While the new viewport is 7x to 10x faster, Katana 3.0 itself now starts up and loads files 1.5x faster than previous versions. Katana is the same and the team have done a lot of work since Katana 2.6. No matter what program you use, how much work you get done always comes down to performance.

This new viewport is the game changer all Katana artists have been waiting to have at their fingertips.

To compliment this new level of user experience, there’s a set of artist-friendly transform handles, a rich API for creating custom object drawing and manipulators. Now artists can load huge scenes and view larger portions of their work with buttery-smooth interaction. Designed to render massively complex scenes, the Hydra viewport is a perfect addition to Katana’s Viewer API. Katana now features a new, modern viewport powered by Pixar’s USD Hydra technology.

With its highly efficient, collaborative approach to look development and lighting, Katana gives you the creative scope and scalability to meet the needs of today’s most demanding CG-rendering projects.

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