Houdini 20.5 Nodes LOP nodes

Configure Primitives

Edits various metadata on one or more primitives.

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Since 18.0

Overview

The metadata on primitives is a “grab bag” of useful settings, such as:

  • Visibility and draw mode.

  • For what types of render the prim is used.

  • Bookkeeping information such as references to files on disk.

  • How primitives are traversed.

  • Space where studios or tools can store their own arbitrary per-prim data.

Tips

  • This node will only author a bit of metadata if the corresponding parameter has its checkbox turned on. If the checkbox for a parameter is off, the node will not change any existing metadata corresponding to that parameter.

  • You can easily switch the draw mode of primitives in the scene using the controls in the Scene Graph Tree pane. The controls in the pane modify an in-memory “view layer” that is not saved to disk, so they are more useful for working interactively.

  • Proxy Primitive, Card Geometry, Card Color, the card Textures, Asset Identifier, Asset Name, Asset Version, Asset Dependencies, and Icon can all use the following local variables to get a per-prim value:

    @numprim

    The total number of primitives being modified by this node.

    @prim

    Index of the primitive being modified. This value goes from 0 to @numprim-1.

    @primpath

    The path of the primitive being modified.

    @primname

    The last token in the primpath

  • A python expression can use hou.lvar('primpath') to get the path and from there get the USD prim from which further information can be retrieved, for instance pwd().input(0).stage().GetPrimAtPath(hou.lvar('primpath')).GetPrimStack()[-1].layer.identifier

Parameters

Primitives

The primitive(s) the node should operate on. You can drag primitives from the scene graph tree pane into this textbox to add their paths, or click the Reselect button beside the text box to select the primitives in the viewer, or ⌃ Ctrl-click the Reselect button to choose prims from a pop-up tree window. You can also use primitive patterns for advanced matching, including matching all prims in a collection (using /path/to/prim.collection:‹name›).

Note

This parameter needs to be exposed in order for the transform handles to be context-aware. Without it, the handles may not be positioned properly.

Type

Set the primitive’s type. Changing the type of an existing primitive can lead to unexpected results, as all existing attributes on the primitive will remain, and not all attributes have any meaning or the same meaning in a different primitive type. However this capability can be invaluable in performing low level corrections to scenes that may have been authored incorrectly.

Specifier

Set the primitive’s specifier in the active layer. Note that this may not change the composed specifier for the primitive, depending on whether a different specifier is already set in another layer. In particular, an Over specifier opinion is weaker than any other specifier opinion, even if the other opinion is on a weaker layer.

Purpose

Set the primitive’s purpose. Purposes are a way to control what gets rendered. The viewer/renderer only shows primitives tagged with one of a specified set of purposes.

Default

No set purpose, rendered by default.

Render

Should be used to tag high-resolution geometry that should appear in final renders.

Proxy

Should be used to tag faster/cheaper/lower-resolution proxy geometry. This may be used for test renders.

Guide

Should be used to tag “guide geometry” that should appear in an interactive viewer but not a rendered image. For example, collision geometry for a simulation.

If you set up purposes on your primitives, then you can control visibility of all primitives with the same purpose at render time by setting what purposes are visible in the render settings.

Note

If you set a primitive to have a Render purpose, there should be a corresponding prim with its purpose set to “Proxy”, and on the “Render” prim you should set the Proxy primitive (below) to the path of the “Proxy” prim.

Proxy Primitive

For a primitive with Render Purpose, this metadata holds the path to the primitive with Proxy purpose which corresponds to this render primitive.

Kind

See Kinds and the model hierarchy for an explanation of kinds and how they should be used. To maintain a proper model hierarchy, you should apply a kind to any prim whose descendants contain geometry.

None

Mark this prim as not having a kind.

Assembly

Mark this prim as an “important” group of models (for example, if a prop is made up of smaller moving parts, the top level of the prop would be an Assembly, and the sub-parts would be Groups and/or Components).

Group

Mark this prim as a group of models.

Component

Mark this prim as a “leaf” model.

Sub-component

Mark this prim as a subordinate part under a Component model.

