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RenderMan's power and flexibility means that a large amount of control is given to the user through its wide variety of settings.  All of these settings are exposed in RfK through the PrmanIntegratorSettings, PrmanGlobalStatements and PrmanObjectStatements.  The attributes in PrmanGlobalStatements are used to control RenderMan's global Options.  

PrmanIntegratorSettings sets the integrator to be used in rendering with RenderMan and its associated controls. Typically for production the PxrPathTracer integrator is chosen.

PrmanGlobalStatements is used for per-location Attributes.  Since there are only a small number of settings used regularly in both of these nodes, they are each set up to hide the less common attributes by default. The Parameter Layout setting is used to expand or collapse collections of attributes based on common usage:  Simple, Advanced, or all. That said, even the Simple layout exposes numerous settings. Below are most useful settings:

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Commonly-used Options in PrmanGlobalStatements

PrmanObjectStatements are connected to a specific location in the scene graph (e.g. an object, a hierarchy or CEL grouping).  Common things to control with this node are visibility attributes and trace depth.  Below is a description of a few common settings in PrmanObjectStatements:

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