5.8.0.0 - Arnold for 3ds Max

26 March 2025

MAXtoA 5.8.0.0 is a feature release using Arnold 7.4.0.0.

Installation

Download Arnold for 3ds Max from your Autodesk Account. See Download Arnold for more information about downloading MAXtoA from your Autodesk Account.
Follow these installation instructions.

Support for 3ds Max 2026 MAXtoA 5.8.0.0 is the first release supporting 3ds Max 2026, and therefore, support for 3ds Max 2023 has been dropped.
Use of the 'Hydra' mode in the USD Stage object procedural is now optional The use of the Hydra mode in the Max USD stage object introduced in MAXtoA 5.7.8.0 can now be turned off, by checking the new option Legacy Translation Mode (MAXTOA-1872, MAXTOA-1939)
The Arnold Render View updated: Arnold RenderView has been updated to the latest version, which includes support for OpenColorIO 2.4.1 (MAXTOA-1930)
OpenPBR conversion: A new preset for the 3ds Max Scene Converter let's you convert Physical Material, Standard Surface, and the Arnold OpenPBR Surface to the new 3ds Max OpenPBR Material introduced in 3ds Max 2025 update 3 (MAXTOA-1909)

MAXTOA-1903 - Arnold Render View did not properly track which viewport to render when the viewport was maximized or minimized
MAXTOA-1908 - Fixed an intermittent crash when using the Pixel tab in Arnold Render View and pointing to an object after a production rendering has finished.

Autodesk 3ds Max 2024, 2025, 2026
Windows 10 or later, with the Visual Studio 2019 redistributable.
CPUs need to support the SSE4.1 instruction set.
GPU rendering works requires an NVIDIA GPU with the Maxwell architecture or later. We recommend 560.76 or higher drivers.
Optix denoiser requires an NVidia GPU with CUDA Compute Capability 5.0 and above.
Intel OIDN GPU support is limited to:
- Intel Xe dedicated and integrated GPUs
- NVIDIA GPUs using Turing or newer architectures
- AMD GPUs with RDNA2 (Navi 21 only) and RDNA3 (Navi 3x) architectures