Fix Kind Hierarchy

Set the kind of all parents of the selected prims so that the hierarchy is correct. Primarily this makes sure all parents of component or group have a kind of assembly or group.

Instanceable

See Instancing for an explanation of instanceable primitives. If a prim is marked as “instanceable”, all duplicates of that prim (and its descendants) are automatically replaced with lightweight references to a single “master” instance. You can still change attributes on instanceable prim (for example, to give each instance its own transform), but you can’t edit any of its descendants.

Apply Draw Mode On This Primitive

Indicates that this prim should be drawn according to the draw mode set on this prim or one of its ancestors. Component prims and prims with unloaded payloads are the normal locations where the draw mode is applied. This attribute allows any other primitive (that is part of a valid model hierarchy) to be the point in the scene graph where the chosen draw mode is applied.

Draw Mode

Controls how the renderer draws geometry under this prim. These options allow you to replace extremely heavy geometry in the viewer with faster, cheaper alternatives. Descendants of this prim will inherit this setting unless they change it.

Note

You can easily switch the draw mode of primitives in the scene using the controls in the Scene Graph Tree pane. The controls in the pane modify an in-memory “view layer” that is not saved to disk, so they are more useful for working interactively. This parameter should not be set here as it will interfere with these controls, however it is useful to temporarily set it to configure the cards.

Full Geometry

Force the geometry to be drawn normally, ignoring any value set on a parent.

Origin Axes

Instead of drawing the geometry, draw a “jack” (three lines along the X, Y, and Z axes) aligned to the geometry’s local space, at its local origin.

Bounding Box

Instead of drawing the geometry, draw a world-space-aligned box representing the bounding box of the geometry.

Textured Cards

Draws rectangular polygons with optional textures within or around the bounding box of this primitive. A variety of other attributes are used to control the appearance of these cards. They may be drawn as a bounding box, or as three cards that meet at the origin. The texture maps for each of the six visible card faces are also controlled though attributes.

Draw Mode Color

Color to draw Origin, Bounds, or if all the card textures are missing

Card Geometry

If Cards Draw Mode is chosen, what kind of Cards to draw

Cross

Draw the texture cards parallel with the box sides and intersecting at the center of the extents

Box

Draw a box the size of the extents with the cards as the sides

From Texture

Use the worldtoscreen metadata of the texture to place the cards at any orientation. Houdini cannot generate these textures.

Sampling Behavior

Cooking this node can generate many USD time samples, rather than just a single time sample at the current time. This can be equivalent to having a Cache LOP following this node, but it will evaluate much faster, and does not cache data from any other nodes. This allows animated data to be authored to USD without introducing a node time dependency which would then cause all following nodes to also be time dependent. This can vastly improve playback performance of some LOP Networks.

In all sampling modes, if a parameter on this node does not vary with time, and does not rely on other time sampled data from the stage, only a single default value will be generated in USD for the corresponding attribute. USD time samples are only generated for parameters that may vary over time.

Sample Current Frame

A single time sample will be generated for the current time.

Sample Frame Range If Input Is Not Time Dependent

If the input to this node is time dependent, this node behaves as if it is in Sample current frame mode. Otherwise it behaves as if it is in Sample frame range mode.

Sample Frame Range

The Start/End/Inc parameter is used to generate multiple times at which this node’s parameters are evaluated, and a USD time sample is created for each attribute at each one of these times.

Start/End/Inc

When the Sampling behavior is Sample frame range, this parameter controls the number and spacing of base time samples to be generated by this node. The default values of this parameter are @fstart, @fend, and @finc. These values correspond to the start, end, and step size of the global Houdini animation settings when interacting with Houdini. When using a ROP node to generate a range of frames, these values correspond to the start, end, and increment values specified on the ROP node being executed. This default ensures that a USD file written to disk will contain time samples for exactly the frame range requested by the ROP (regardless of the Houdini animation settings).

Subframe Sampling

For each primary sample generated by this node, these parameters can cause additional samples to be generated around that primary sample time. This is most often used to ensure that accurate data exists at exactly the camera shutter open and close times, as well as at the primary sample time.

Shutter

Controls the method used to specify the shutter open and close times relative to the primary sample times.

