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uRenderer

USD stage renderer and AOV output

Renders a USD stage into a 2D image or AOV layers with camera, renderer backend, lighting, complexity, render-purpose, auxiliary-channel and color-management controls.

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uRenderer

Overview

What uRenderer does

uRenderer is the boundary where the USD graph becomes pixels. It accepts the assembled stage and decides which camera, render backend, AOV, lighting mode, resolution, bit depth and color space should be used for the result.

When to use it

USD beauty rendering
Depth and ID AOVs
Lighting diagnostics
High-bit-depth technical passes
USD-to-2D compositing handoff

uRenderer in context

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**uRenderer Controls: Camera, Renderer Type, AOV, Lighting, Complexity, Render Purpose and Aux Channels**
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**uRenderer AOV menu with color, primId, depth, cameraDepth and Neye**
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**uRenderer Film Back Fit menu: Camera, Inside, Width, Height, Outside and Stretch**
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**uRenderer Image tab with resolution, depth, overscan and color space controls**
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