User guide

Contents
1 Preface
Terminology
13
2 Katana For The Impatient
What Is Katana?
14
A Short History of Katana
15
Scene Graph Iterators
16
The Katana User Interface
16
Katana in Look Development and Lighting
17
Technical Docs and Examples
17
3 Custom Render Resolutions
Using the UI
18
Modifying the Resolutions XML
18
Using a Custom Resolutions XML
19
Using the Python API
19
4 Custom Node Colors
Flavors and Rules
21
Editing Rules 22
Editing Flavors 22
Updating Node Colors 23
Making Updates Persist 24
Flavor API
25
5 Message Logging
Message Levels
29
Loggers
29
Root Logger 29
Custom Logger 30
Logging Exceptions
31