Specify Manually

The Shutter Open/Close parameter values provide exact offset values relative to the primary sample time.

Use Camera Prim

The Camera Prim parameter provides the scene graph path of a camera primitive from which the shutter open and close times are extracted to provide the offset values relative to the primary time sample.

Shutter Open/Close

When Shutter is set to Specify Manually, these two offset values are added to the primary sample time to indicate the shutter open and close times. The open time should be less than or equal to zero, and the close time should be greater than or equal to zero.

Camera Prim

When Shutter is set to Use Camera Prim, this is the scene graph path of a camera prim on the input node’s stage. The shutter open and close attribute values are read from this primitive.

Samples

The number of subframe samples to create for each primary sample. These samples are evenly distributed between the shutter open and close times. Note that such an even distribution may or may not create a sample at exactly the primary sample time.

Always Include Frame Sample

When turned on, forces a sample to be created at exactly the primary sample time. If the Samples value, together with the shutter open and close times, already place a sample at the primary sample time, turning on this option has no effect. Otherwise, this option causes an addition sample to be added. This means that the actual number of samples per primary sample may in fact be one more than the number specified in the Samples parameter.

Visibility

For performance reasons, the options for this attribute are Inherit or Invisible (there is no explicit “Visible” value). This means that when you mark a primitive is marked invisible, all its descendants are made invisible as well.

It can be useful to animate this setting over time, unlike most of the parameters on this node.

Set Extents

Compute any missing extents or extentsHint attributes. This information is needed to draw the cards and bounds at the correct size for those draw modes.

Primitives Missing Extents

Only primitives in the pattern which can meaningfully have an extents or extentHints attribute, and which do not already have this attribute will calculate and set an extent value.

All Primitives

All primitives in the pattern which can meaningfully have an extents or extentHints attribute will calculate and set an extent value.

+X Texture

Texture to draw on the +X side of the box or cross. If missing the -X texture is mirrored. If both are missing then YZ plane is not drawn. This parameter can be animated.

-X Texture

Texture to draw on the -X side of the box or cross. If missing the +X texture is mirrored. If both are missing then YZ plane is not drawn. This parameter can be animated.

+Y Texture

Texture to draw on the +Y side of the box or cross. If missing the -Y texture is mirrored. If both are missing then XZ plane is not drawn. This parameter can be animated.

-Y Texture

Texture to draw on the -Y side of the box or cross. If missing the +Y texture is mirrored. If both are missing then XZ plane is not drawn. This parameter can be animated.

+Z Texture

Texture to draw on the +Z side of the box or cross. If missing the -Z texture is mirrored. If both are missing then XY plane is not drawn. This parameter can be animated.

-Z Texture

Texture to draw on the -Z side of the box or cross. If missing the +Z texture is mirrored. If both are missing then XY plane is not drawn. This parameter can be animated.

Activation

If you turn this off, the primitive has no effect on the scene (for example, a light object will not cast light), it becomes invisible, and behaves as if it has no children.

Asset Identifier

Stores the file path or asset ID of the file this primitive came from. USD does not use this metadata, but it may be useful for internal tools.

Asset Name

A human readable name that may describe the asset. This may be authored by a pipeline/asset management tool. USD does not use this metadata, but it may be useful for internal tools.

Asset Version

For version-controlled assets, the version number of the asset when the scene was authored. This may be authored by a pipeline/asset management tool. USD does not use this metadata, but it may be useful for internal tools.

Asset Dependencies

An optional list of other files that are loaded indirectly by the asset file. This may be authored by a pipeline/asset management tool. USD does not use this metadata, but it may be useful for internal tools.

Asset Info Count

Additional named values to associate with the asset info dictionary on these prims or properties. Set the number of items to set/edit, or use the plus and minus buttons to add or remove items.

Asset Info Name

For each item of asset info, the name of the item.

Asset Info Type

For each item of asset info, the data type of the value.

String

The value is stored as a single string.

String Array

The value is parsed into an array of substring, respecting quotes to group space separated words into a single substring.

Token

Like a string, but represented as a USD Token, which generally should not contain spaces. Using this specific data type may be necessary to match scripts or tools later in your pipeline.

