diff --git a/examples/jsm/loaders/usd/USDAParser.js b/examples/jsm/loaders/usd/USDAParser.js
index aeca91fc1ef4cc..174438265e0064 100644
--- a/examples/jsm/loaders/usd/USDAParser.js
+++ b/examples/jsm/loaders/usd/USDAParser.js
@@ -699,6 +699,8 @@ class USDAParser {
 		// Array types
 		if ( valueType.endsWith( '[]' ) ) {
 
+			let result;
+
 			// Parse JSON-like arrays
 			try {
 
@@ -709,19 +711,13 @@ class USDAParser {
 				const parsed = JSON.parse( cleaned );
 
 				// Flatten nested arrays for types like point3f[]
-				if ( Array.isArray( parsed ) && Array.isArray( parsed[ 0 ] ) ) {
-
-					return parsed.flat();
-
-				}
-
-				return parsed;
+				result = Array.isArray( parsed ) && Array.isArray( parsed[ 0 ] ) ? parsed.flat() : parsed;
 
 			} catch ( e ) {
 
 				// Try simple array parsing
 				const cleaned = str.replace( /[\[\]]/g, '' );
-				return cleaned.split( ',' ).map( s => {
+				result = cleaned.split( ',' ).map( s => {
 
 					const trimmed = s.trim();
 					const num = parseFloat( trimmed );
@@ -731,6 +727,23 @@ class USDAParser {
 
 			}
 
+			//reorder (w, x, y, z) to (x, y, z, w)
+			if ( valueType.startsWith( 'quat' ) ) {
+
+				for ( let i = 0; i < result.length; i += 4 ) {
+
+					const w = result[ i ];
+					result[ i ] = result[ i + 1 ];
+					result[ i + 1 ] = result[ i + 2 ];
+					result[ i + 2 ] = result[ i + 3 ];
+					result[ i + 3 ] = w;
+
+				}
+
+			}
+
+			return result;
+
 		}
 
 		// Vector types (double3, float3, point3f, etc.)
diff --git a/src/renderers/common/ClippingContext.js b/src/renderers/common/ClippingContext.js
index f556143fd50583..1ed98b973eeb54 100644
--- a/src/renderers/common/ClippingContext.js
+++ b/src/renderers/common/ClippingContext.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { Matrix3 } from '../../math/Matrix3.js';
+import { Matrix4 } from '../../math/Matrix4.js';
 import { Plane } from '../../math/Plane.js';
 import { Vector4 } from '../../math/Vector4.js';
 
@@ -52,6 +53,13 @@ class ClippingContext {
 		 */
 		this.shadowPass = false;
 
+		/**
+		 * The view matrix.
+		 *
+		 * @type {Matrix4}
+		 */
+		this.viewMatrix = new Matrix4();
+
 		/**
 		 * The view normal matrix.
 		 *
@@ -90,11 +98,11 @@ class ClippingContext {
 
 		if ( parentContext !== null ) {
 
+			this.viewMatrix = parentContext.viewMatrix;
 			this.viewNormalMatrix = parentContext.viewNormalMatrix;
 			this.clippingGroupContexts = parentContext.clippingGroupContexts;
 
 			this.shadowPass = parentContext.shadowPass;
-			this.viewMatrix = parentContext.viewMatrix;
 
 		}
 
@@ -137,8 +145,8 @@ class ClippingContext {
 	updateGlobal( scene, camera ) {
 
 		this.shadowPass = ( scene.overrideMaterial !== null && scene.overrideMaterial.isShadowPassMaterial );
-		this.viewMatrix = camera.matrixWorldInverse;
 
+		this.viewMatrix.copy( camera.matrixWorldInverse );
 		this.viewNormalMatrix.getNormalMatrix( this.viewMatrix );
 
 	}