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Following the release of Nuke 14.0 and Mari 6.0, Foundry has released its powerful look development and lighting tool, Katana 6.0. In Katana 6.0 a new Performance tab was introduced, as well as LiveShadingGroups and Material Solo features to simplify your creation process . According to Foundry, the two new USD improvements are designed to ensure that texturing pipelines are USD-ready. With the USD Look Exporter, artists can export a single USD Look file that contains all of the relevant shader information, reducing duplication of work in setting up USD Looks for use in Katana or other DCCs and bringing Look Development and Lighting together earlier on in the pipeline. Artists will also now have the ability to use Mari’s selection tools to assign materials to the correct USD face set-based location. Mari 6.0 also introduces a simpler way to execute Python Scripts actions using Python Snippets as Shelf items, so artists aren’t required to install Python Scripts into the Scripts path bef...