversion.props
atviversion.rc2		atviversion.rc2
boost.props		boost.props
nsis.props		nsis.props
python.props		python.props
usd-monolithic.props		usd-monolithic.props
usd-shared.props		usd-shared.props
usd.props		usd.props