This tutorial takes you through the essentials of our new USD 3D system. Discover how to add and manipulate geometry, work with materials, and add lights. Find out how the new scene graph makes it easy to manage a scene and make fine edits to your geometry hierarchy.

We look at the Hydra Viewer, which moves your viewer's capabilities closer to render quality. Also, the tutorial outlines new workflows for rendering and exporting your 3D scenes.