AY-7141_Maya USD: Publish USD with properties/attributes filtered

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Please describe the enhancement you have in mind and explain what the current shortcomings are?

When writing out a USD from Maya using mayaUSDExport you may want to get very specific about what properties on the export to include or exclude.

The default export options from Maya USD Export would be nice to expose, so studios can decided to e.g. force skip (or force including) writing: UVs, component tags, color sets, materials. However, one may want to get even more granular - like explicitly specifying what properties to keep in the exported file.

For example, Houdini exposes plenty of options for that - by having attributes where one can specify attributes to include using string pattern matching. So that one could do e.g. asterix to include all, and then add ^xform to filter out all xform attributes, like: * ^xform*

It overlaps a lot with however is even more specific - getting to the particular properties to filter instead of the default checkboxes supported by Maya USD Export.

It may be worth it to somehow also expose the Maya USD Export -filterTypes flag so that one could explicitly ignore certain Maya node types to be excluded.

How would you imagine the implementation of the enhancemenent?

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Describe alternatives you've considered:

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Additional context:

link to discussion on Discord
(might be a private channel)

This issue was automatically created from Clickup ticket AY-7141