Token Array

Like a string array, but because USD Tokens generally aren’t expected to have spaces, the string is parsed into tokens using a simpler algorithm which ignores quotes and always splits the string where there is whitespace.

Float

The value is stored as a floating point number.

Integer

The value is stored as a whole integer value.

Boolean

The value is stored as a True or False value.

Asset Info Value

For each item of asset info, the value to associate with the name.

(Behind the scenes there are several different parameters (assetinfostrvalue‹n›, assetinfofloatvalue‹n›, assetinfointvalue‹n›, assetinfoboolvalue‹n›) all labeled Asset info value, with the visible one controlled by the Asset info type value. This may be relevant if you are using expressions or scripting these values.)

Icon

A path to an icon or image file that should be associated with the selected primitives in the Scene Graph Tree. This icon path is stored in a the primitive’s custom data dictionary.

Allow LOPs to Edit This Primitive

Applies a Houdini-specific attribute to the primitive which controls whether Edit Properties LOP node are allowed to modify this primitive. Disallowing the editing of a particular primitive can be used to prevent accidental modifications of cameras or other critical scene elements. Note that this toggle does not affect all edits of this primitive in LOPs, only the Edit Properties type LOP nodes respect this attribute.

Allow Viewport Selection of This Primitive

Applies a Houdini-specific attribute to the primitive which controls whether or not the primitive can be selected in the viewport. Setting this attribute on a primitive also affects all descendants of the primitive that do not specify their own explicit value for this attribute.

Hide Primitive In Scene Graph Trees

Sets the hidden USD metadata to the primitive which controls whether or not this primitive (and its descendants) should be visible in the scene graph tree pane. Primitives tagged as hidden will still be visible in the viewport unless the primitive is also marked as invisible or inactive. Note that the scene graph tree pane provides an option to ignore this attribute (primarily for debugging purposes).

Apply API Schemas

See schemas for an explanation of API schemas. Primitives automatically keep a record of which API schemas have been “applied” to them. This parameter allows to list additional API schemas to apply to this primitive.

Custom Data Count

The metadata of every prim and property contains a dictionary for use by software packages and/or studios to store custom data. You can set or edit multiple custom key-value pairs here. Set the number of items to set/edit, or use the plus and minus buttons to add or remove items.

Custom Data Name

For each item of custom data, the name of the item.

Custom Data Type

For each item of custom data, the data type of the value.

String

The value is stored as a single string.

String Array

The value is parsed into an array of substring, respecting quotes to group space separated words into a single substring.

Token

Like a string, but represented as a USD Token, which generally should not contain spaces. Using this specific data type may be necessary to match scripts or tools later in your pipeline.

Token Array

Like a string array, but because USD Tokens generally aren’t expected to have spaces, the string is parsed into tokens using a simpler algorithm which ignores quotes and always splits the string where there is whitespace.

Float

The value is stored as a floating point number.

Integer

The value is stored as a whole integer value.

Boolean

The value is stored as a True or False value.

Custom Data Value

For each item of custom data, the value to associate with the name.

(Behind the scenes there are several different parameters (customdatastrvalue‹n›, customdatafloatvalue‹n›, customdataintvalue‹n›, customdataboolvalue‹n›) all labeled Custom data value, with the visible one controlled by the Custom data type value. This may be relevant if you are using expressions or scripting these values.)

See also

LOP nodes

  • Add Variant

    Adds one or more variants to a variant set on a primitive. This node creates the primitive if it doesn’t exist.

  • Additional Render Vars

    Create multiple render vars.

  • Asset Reference

    Reference, Transform, and select variants of a USD Asset.

  • Assign Material

    Assigns a material to one or more USD primitives. You can use also programmatically assign materials using VEX, programmatically override material settings for each assignment, and programmatically assign materials to geometry subsets.

  • Assign Prototypes

    Switch point instances or USD instanceable prims to instance a different prototype.

  • Attribute VOP

    Create/edit USD attribute values using a VOP network.

  • Attribute Wrangle

    Create/edit USD primitive attributes using a VEX snippet.

  • Auto Select LOD

    Automatically selects a level-of-detail variant based on the primitive’s distance from the camera.

