Practical Lighting with Katana and Arnold: Template Structure Overview @FoundryTeam
Practical Lighting with Katana and Arnold: Template Structure Overview  @FoundryTeam
Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Graham walks through the template stucture showing how each section has been set up and optimized. Learn how to load in XGen groom, set up collections, refine your layout with transforms and pruning, create local materials and edit existing materials, set Arnold specific options, and general render settings. Graham will also show you the native USD exquivalents of these workflows.
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