Proposal : Allow for the ability to see USD Stage materials as text #55
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Proposal
It is useful for debugging and interop comparison to be able to see the USD Stage materials.
A simple way to do this is to add a "preview as text" as exists for MaterialX.
Change
Figure: Shows new proposed menu item and the text box popup
Logic
/MaterialX
prim and extracts it out using a newprint_usd_prim
utiltity which references the prim and exports the children as a string for display.