This book aims to offer a more human-readable and artist friendly way of learning Universal Scene Description (USD) and its jargon. It is not a replacement of the official USD Glossary, but more of a starting point for anyone new to the technology.

• Follow the instructions on https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started to install rust for your system
• Run rustup update to update rust to the latest version
• Run cargo install mdbook mdbook-catppuccin mdbook-admonish to install mdbook, mdbook-catppuccin and mdbook-admonish

Building is as simple as mdbook build -d <PATH TO OUTPUT_FOLDER>

Be sure to also run mdbook clean -d <PATH TO OUTPUT FOLDER> once in a while

You can also preview the book via mdbook serve --open to automatically compile and preview the book in your web browser