Some help for you guys.

[ggarra13]

Thank you for opensourcing your renderer which will be pivotal for research and VFX and not forcing people to use the render queue. Please keep developing it.

You taught me a new way to use docker, which I found interesting. I have tried to stay away from checking renderers as a I always make a mess of the industry when I do so.

I found your ICL cumbersome, compared to, for example, Pixar's OpentimelineIO where the whole signing process could be done without leaving your browser.

So, rather than signing an ICL, I will point you to my Ubuntu22 NATIVE (non-docker) CMake scripts. They are optimized to build the dependencies as fast as possible. They are in the branch ubuntu22 and should work fine with Ubuntu 22.04.3, but they are a WIP. That will help people with the issues facing RedHat's threats of closing distributions like Rocky Linux.

Instead of submitting a PR, which I will hold until you make ICL easier to use, you can check them out for now and use them as you see fit at ggarra13/openmoonray and ggarra13/arras*, etc. other repositories. (ubuntu22 branch remember that).

I also updated USD to version v0.23.11.

The scripts can be run by just starting them with a runme.sh main script at the root of the project. One caveat is that scripts build also usdview which is unnecesary for openmoonray and for my own purposes too (requiring a painful Qt5.1.12 download from Qt main web page, instead of just Ubuntu's qt5-base-dev package) but I am still using it for debugging. I found out that it would work fine for basic scenes like the Kitchen_set scenes, but for the ALab scene there would be missing objects not showing up in usdview.

[disini]

Awesome job ! I'm trying to compile this project on ubuntu 22.04, and I encountered many problems on it! Thanks so much for your great work!