Houdini Solaris USD Lighting Template

A free lighting template for Houdini Solaris, with a workflow built around USD. Developed with Houdini 20.5.

Files included:

• One scene for a single shot

• One scene for multiple shots

The template has four main parts:

• Imports and modifications

• Lighting: master lighting for the sequence, and shot lighting (edit the master and add more lights)

• Render settings, with a choice of render engine between Karma and Arnold (you can also render with RenderMan or others, but you will need to set them up manually)

• Render layers (background, middleground, foreground, FX and volume)

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

Need a ready-made rig to light your shots? make with houdini 20.5

See the Houdini Solaris Lighting Rig.