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• Access to native USD for scene composition, variants, and overrides.  USD is a robust technology for building up assets, putting them into sets, and adding shot-specific details and animation.  It is a great pipeline tool.
• A new lighting toolset that allows artists to build lights into their USD scenes.
• Direct batch rendering of USD files via Houdini's "husk" command-line renderer.

RenderMan provides a USD Hydra Renderer Delegate that allows artists to render interactively directly to the Solaris viewport.  Artists get immediate path-traced visual feedback during scene assembly, and adjustments to lighting, materials, and other scene attributes.  The same RenderMan Hydra Renderer Delegate is what also allows the "husk" command-line renderer.

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For more information, please consult the other sections of our documentation, as well as from the USD documentation and the Solaris documentation:

• RenderMan for Houdini – Solaris: 
  

  Children Display

• Pixar's USD
  
  
• Houdini/Solaris
  • Product Information
  • Documentation

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