  • Background Plate

    Sets up hold-out or matte objects that leave holes in the scene through which the background is visible. These prims still take shadows and contribute to reflections as if they were the background.

  • Bake Skinning

    Bakes animation driven by a UsdSkel into transforms and point positions.

  • Basis Curves

    Creates or edits a basis curves shape primitive.

  • Begin Context Options Block

    This node begins a block of LOP nodes, within which certain context options have certain values.

  • Blend

    Partially applies edits to a layer’s attributes based on a fractional weight.

  • Blend Constraint

    Blends transforms according to a list of weights specified as parameters.

  • Cache

    Caches the results of cooking the network at different times, increasing playback speed.

  • Camera

    Adds a USD camera to the scene.

  • Capsule

    Creates or edits a capsule (tube with hemispherical ends) shape primitive.

  • Collection

    Creates/edits collections using primitive patterns.

  • Component Geometry

    Geometry container or import source, in a network created by the Component Builder tool.

  • Component Geometry Variants

    Sets up geometry variants, in a network created by the Component Builder tool.

  • Component Material

    Assigns materials to geometry in a network created by the Component Builder tool.

  • Component Output

    Assembles the final Component prim, in a network created by the Component Builder tool.

  • Cone

    Creates or edits a cone shape primitive.

  • Configure Layer

    Edits metadata on a layer.

  • Configure Primitives

    Edits various metadata on one or more primitives.

  • Configure Properties

    Configures metadata on properties (relationships and attributes).

  • Configure Stage

    Configures metadata for how to load layers into the stage and asset resolution.

  • Coordinate System

    Define named coordinate systems used in shaders.

  • Copy Property

    Copy properties from one primitive to another, or renames properties on a primitive.

  • Create LOD

    Uses the PolyReduce SOP to automatically generate multiple levels of detail from a high-res model, and stores them as USD variants.

  • Cube

    Creates or edits a cube shape primitive.

  • Cylinder

    Creates or edits a cylinder shape primitive.

  • Distant Light

    Creates or edits a USD Distant Light, representing a far-off light source such as the sun. Adds some useful Karma-specific attributes.

  • Dome Light

    Creates or edits a USD Dome Light prim. A dome light emits light inward, simulating light coming from the sky/environment surrounding the scene.

  • Draw Mode

    Sets draw mode properties on USD model assets.

  • Drop

    Runs a simulation to drop primitives under gravity.

  • Duplicate

    Creates copies of a prim (and its descendants).

  • Edit

    Interactively transforms prims in the viewer. Can use physics collisions to position props realistically.

  • Edit Context Options

  • Edit Material

    Allows you to edit an existing USD material by modifying parameters and shader connections. This can be useful if the existing material is on a non-editable layer.

  • Edit Material Properties

    Lets you build a spare parameter interface that reflects material or shader input attributes to directly edit their values.

  • Edit Properties

    Lets you build a spare parameter interface to directly edit attribute and relationship values.

  • Edit Properties From Node

    Lets you refer to the parameter on another node to directly edit attribute and relationship values.

  • Edit Prototypes

    Modify the prototypes of native or point instances in-place, without disturbing the instancing setup.

  • Edit Target Layer

    Allows you to apply edits directly in a lower layer, instead of overriding prims and attributes in the active layer.

  • Error

    Generates a message, warning, or error, which can show up on a parent asset.

  • Explore Variants

    Visualize, set, or extract variants on primitives.

  • Extract Instances

    Converts (heroes) an instance into a real editable prim.

  • Fetch

    Grabs the output of another LOP, potentially in another LOP network.

  • File Cache

    Caches (writes out once and then reads from) USD layers (possibly animated) to disk.

  • Follow Path Constraint

    Constrains a prim to follow a path curve.

  • For Each

    The end node of a For-Each loop block.

  • Geometry Clip Sequence

  • Geometry Color

    Adds display color and display opacity primvars to geometry.

  • Geometry Sequence

    Imports a sequence of geometry files into LOPs as animated geometry.

  • Geometry Subset VOP

    Creates USD geometry subsets within geometry prims (similar to groups in SOPs) based on evaluating a VEXpression or VOP network.

