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Real-time GPU path tracing with an OpenUSD Hydra render delegate

Is Autodesk/Aurora beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to Autodesk/Aurora to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
621
Forks
58
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
22
Dominant language
C++
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 14, 2026
Contributing guide
Code of conduct
Beginner labels
No beginner labels indexed
No merged PRs in 30d

How to contribute to Autodesk/Aurora

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
  4. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.
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  • Upgrading to latest version of slang (slang-2026.4.2) causes compile time error
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#43 · 4 comments ·

  • Boost install issues on Win64 w/VS2022
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#42 · 19 comments ·

  • What is the release cycle of this project? When will it be updated?
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#40 · 3 comments ·

  • OpenImageIO link error when building on macOS
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#37 · 1 comment ·

  • Help Building for Fedora Linux
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#36 · 4 comments ·

  • Build issues
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#35 · 4 comments ·

  • Houdini Solaris Support
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#34 · 4 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • Denoiser capabilities? Error on missing Denoiser.cpp/h
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#33 · 3 comments ·

  • UsdView: Failed to load plugin ImageProcessingResolver for ImageProcessingResolverPlugin
    Open
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#32 · 1 reaction ·

  • MacOS Build
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#31 · 1 comment ·

  • Questions
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#29 · 1 comment ·

  • Failed to create Hgi instance.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#28 · 5 comments ·

  • Deploying HdAurora - Windows 10
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#26 ·

  • usdview any usda file with Aurora will crash
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#23 · 1 comment ·

  • HdAurora deployment on Linux and usdview rendering issues
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#19 · 3 comments ·

  • Plasma shutdown after rendering
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#17 · 4 comments ·

  • What version of maya will automatically load this tool, is there a chance for maya2024
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#16 · 1 comment · 2 reactions ·

  • Build folder structure of Autodesk fork of USD
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#14 · 1 comment ·

  • usdview: Failed to load plugin hdAurora
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#11 · 8 comments ·

  • Plasma.exe quits on launching with Vulkan
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#9 · 6 comments ·

  • Codeing Error in HdAurora
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#7 ·

  • [Enhancement Request]: Standard Surface implementation
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Autodesk/Aurora#6 · 2 comments ·

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