5.5.2.9 - Arnold for 3ds Max
03 Feb 2023
MAXtoA 5.5.2.9 is a bugfix release using Arnold 7.1.4.2. For the full list of features and requirements, see the MAXtoA 5.5.0.7 release notes.
Installation
- Download Arnold for 3ds Max.
- Follow these installation instructions.
Bugfixes
- ARNOLD-8417 - Memory leaks when using
kick -turn
- ARNOLD-11020 - Quad light color not automatically updated in IPR
- ARNOLD-12083 - Remove unused
-gpu_cache_dir
kick flag - ARNOLD-12646 - Motion blurred quad_light is not visible to camera until second node_update
- ARNOLD-12842 - Fix possible memory leak when assigning structurally equal array to a node
- ARNOLD-12845 - Crash report sent even when Arnold is not used
- ARNOLD-12863 - License incorrectly released when multiple renders are running and some have
skip_license_check
turned on - ARNOLD-12872 - AutoTX regression with inverted view transforms
- ARNOLD-12876 - Crash with ginstanced points
- ARNOLD-12891 - Crash when imager is passed to deep driver
- ARNOLD-12895 - AutoTX keeps original file open after creating TX file
- ARNOLD-12905 - AiErrorReporting* python bindings are missing
- ARNOLD-12923 - Arnold crash reporting does not work in non-ascii directories
- ARNOLD-12928 - Crash if the instancer source node list contains null
System Requirements
- Autodesk 3ds Max 2021, 2022, 2023
- Windows 10 or later, with the Visual Studio 2019 redistributable.
- CPUs need to support the SSE4.1 instruction set.
- GPU rendering requires an NVIDIA GPU of the Ampere, Turing, Volta, Pascal, or Maxwell architecture. We recommend using the [511.09 (Quadro), 511.09 (GeForce) drivers, or higher. See Arnold GPU for more information.
- Optix™ denoiser requires an NVidia GPU with CUDA™ Compute Capability 5.0 and above.
The driver type must be set to DCH.
In 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.