  • Graft Branches

    Takes prims/branches from the second input and attaches them onto branches of the scene graph tree in the first input.

  • Graft Stages

    Takes scene graph trees from other inputs and attaches them onto branches of the scene graph tree in the first input.

  • HDA Dynamic Payload

    Cooks a OBJ or SOP asset on disk and imports the animated geometry output as a USD payload.

  • Hermite Curves

    Creates or edits a hermite curves shape primitive.

  • Houdini Feather Procedural

    Generates feathers for rendering.

  • Houdini Preview Procedurals

    Invokes Houdini Procedurals while working interactively.

  • Houdini Procedural: Crowd

    Houdini Crowd Procedural for Solaris.

  • Houdini Procedural: Hair

    Houdini Hair Procedural for Solaris.

  • Houdini Procedural: Ocean

    Houdini Ocean Procedural for Solaris.

  • Houdini Procedural: RBD

    Houdini RBD Procedural for Solaris.

  • Inline USD

    Parses usda code representing a layer and adds it to the layer stack.

  • Insertion Point

    Represents a point in the node graph where nodes can be inserted.

  • Instancer

    Instances or copies primitives onto points.

  • Isolate Scene

    Work in masked areas of the stage.

  • Karma

    Renders the USD scene using Houdini’s Karma renderer.

  • Karma Cryptomatte

    Setup Cryptomatte AOVs for Karma.

  • Karma Fog Box

    Creates a constant volume within a box.

  • Karma Physical Sky

    Creates a Karma Sky Dome and Sun Light rig.

  • Karma Render Products

    Create multiple render products sharing common settings.

  • Karma Render Properties

    Configure Render Properties for Karma.

  • Karma Sky Atmosphere

    Creates or edits a Karma Sky Atmosphere.

  • Karma Sky Dome Light

    Creates or edits a Karma Sky Dome Light.

  • Karma Standard Render Vars

    Create standard karma render vars (AOVs/Image Planes).

  • LPE Tag

    Manage Lights' LPE Tags.

  • Labs Karma AOVs for RenderMan Denoiser

    Generates AOVs for the Pixar RenderMan denoiser.

  • Layer Break

    Starts a new active sublayer that subsequent nodes will edit, and indicates all previous layers will be discarded when saving to disk.

  • Layer Replace

    Replaces all uses of a certain layer with a substitute layer from its second input.

  • Layout

    Provides tools for populating a scene with instanced USD assets. You can place individual components, paint/scatter components in different ways using customizable brushes, and edit existing instances.

  • Light

    Creates or edits a USD Light prim. This node also adds some useful Karma-specific attributes.

  • Light Filter Library

    Authors USD light filter primitives from VOP nodes.

  • Light Linker

    Creates USD light link properties based on rules.

  • Light Mixer

    Lets you interactively edit USD properties for multiple lights.

  • Load Layer for Editing

  • Loft Payload Info

    Adds basic information from inside a payload to the primitive that loads the payload.

  • Look At Constraint

    Constrains a prim to always point toward a target.

  • Mask from Bounds

    Sets a primvar based on whether/by how much selected prims are inside a bounding shape.

  • Match Size

    Resizes and recenters the input geometry to match a reference bounding box.

  • Material Library

    Authors USD material primitives from shader VOP nodes.

  • Material Linker

    Creates material assignments based on rules.

  • Material Variation

    Creates attributes/primvars to override material parameters per-prim/instance.

  • Merge LOP

    Merges the layers from incoming stages into a unified layer stack.

  • Merge Point Instancers

    Merges point instancers into a single consolidated point instancer.

  • Mesh

    Creates or edits a mesh shape primitive.

  • Modify Paths

    Modify asset path attribute values.

  • Modify Point Instances

    Modifies point transforms and property values for individual point instances.

  • Motion Blur

    Adds time samples to allow motion blur when rendering.

  • Null

    This node does nothing. It can be useful to insert a Null into a network as a fixed point in the network that you can refer to by name in expressions/scripts.

  • Output

    Represents the output of a subnetwork. Allows you to design a node asset with multiple outputs.

