USDINITSCHEMA(1)

✨ USDINITSCHEMA ✨

okay bestie so this is usdInitSchema — manual page for usdInitSchema version 26.11.1 💅 and honestly? it's the little setup goblin that gets your schema classes ready to serve. no cap.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

here's the whole vibe, literally:

usage: usdInitSchema [-h] [-v] [-q] [--genModuleDeps] [-t TEMPLATEPATH]

       codeGenPath libraryPath [pxrPrefix]

so what does it do? it sets up build necessities for schema classes 🛠️ like, it generates templates for the CMakeLists.txt, __init__.py, schema.usda, module.cpp, and a user doc — but only if they do not already exist. it's giving "respectful houseguest", it will not touch your stuff 🫶

🎀 positional arguments

• codeGenPath — the target directory where the code should be generated 👑 ngl you can literally just pass . for the current directory. iconic.
• libraryPath — the partial path that gets used to prefix #include statements in the generated files for this module. and here's the tea for external (non-Pixar) plugins: we recommend setting libraryPath to . so that the headers inside the src directory get included in the generated files 🦋
• pxrPrefix — prefix to the path from pxr to this library. like, for pxr/usd/usd, the prefix would be pxr/usd. and if you're on a non-OpenUSD build system? just omit this argument entirely, no stress 💜

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🔥 options

• -h, --help — shows this help message and exits. the classic. the icon. the moment. ✨
• -v, --validate — verifies that the source files are unchanged 👀 yep, it checks.
• -q, --quiet — do not output text during execution 🤫 shy mode activated.
• --genModuleDeps — generates a template for the moduleDeps.cpp. and heads up bestie: this template will need to be filled in and kept up to date with library dependencies if you are not using the OpenUSD build system — so that's on you, not on the tool 😭
• -t, --templates TEMPLATEPATH — directory containing schema class templates. the default is the first directory that exists from this list:

/build/usd/pkg/usd/usr/bin/codegenTemplates:/build/usd/pkg/usd/usr/lib/usd/usd/resources/codegenTemplates

so it goes looking, in order, and grabs the first one that actually exists 🧚 literally a scavenger hunt.

real talk: --genModuleDeps hands you a template, not a finished file — you gotta fill it in and keep it updated yourself if you're outside the OpenUSD build system. no autopilot, sorry 🥲

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aaaand that's the whole page, you ate that 💖 huge shoutout to usdInitSchema 26.11.1, born October 2026 — go set up those build necessities, main character 🌈💅