4.8.6.1 - Arnold for Cinema 4D

19 February 2026

C4DtoA 4.8.6.1 uses Arnold 7.4.5.1 and is a bugfix release. For the full list of features in C4DtoA 4.8.6, see the C4DtoA 4.8.6 release notes.

Installation

Download Arnold for Cinema 4D from your Autodesk Account. See Download Arnold for more information about downloading C4DtoA from your Autodesk Account.
Follow these installation instructions.

ARNOLD-17399 - IPR crash after deleting shapes
ARNOLD-17489 - Crash with invalid vdb points grid in point cloud queries
ARNOLD-17494 - Linux crash regression in 7.4.5.0
usd#2557 - Fix regression when a geometry has an instancer without any instances
usd#2547 - Changing material terminal is not updated with Hydra 2
usd#2536 - ArnoldUsd procedural filename is not reported as an asset

Windows 10 or later, with the Visual Studio 2019 redistributable.
Linux with at least glibc 2.28. This is equivalent to RHEL/Rocky 8.
macOS 11 or later.
x86-64 CPUs need to support the SSE4.1 instruction set. Apple Mac models with M-series chips are natively supported.
GPU rendering and OptiX denoising work on Windows and Linux only, and requires driver versions newer than 582.16/580.126 (Windows/Linux). Older drivers will log an error and abort the render. Note that you can use New Feature Branch drivers.
- On Linux, we recommend 590.48 or higher drivers.
- On Windows, we recommend 591.28 or higher drivers.
Intel OIDN GPU support is limited to:
- macOS
  - Apple native CPUs (M1 and newer)
- Linux
  - NVIDIA GPUs using Turing or newer architectures
- Windows
  - 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