  • Parent Constraint

    Makes a primitive appear to inherit the transform hierarchy of another prim somewhere else in the tree.

  • Points

    Creates or edits a Points shape primitive.

  • Points Constraint

    Position and Orient primitives using point positions from a geometry.

  • Primitive

    Bulk-creates one or more attributes of a certain type.

  • Prune

    Hides or deactivates primitives and point instances.

  • Python Script

    Lets you write Python code in the node to use the USD API to directly manipulate the stage.

  • RBD Destruction

    An example for a fracturing simulation in USD, also useful as a canned effect.

  • Reference

    References the contents of a external USD files and/or layers created by other LOP nodes into a branch of the existing scene graph tree. Can also remove or replace existing references.

  • Render Geometry Settings

    Applies renderer-specific geometry settings to geometry in the scene graph.

  • Render Product

    Creates or edits a UsdRenderProduct prim, which represents an output of a renderer (such as a rendered image file or other file-like artifact produced by a renderer), with attributes configuring how to generate the product.

  • Render Settings

    Creates or edits a UsdRenderSettings prim, which holds the general settings for rendering the scene.

  • Render Var

    Specifies a custom variable computed by the renderer and/or shaders, either a shader output or a light path expression (LPE).

  • Resample Transforms

    Generates interpolated transform time samples from existing time samples on USD prims.

  • Restructure Scene Graph

    This node has various operations for editing prim paths, variant sets, and composition arcs.

  • Retime Instances

    Offsets and/or scales the timing of animation on selected instances.

  • SOP Character Import

    Imports a character or animation from a SOP network into the USD scene graph.

  • SOP Create

    Lets you create geometry in a SOP subnetwork inside this node, so you can create geometry in-place in the LOP network instead of needing a separate SOP network.

  • SOP Crowd Import

    Imports a crowd from a SOP network into the USD scene graph.

  • SOP Import

    Imports geometry from a SOP network into the USD scene graph.

  • SOP Modify

    Converts USD geometry into SOP geometry, runs the SOP subnet inside this node on the geometry, and converts the changes back to USD overrides.

  • Scene Doctor

    Validates primitives on a USD stage.

  • Scene Import

    Imports models, materials, and lights from the Object level into the LOP network.

  • Scope

    Creates a scope primitive. Scope is the simplest form of grouping, and does not have a transform. Scopes can be useful for organizing the scene tree.

  • Set Extents

    Sets the bounding box metadata of selected primitives.

  • Set Variant

    Selects (switches to) one of the variants stored in a variant set on a primitive.

  • Simulation Proxy

    Generates low-poly collison geometry suitable for physical simulation and creates a proxy relationship to the original model.

  • Sphere

    Creates or edits a sphere shape primitive.

  • Split Point Instancers

    Splits a point instancer into two or more instances, which divide up the original instances.

  • Split Primitive

    Splits USD geometry prims into child primitives based on geometry subsets or primvar values.

  • Split Scene

    This node splits a scene graph into two disjoint sets of primitives.

  • Stage Manager

    Provides a convenient interface to reference in many files at once and place them in the scene graph tree.

  • Store Parameter Values

    Lets you store temporary (unsaved) data in the stage.

  • Sublayer

    Imports from USD files or other LOP node chains into as sublayers, or removes/replaces/reorders existing sublayers.

  • Subnet

    Encapsulates a LOP subnetwork, allowing you to organize and hide parts of the network.

  • Surface Constraint

    Constrain a prim to stick to a surface.

  • Switch

    Passes through one of several inputs, based on a parameter choice or expression.

  • TimeShift

    Outputs the stage as it is at a different point in the timeline.

  • Transform

    Edits the transforms of selected USD primitives.

  • Transform UV

    Moves, rotates, and scales texture coordinates on USD primitives.

  • USD ROP

  • USD Render ROP

  • Unassign Material

    Unbinds a material from one or more USD primitives.

  • Value Clip

  • Vary Material Assignment

    Assign different materials across a number of prims to create variation.

  • Volume

    References volume data on disk into a volume prim containing field prims.

  • Xform

    Creates or edits an Xform prim. Xform (and its sub-classes) represents a transform in the scene tree.