Arnold for Maya. The current version of Arnold for. The Arnold SDK allows developers to interface to the Arnold renderer. The current version of the Arnold SDK is 6.0.4.1. Use for rendering. It also controls how long you can use Arnold. The license server is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Windows Windows.exe Installer. Solid Angle Maya to Arnold 4.0.1 for Maya 2018-2020 (Win/Mac/Lnx) 2.42 GB (Total) Arnold for Maya (or MtoA) provides a bridge to the Arnold renderer from within the standard Maya interface. Getting Started With Solid Angle’s Arnold Renderer for Maya Ben Greasley of spherevfx presents a few tutorials showing off the Arnold Renderer inside of Maya, and shows some features such as the render settings, Arnold Standard Shaders, Arnold’s method for creating render passes, Cameras in Arnold, and setting up Image based Lighting in Arnold. Install Backburner and Maya in the same folder location on each of your render farm nodes. Therefore, you cannot mix Windows render nodes with Linux render nodes or Windows render nodes with Mac OS X render nodes and so forth. Your project must be accessible from all the render nodes in your backburner setup.
Arnold for Maya is included with a default install of Maya 2017 via the mtoa.mll plug-in. This plug-in is auto-loaded, and Arnold is set as the preferred renderer in Maya. More information about Arnold for Maya can be found in the Autodesk Maya User Guide. More information about changes to rendering in Autodesk Maya 2017 can be found here.
A guide to transitioning to Arnold for Maya 2017 can be found here.
Release Date
July 25, 2016
This version uses the Arnold 4.2.14.0 core.
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ARNOLD BUGFIXES
Lights
- Arnold lights (area light, skydome light, photometric light, mesh lights) can now be created from the Light Editor, visualized in the viewport, and used as light sources.
- (Note: skydome and mesh lights wip).
- Color management is supported by the Ai Skydome light and Ai Sky shader.
- Light blockers are supported in the viewport.
Shaders
- You can render in the Hypershade Material Viewer with Arnold.
- Nodes from the lookdevKit plug-in are supported by Arnold.
- Arnold shaders support the custom mode (hotkey 4 mode) in the Node Editor and the Hypershade, and the Lookdev template view in the Hypershade Property Editor.
Support in Viewport 2.0 for the following features:
- Stand-ins are supported in the viewport in different draw modes; for example: Wireframe, Shaded, and Bounding Box, and so forth. Instancing of stand-ins is also supported.
- Volume node.
- Ai Sky shader display.
- Arnold shaders support smooth mesh preview, including all the OpenSubdiv modes.
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Color management
- Maya Color Management is now supported by the Arnold RenderView, where you can change the view transform from the preferences.
- The automatic conversion of any texture to the .tx format now supports Maya color management. The input color space and the rendering color space are now used by maketx to color manage the texture just before the mip-mapping.
- (Note: MakeTx awaiting integration)
AOV's
- AOV's can now be exported from / imported into a scene, and overrides created via the Maya Render Setup system.
UV Tiling
- All 3 UV tile modes (0-based, 1-based, UDIM) are now supported by Arnold.