KtoA 4.3.6.1 - Arnold for Katana
29 January 2025
KtoA 4.3.6.1 uses Arnold 7.3.6.1 and is a bug-fix release. For the full list of features in KtoA 4.3.6, see the KtoA 4.3.6 release notes.
Installation
- Download the Arnold for Katana plugin
- Follow these installation instructions
Bug Fixes
- ARNOLD-15733 - [MaterialX] NodeGraph interface inputs with custom names do not render correctly with Arnold
- ARNOLD-15717 - [MaterialX] The defaultgeomprom input property on node definitions is ignored when the input has a NodeGraph interface
- ARNOLD-15741 -
kick -set driver_exr.filename
does not handle long strings - ARNOLD-15755 - Not calling AiEnd() results in an "Error 1 when uninitializing ADP"
- ARNOLD-15756 - Non-rectangular quad lights should be a warning instead of an error
- ARNOLD-15742 - driver_exr.custom_attributes do not work if you use Cryptomatte
- ARNOLD-15682 - If parameter is not in UI group metadata it is missing from kick -info
- ARNOLD-15836 - [GPU] Fix potential rare crash on exit or when deleting objects
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 7. For Katana 7.0 and newer, an equivalent of RHEL 8 or newer is required.
- x86-64 CPUs need to support the SSE4.1 instruction set.
- 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 560.35.03 or higher drivers.
- On Windows, we recommend 560.76 or higher drivers.
- Katana Katana 6.0v1 or newer, Katana 6.5v1 or newer, or Katana 7.0v1 or newer.
- Intel OIDN GPU support is limited to:
- Apple native CPUs (M1 and newer)
- 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