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Building USD Plugins - Arnold for Katana

Since KtoA 3.1.0.0, a custom fork of KatanaUsdPlugins is included with the KtoA installer targeting Katana 3.5, 3.6, and 4.0. The Autodesk fork contains tags for each KtoA release, in the form of KtoA-<version>. There are situations when a local build is preferred over the one included in the KtoA installer. The build can be completed following the official guide, but the installed plugin's structure is slightly changed.

The updated environment setup instructions:

Linux :

 export KATANA_RESOURCES=$KATANA_RESOURCES:/path/to/usd_for_katana/plugin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/path/to/usd_for_katana/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/path/to/usd_for_katana/plugin/Libs 

Windows :

 set KATANA_RESOURCES=%KATANA_RESOURCES%;C:/path/to/usd_for_katana/plugin
set PATH=%PATH%;C:/path/to/usd_for_katana/lib
set PATH=%PATH%;C:/path/to/usd_for_katana/Libs 

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