15 Jul 2022

MtoA 5.1.3.3 introduces Arnold 7.1.2.2 and is a hot fix release bringing several fixes.

Installation

• Download the Arnold for Maya plugin
• Follow these installation instructions .

System Requirements

• Maya  2020, 2022 or 2023

• Windows 10 or later, with the Visual Studio 2019 redistributable.

• Linux with at least glibc 2.17 and libstdc++ 4.8.5 (gcc 4.8.5). This is equivalent to RHEL/CentOS 7.

• macOS 10.13 or later .

• CPUs need to support the SSE4.1 instruction set. Apple Mac models with M series chips are supported under Rosetta 2 mode.

• GPU rendering works on Windows and Linux only and requires an NVIDIA GPU of the Ampere, Turing, Volta, Pascal, or Maxwell architecture.

• Optix™ denoiser requires an NVidia GPU with CUDA™ Compute Capability 5.0 and above.

• We recommend using the 511.09 (Quadro), 511.09 (GeForce) , or higher on Windows and 495.46 or higher drivers on Linux . See Arnold GPU for more information.

• The driver type must be set to DCH.

^{I n the driver page select "Windows Driver Type:" DCH}

The cache will also need to be re-populated after installing a new Arnold version, updating to a new NVIDIA driver , or changing the hardware configuration of GPUs on the system. More information can be found here .

Maya Plugins Compatibility

MtoA 5.1.3.2 works with the following Maya plugins

• Bifrost Extension for Maya 2.4.0.0
• MayaUSD 0.18.0 (USD 21.11)

Bug Fixes

• ARNOLD-12443 Crash when calling AiUniverseCacheFlush on a skydome light without a render session
• ARNOLD-12345 [GPU] skydome_light not updating when disabled
• ARNOLD-12365 Fix python bindings with types for fixed arguments in variadic functions
• ARNOLD-12438 Update python bindings for python 3