5.4.2.6 - Arnold for 3ds Max

05 Oct 2022

MAXtoA 5.4.2 is a bugfix release. For the full list of features and requirements see the MAXtoA 5.4.0.37 release notes and it is built using Arnold core 7.1.3.2.

Installation

• Download Arnold for 3ds Max.
• Follow these installation instructions.

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), or higher on Windows. 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.

Bug Fixes

• MAXTOA-1494 - Physical Materials exported incorrectly to .ass due to blank helper shader names