KtoA 4.3.3.1 - Arnold for Katana
9 August 2024
KtoA 4.3.3.1 uses Arnold 7.3.3.1 and is a bugfix release.
Installation
- Download the Arnold for Katana plugin
- Follow these installation instructions
Katana 4.5 and 5.0 compatibility
Katana 4.5v3 and 5.0v3 introduced a change that affects the Arnold USD plugins support in Katana. This release of KtoA supports those Katana versions or newer within their release series. Katana 4.5v1, 4.5v2, 5.0v1, and 5.0v2 are not supported by this KtoA release.
Bug Fixes
- ARNOLD-15321 - Hang when
force_update
metadata is used - ARNOLD-15322 - Rare hang in deep_exr driver
- ARNOLD-15339 -
AiNodeAddDependency()
does not work for render session options node - ARNOLD-15343 - Toon contour_filter produces lighter lines with interactive renders
- usd#1989 - Support mixed half/float channels when using the render delegate in batch mode with husk.
- usd#1610 - Proper support of arnold:visibility primvar in hydra
System Requirements
- 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.
- 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 require an NVIDIA GPU with the Maxwell architecture or later.
- On Linux, we recommend 535.104 or higher drivers.
- On Windows, we recommend 537.13 or higher drivers.
- Intel OIDN GPU support is limited to:
- MacOS
- Apple native CPUs (M1 and newer)
- 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
- MacOS
- Katana 4.5v3 or newer, Katana 5.0v3 or newer, Katana 6.0v1 or newer, Katana 6.5v1 or newer, or Katana 7.0v1 or newer.