KtoA 2.0.1.0 - Arnold for Katana

Download and Installation

Arnold, KtoA, and other downloads are available here .  Installation instructions come with KtoA, but can also be viewed here: Installation .

Compatibility

• Arnold: 5.0.0+
• Katana: 2.5v4+
• Platforms:
  • Linux: x86-64, RHEL 6+ or compatible glibc
  • Windows: 7+ on x86-64, with VC++ 2015 redistributable installed

Enhancements

• Update to Arnold 5.0.0.2 : the latest bug-fix version of Arnold is included, with many important fixes over 5.0.0.

• Live rendering improvements : more parameter changes will be reflected in live rendering.

  • Enum shader parameter updates are applied. (174)

  • Matrix shader parameter updates are applied. (176)

  • Shaders connected to quad_light and skydome_light color and/or shader parameters, when changed, automatically flush caches and show the changes. (173)

  • Light intensities and changes corrected. (173)

  • Camera global and shutter settings now update properly (3, #178)

• Added missing camera parameters : a handful of particular camera parameters were missing, but are now added: (179)

  • horizontal_fov and vertical_fov : the cyl_camera now can have these additional controls set.

  • autocrop : the fisheye_camera can now crop to the visible region, eliminating black spots where no rays are traced.

  • uv_remap : the persp_camera now allows a shader to be attached to remap the red/green UV space for distortion effects.

• vr_camera added : Arnold 5 provides a built-in VR camera. This is now exposed, together with its parameters. Please see the documentation for more information. (161)

• Faster string operations : KtoA takes much better advantage of Arnold core AtString now, resulting in slightly faster translation time before the render starts, especially for large and complex scenes with many locations. (177)

• XGen for Maya 2018 fixes : A couple of additions for Maya 2018's version of XGen were added; multithreaded XGen generation is now turned on, and a missing library on Linux is now loaded. (164)

Bug Fixes

• #3 Shutter info not set properly during live rendering

• #174 Enum parameter changes not reflected in live rendering

• #175 Crash in live rendering at start of render

• #178 Live camera changes not honored until render settings changed