Kit 106.5 Release Highlights#

Release Date: December 2024

Kit SDK 106.5 is a minor update release of Kit.

Kit SDK#

Kit App Template#

Improved new_project flow in Kit SDK, using the Kit App Template.

Stage Window#

Added an option to show or hide inactive prims.
Added an option to show or hide abstract prims.

Extension Window#

Improved MarkDown support for extension overviews with tables and code snippets. Enabled default filter for Featured extensions and enabled tokenized search widget.

USDZ#

Asset Exporter now exposes USDz export from the File -> Export menu.

For a full list of changes, see the Kit 106.5 Release Notes.

RTX Rendering#

In this release, we’ve exposed an option which allows you to enable a preview of a new RTX Real-Time mode which will eventually replace the current real-time mode. It provides an improved user experience by having fewer settings to adjust, while achieving closer parity with the RTX Interactive mode’s visual fidelity and feature set such as Light Linking, AOVs, and Multi Matte. It is backwards compatible and should result in, at a minimum, the same quality or better than the current one without having to change any setting or content.

To view the full RTX Rendering release notes for Kit 106.5, see RTX Rendering Release Notes.

Materials#

Material Graph Editor’s Node List has new groupings for MDL shaders.

To view the full Materials release notes for Kit 106.5, see Materials Release Notes.