Solid Angle 3ds Max To Arnold 4.0.2.24 для 3ds Max 2018-2020

Enhancements:

• Update to Arnold 6.0.2.0.
• New USD procedural.
• New string_replace operator.
• Supporting the physical camera's tilt correction and lens distortion.
• Controllable auto-instancing on ASS procedurals.
• Faster procedural initialization.
• Reduced noise on smooth transmissive thin-walled surfaces.
• Autodesk analytics program available for Windows.
• OpenEXR updated to version 2.4.

Fixes:

• Noice AOVs always written to the same file 
• Multiple keys of an animated alembic file display in viewport and ActiveShade
• Misaligned UI in Active Shade floating window on a 4K monitor
• Excess memory usage of non-deep/raw filters in progressive render mode
• Prevent Arnold from loading the same plugin twice
• [GPU] Artifact in shadows cast by volumes
• [GPU] Cache population hangs when Optix creates too many threads
• [GPU] Crash on GPU rendering error
• [GPU] Increasing the scene size triggers a recompilation of all Optix programs
• [GPU] IPR does not update after changing light filters
• [GPU] Missing channels are not correctly initialized on non-RGBA textures
• [GPU] Volume displacement difference when using a ramp to drive displacement
• [Licensing] Sign-in window flies offscreen on high-dpi laptop the first time after a reboot

Enhancements:

• Update to Arnold 6.0.1.0.
•  New AOV and Light Groups interface.
•  Extend the Arnold Properties modifier for cameras.
• OSL version of the physical sun and sky shader.
• Export/Import materials as .ass/.mtlx files.
• Include the Arnold License Manager.
• Expose aov_write_vector.
• Remove the operator graph button from the rendering options.
• Switch to 4-digit installer.

Fixes:

• Crash with an Alembic object instanced in GPU mode.
• Various OSL maps not rendering correctly in GPU mode. 
• Procedural and volume object's On Frame label is wrong and confusing.
• Poor support for animated procedurals and volumes.
• MAXtoAInterface.MAXtoAVersion()/ArnoldVersion() print strangely in Windows 7.
• Quad lights set to portal should not contribute to lighting in viewport.

Enhancements:

• Update to Arnold 5.4.0.2.

Fixes:

• Fixing the Arnold top menu.
• Bluish material editor preview when showing its background.

Enhancements:

• Update to Arnold 5.4.0.0.
• Support Arnold lights in the viewport.
• Add a viewport representation for Procedurals and Alembics.
• Support changes in rendering settings in Activeshade.
• Support baking of height maps.
• Support baking of normal maps.
• Expose the clip_geo shader.
• Alembic layers.
• Expose the aov_read shaders.
• Expose MAXtoA and Arnold versions to maxscript.

Fixes:

• GPU: error in ActiveShade editing the scene before the render has started.
• Making changes to scene while GPU cache is being populated crashes Arnold.
• Clearing a procedural's operator while ActiveShade is running will crash Max.
• The results of some maps from Arnold Multipass baking are not correct.
• After an operator export, editing operator connections while Activeshade is running will crash Max.
• AOVs and Drivers cannot be created from maxscript.
• MapToMaterial - Deleting the map crashes in activeshade.
• Baked outputs are always clamped.
• Multi/Sub-Object material ON/OFF toggle not working in Arnold.

Enhancements:

• Update to Arnold 5.3.1.0.
• Use denoise_albedo in place of diffuse_albedo for noice.
• New wrap_uvs parameter in the ramp_float and ramp_rgb shaders.
• New clamp and default_color parameters in the uv_projection shader.

Fixes:

• Baking failing when a displacement map is used.
• Crash when baking if something is connected to material's displacement.
• Crash on outputting denoise AOVs without saving to file.
• Photometric light failing on some IES files.
• Max freezes when switching Mesh Light from Texture to Color mode.
• Arnold menu behaving randomly.
• Bitmap rendering with seams if offset in U/V.
• Hiding operators references in Procedural and Alembic for Max 2018.

Fixes:
- Abort on Error should default off in Activeshade
- Bitmaps sharing the same name translating incorrectly
- Unwanted messages on startup when redirecting to file
- Expose the closest filter
- Log the name of Bitmaps with void filename
- Crash if a light is turned off while Active Shade is running
- MaterialX operator doesn't render textures on a second render pass

Fixes:

• Fail detecting the NVIDIA driver version on locales using comma decimal separator
• Bitmaps sharing the same name translating incorrectly
• GPU: crash with mesh light in Active Shade
• GPU: fixing some pre-populate cache defects
• GPU: exposing the pre-populate command as a button in the rendering options too
• Physical sun and sky: disc intensity not working
• Update to Arnold 5.3.0.1

