Properties

Prims can have Properties, which are essentially named and typed data.

A Property within USD is actually a collective term for two distinct types of Properties:

Attributes

Attributes are Properties with direct values that may vary over time

Relationships

Relationships are Properties that point to other properties or Prims

In the above, you can see that properties are made up from a name and a typed value

These property names can also be namespaced. A property name can have 1 or more namespace identifiers separated by :.
Looking closer at the relationship example, the property name material:binding is actually namespaced. The property’s name itself is binding and it is part of a material namespace.

Namespaces can be used to categorize or group properties together.