Thanks for this wonderful tut man. very celar and easy to follow

for this step 11:40 i selected all my books, deselected the groups and then i pressed the down arrow key and all the shape nodes got selected instead

Lovely! Thanks!

Great tutorial. For anyone wanting to select all shape nodes without python, you can select all desired objects (within their groups), and hit the down arrow. It will select all shape nodes for you in situations where names are random or not sequential. Also, the rmanC string (hint) is not just random, and the presenter really know his stuff. You can find all the juicy tidbits on what else can be used here https://renderman.pixar.com/resources/RenderMan_20/rfmPrimVars.html

nice man, keep up the good stuff

Hey, thanks for the tutorial! I was wondering how can I do the second part (the books) work with more than 4 texture, since there are just 4 colors?

thank you for Tutorial.  

is there a way to have the primvar values show up in a custom aov (for custom matte aovs, etc.) ?