How and where to access updates and downloads of the Arnold Plug-in for Maya. Note: Arnold updates are not included in Maya, regardless of when the installation occurs. Updates for the Arnold Renderer are published independently of Maya. To download the latest updates for Maya, follow these steps: Navigate to Autodesk Account and click Sign In Select Manage Products and Downloads from the menu. If you haven't done so already, you will need to download Arnold for Maya (MtoA) from the Solid Angle web site. After downloading the file, run the pkg (in Finder, double click the pkg file; in the Dock, click Downloads and then click the pkg file). The license key (ascii text) typically defines the version of Arnold you can use and the number of computers you can use for rendering. It also controls how long you can use Arnold. The license server is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Title: Solid Angle Maya To Arnold 4.0.2 for Maya 2018 – 2020 Win/Mac/Lnx. Info: Arnold for Maya (or MtoA) provides a bridge to the Arnold renderer from within Maya?s standard interface. MtoA is now shipping with the Arnold 5.0 core. Features Seamless integration with Maya shapes, cameras, lights. Learn more: Arnold Render News. New: Autodesk Maya 2020 and Arnold 6 are Now Available; Arnold Render 5.4 Release notes – 31 July 2019; Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU Public Beta – Now Available – 20 March 2019; What’s New in Arnold GPU, A Sneak Peek and Beta Information – 19 March 2019.

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Arnold 5.4’s new Clip Geo shader in action, in an image rendered by Autodesk in-house artist Lee Griggs.

Autodesk has unveiled Arnold 5.4, the latest version of the VFX-industry-standard production renderer, extending Arnold GPU, adding support for Bifrost for Maya, and a new Clip Geo shader for cutaway images.

The update, which was announced at Siggraph 2019, is due to ship later today.

Initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU
Arnold 5.4 extends Arnold GPU, the much-anticipated GPU rendering system introduced in Arnold 5.3 earlier this year, and still officially in beta.

The implementation is based on Nvidia’s OptiX ray tracing framework, and supports RTX, the firm’s hardware implementation of the DirectX Raytracing API, available in its current-gen RTX graphics cards.

The latest update fills in many of the major features missing from Arnold GPU in the 5.3 release, including Open Shading Languge, OpenVDB volumetrics, random walk subsurface scattering, and light portals.

Autodesk’s blog notes that there are “some limitations to OSL and OpenVDB support”. At the time of posting, the online list of features supported in Arnold GPU hadn’t been updated, but details should appear there.

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Support for Bifrost for Maya, plus a new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways
Other new features in Arnold 5.4 include support for Bifrost for Maya, the new visual progamming environment for physics simulations introduced in Maya 2019.2 and available as a plugin for Maya 2018.0+.

The toolset adds new combustion and aerodynamics solvers for fire and smoke, and a new Material Point Method (MPM) solver for granular fluids like snow and sand, cloth, and fine strands like hair and grass.

Arnold supports all of the Bifrost geometry types, including volumes, strands and instances.

The update also adds a Clip Geo shader for generating clipping planes when rendering cutaway images for product or architectural visualisations – or for more surreal effects like the image at the top of the story.

There are also further improvements to the renderer’s adaptive sampling and progressive sampling systems, and enhanced support for Alembic and MaterialX.

System requirements and availability
Arnold 5.4 is available for Windows 7+, RHEL/CentOS 6+ Linux and Mac OS X 10.9+. Integration plugins are available for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini, Katana and Maya, plus a legacy plugin for Softimage.

The software is rental-only, with subscriptions now starting at $65/month or $630/year. The plugins are free.

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Arnold GPU is supported on Windows and Linux only, and requires a compatible Nvidia GPU.

Read an overview of the new features in Arnold 5.4 and Arnold GPU on Autodesk’s product website

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If you haven't done so already, you will need to download Arnold for Maya (MtoA) from the Solid Angle web site.

After downloading the file, run the pkg (in Finder, double click the pkg file; in the Dock, click Downloads and then click the pkg file).
Agree to the License Agreement by clicking Continue and then Agree.
Select the disk where you want to install MtoA.
Choose if you want to install only the MtoA files, or if you want to configure Maya to use MtoA.
When the installer is ready, you will be asked for the admin password.
You should now see a message informing you that Arnold has been successfully installed.
To load MtoA in Maya, click Window. Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager
...and then load mtoa.bundle

Uninstalling

There is no automatic uninstaller for MtoA, but you can safely remove the folder where MtoA has been installed if you use Maya 2013 or later. If you are using Maya 2012, you need to edit the maya.env file as well to remove the references to MtoA.

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