I even updated Arnold per your suggestion in this post, as that would never have occurred to me to do otherwise. I tried everything I could think of, but in it looks like it’s either convoluted or absent.
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I feel silly, but I couldn't figure out how to setup shadow catcher material for Arnold. I really hope Solidangle realizes how lucky they got to have you on their team. To me it looks like you joined AD to make Max 2012 as amazing as it was and have been improving Max ever since. Max improved measurably with you behind the wheel. Your logic behind MR material parameters looked like a natural improvement that was translated into the Physical material. I enjoyed your fxphd MRY201 production rendering tutorials. I will probably start a new blog for Arnold related rendering stuff going forward, coz posting it on a half-dead blog called "mental ray tips" seems. I hope you guys will enjoy playing with Arnold 5 in 3ds max.
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Arnold 5 is a pure joy to code for, and Solid Angles willingess to simply remove and delete old stuff is very uplifting (but scary too :) ) I am extremely happy to be working with Arnold and the Solid Angle team, and it's a fantastic piece of technology. That allows seamless mixing of materials including the AOVs (which are actually light path expressions), as well as mixing C++ based shaders with OSL shaders however one wants. A material shader returns mix of BxDF closures, and the renderer itself takes care of doing "the right thing" with them. No longer are material shaders little dumb raytracers that count lights and shoot reflection rays. This relegates the work of rendering to the renderer, as it should be. The addition of "closures" is a complete godsend. It's a giant step up from the old Arnold 4 both in features and technology, but more importantly in "cleanliness" of the API and its internal concepts. Release newer stuff same day!Īrnold 5 is an amazing piece of technology, and working with it has been a complete joy. (Yes, even same day as 3ds max 2018 was released with MAXtoA built in, we released a new MAXtoA that was 100 builds newer. The one that ships with max is build 712.
So when you do get 3ds max 2018 you will find Arnold 5 inside it - in the form of the MAXtoA plugin. The last year for me has been busy as hell, but insanely fun!! We've done the impossible, and integrated a renderer fully in one year!
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