Template Lighting Houdini Solaris - USD / Individual and Multi-Shot

Here is a lighting developer template for Houdini / Solaris with a workflow dedicated to USD.This template was developed with version 20.5.676.

File contents: 

• one scene for a single shot 
• one scene for multiple shots.

This template is composed of four main parts:

1. Imports and modifications

2. Lighting (Master Lighting for the sequence and Shot Lighting (Edit the Master and add more lights)

3. Render settings and choice of render engine between Karma and Arnold (You can also render with RenderMan or others, but you will need to configure them manually)

4. Render layers ( Background, Middleground, Foreground, FX and Volume)

To speed things up, a Context Option is also available with several parameters already set, such as sampling, aspect ratio, shot selection, motion blur activation, and render layer. Everything is explained inside the template to make it easier for you to use. You are free to modify this template as you see fit.