October 2, 2015
Enhancements
- Up to 40% faster export of polygon meshes.
- EXR append mode now works properly.
- Improved OpenVDB plugin and shaders.
Linux installation notes
- Starting from SItoA 3.6.0 (which uses Arnold 4.2.6.0), the minimum requirements for Linux have been raised to the equivalent of RHEL/CentOS 6 for glibc and libstdc++. However, Softimage ships with a legacy libstdc++ that is put in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and that hijacks the system one, making it impossible to load the Arnold DSO. To fix this, one solution is to preload the system libstdc++ before launching Softimage:
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6
Another solution is to remove the libstdc++ from the Softimage install and let the system one take over, for example:cd my_softimage_install/Application/bin mv libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6.bak mv libstdc++.so.6.0.10 libstdc++.so.6.0.10.bak