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title: "Layout Stage"
canonical: "https://rmanwiki-25.pixar.com/space/RFH25/22642889/Layout%20Stage"
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**RenderManStudio_Layout_v01.hip**  
  
This scene is where the layout magic happens.    
  
The *$HIP/usd/Assembly/RenderManStudio_Assembly_v01.usda *file is referenced and then using both the *setvariant *and *edit *nodes, the assets are laid out and the scene formed.    
  
Feel free to drop a camera here as well, but don't forget to add a *layerbreak *node if you don't want that layout camera to be saved

> Macro (inline-media-image)

  
  
Once happy with the layout, use the *usd_Layout* USD rop to save out the layout file *$HIP/usd/Layout/RenderManStudio_Layout_v1.usda - *ready to be loaded in the next and final stage -[ Lighting, FX, and Rendering !! ](https://renderman.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RFH25/Lighting+Stage)