KtoA 3.0.4.3

Release Date

October 1, 2020

KtoA 3.0.4.3 is a hotfix release, using Arnold 6.0.4.1.

System Requirements

OSX 10.11 or later
Windows 7 or later, with the Visual Studio 2015 redistributable
Linux with at least glibc 2.12 and libstdc++ 3.4.13 (gcc 4.4.7). This is equivalent to RHEL/CentOS 6
CPUs need to support the SSE4.1 instruction set
Optix™ denoiser requires an NVidia GPU with CUDA™ Compute Capability 5.0 and above
Arnold GPU works on Linux and Windows and requires an NVIDIA GPU of the Turing, Volta, Pascal, or Maxwell architecture. We recommend using the 450.57 or higher drivers on Linux and 451.77 or higher on Windows. See Getting Started with Arnold GPU for more information.

Compatible Katana Versions

Katana 3.2v1+
Katana 3.5v1+
Katana 3.6v1+

Bug Fixes

#9968 [Alembic] crash with bezier curves with radius
#9974 [Alembic] curves don't create instances with make_instance enabled
#9924 [Alembic] curves:radius doesn't override the radius of curves in archive
#9957 [Alembic] remapping not working with alembic procedural
#9956 Allow camera matrices with small scaling values
#9901 Apply remapping and environment variables to the ocio_color_manager config file
#9919 Don't allow zero epsilon in bump3d
#9985 Duplicate output detection broken with non existent paths
#9907 [GPU] Incorrect results with some LPEs
#9951 Hang when rendering thin OpenVDB volumes
#9983 kick --help has "session is already started" warning
#9892 min_pixel_width does not properly apply to objects within transformed procedurals
#10022 [OSL] Don't error when OSL plugins are not loaded
#9948 [OSL] Linking of closure parameters broken
#8722 Reported AOV sample memory usage is too high
#9954 Setting texture wrap to MISSING mode results in black border
usd#488 Implementing HdRenderDelegate::CreateRenderDelegate(const HdRenderSettingsMap& settingsMap)
usd#513 Reading the matrix in points viewport mode
usd#518 Accept both string and token for the varname parameter when translating preview materials for the render delegate
usd#530 Fixing the cylinder light orientation

Installation

Download KtoA for your platform and Katana version.
Run the self-extracting installer. See the installation steps here.

Autodesk Network Licensing in Arnold 6 requires new license files with an updated 2020 version. Please follow the instructions on this page to generate your license file. More info about Arnold 6 licensing can be found here.