The new 3ds Max integration plugin for Arnold, MAXtoA, will also be bundled free with 3ds Max 2018.Īt the time of posting, it’s still officially described as a ‘preview’ release and doesn’t support all the features from either 3ds Max or Arnold, so we assume Autodesk expects it to reach a full 1.0 release by April. MAXtoA to be bundled free with 3ds Max 2018 Otherwise, the bundled version of Arnold will watermark offline renders where no valid licence is available.
Prices currently start at $1,220 for a single licence, with bulk discounts available. Use Arnold free when rendering via the 3ds Max GUI pay for command line or network rendersįor anyone who followed the release of Maya 2017 last year, for which Autodesk also moved from bundling Mental Ray to bundling Arnold, the news will come as little surprise.Īs with Maya 2017, the licence of Arnold bundled free with 3ds Max 2018 will be for foreground processing only: that is, rendering from a single machine via the GUI.įor background rendering via the command line, or to use a render farm, you’ll need commercial licences of Arnold.
Instead, users will get a free licence of Solid Angle’s Arnold renderer, which Autodesk acquired in 2016.
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