MAXtoA 4.2.0 is a feature fix release, upgrading to Arnold 6.1.0.0.
See the Release Notes.
Installation
- Download Arnold for 3ds Max.
- Follow the installation instructions.
Compatible 3ds Max Versions
- 3ds Max 2019
- 3ds Max 2020
- 3ds Max 2021
System Requirements
- Windows 7 or later, with the Visual Studio 2015 redistributable
- 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 requires an NVIDIA GPU of the Turing, Volta, Pascal, or Maxwell architecture. We recommend using the 451.77 or higher drivers on Windows. See Getting Started with Arnold GPU for more information.
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.
Enhancements
Added support for PhongE to the Arnold conversion script : the Shader conversion script will now convert PhongE shader networks as well (mtoa#4338)
- Exposed USD overrides attribute: The
aiStandIn
node now exposes the USD procedural attributeoverrides
, which allows the user to add inline USD syntax (mtoa#4348)
Arnold Enhancements
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GPU Enhancements
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Incompatible Changes
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