Enhancements:
- GPU rendering (BETA): you can now switch between CPU and GPU render devices interactively and expect visually similar results. NVIDIA GPUs from Turing to Maxwell architectures are supported, and Arnold will take advantage of multiple GPUs, NVLink and NVIDIA® RTX hardware accelerated raytracing if available. Note that due to beta status of GPU rendering, a number of features are missing, performance is not final, and use in production is not advised. We plan to gradually improve this in subsequent releases and would appreciate your feedback. For a complete description of requirements, features and caveats, see Getting Started With Arnold GPU.
- Improved adaptive sampling: adaptive sampling now uses a more effective criterion. With the new metric, pixels are being dropped gradually in a smoother and much more predictable manner,resulting much lower render times for identical noise levels.
- Improved skydome sampling: Arnold now takes into account the normal of the shading point whenimportance sampling the skydome. Therefore bright areas in theskydome are less likely to "steal" samples when they are below the normal. Even for more uniformly colored skydomes, the improved sampler will waste fewer samples in directions that are below the hemisphere, allowing for lower skydome light sample rates to be used which should give a noticeable speedup.
- Visible lights: the quad, disk, cylinder and point lights now have a camera and a transmission attribute, allowing these lights to become visible inrender.
- Microfacet multiple scattering: the GGX microfacet BSDF used in the standard_surface shader has been improved to account for multiple scattering between the microfacets, which is more physically correct and reduces energy loss on reflection, especially at higher roughness settings.
- Improved random-walk SSS: a new randomwalk_v2 SSS mode has been added that scatters more accurately and deeply through highly-transparent/optically-thin objects, which produces SSS with more saturated colors around fine surface detail and heavily backlit regions of an object.
- Anisotropy controls forcoat in standard_surface.
- Smart opaque: built-in shaders now set their opaque flag automatically based on whether or not the shader settings would require disabling the opaque flag on the object to render correctly.
- Operator connection on procedurals: operator graphs can now be connected to procedural and alembic objects through the operator parameter. Only nodes in the procedural or nested procedurals are evaluated by the graph.
- New include_graph operator: the include_graph operator allows importing operator graphs and shaders froman .ass file.
- Improved ramp_rgb shader: several new interpolation modes were added, as well as an implicit_uvs parameter, which allowstouse barycentric implicit UVs to drive the ramp, instead of regular UVs. This last option can be particularly useful with hair.
- New uv_projection shader: this shader allows to do planar, spherical, cylindrical, ball, cubic and shrink_wrap projections.
- Faster .ass file writing: writing to .ass files, especially over some Windows networks, can be dramatically faster.
- Autobump visibility now exposed in the Arnold Properties.
- MaterialX export: the shaders applied to the geometry in the scene can be exported to aMaterialX document with a given look name from the render settings. The exported document contains the look development for the selected geometries including materials, shading graphs, geometry properties, and visibility settings. The look development can be applied using theMaterialX operator.
- Operators can now be grouped together in the Operator Graph.
- The Merge and Switch operators are now exposing the input ports.
- Improved UI for the Set Parameter operator.
- All the plugin-specific c++ shaders, used to translate some of the Max legacy maps (Bitmap, Blend, Multi/Sub Object, Particle Age, Physical Sun & Sky) have been replaced by Arnold native nodes, or graphs of them. As a result, exported .ass files should be kick-able under operative systems other than Windows.
Fixes:
- Memory spike when instancing Pflow shapes.
- ActiveShade re-translating Pflow shapes when orbiting.
- Arnold Properties -> Displacement -> Zero cannot be set to a negative value.
- Export Selected does not exportcurrentframe if Animationcheck boxnot selected.
- Cannot set Animation Start to more than 1000 inthe .ASS Exporter dialog box.

Enhancements:
Option to retranslate the scene on a frame change: a new flag, called Re-translate Scene on a Frame Change was added to the rendering options. If enabled, the scene is re-translated from scratch on a frame change, when rendering a sequence. By default, from frame to frame, MAXtoA re-translates only the elements that changed, but there could be cases where these elements are not detected correctly. This new option simply re-exports all to Arnold, of course at the cost of the full scene translation time.
Update to Arnold 5.2.0.1.
Fixes:
Point cloud with animated display volume not updating in animation.
Crash with legacy maps connected to Map to Material and legacy mode OFF.
Wrong Mode dropdown in vr_camera.
Minor toon shader layout improvement.

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Enhancements:
Texture Baking: the native render to texture workflow is now supported. The RTT UI has been extended to expose most of the Arnold AOVs as baking elements. Also, the following native Max baking elements can be rendered: CompleteMap, DiffuseMap, SpecularMap, ShadowsMap, LightingMap, AlphaMap, Ambient Occlusion (MR).
Sheen in standard_surface: the standard surface shader supports a new, energy-preserving sheen effect designed to render cloth-like microfiber materials such as velvet.
New cell_noise shader: A new cell_noise has been added which can create many different useful cell-like patterns. The color of each cell is mapped to a palette parameter, enabling the easy creation of patterns with colors chosen from a specific palette.
New controls in range_shader: The range shader has been augmented with parameters to control contrast, bias and gain.
RGB clamping in clamp shader: The clamp shader can now be configured to either a scalar or color mode.
Matrix shaders: two new matrix shaders, matrix_multiply_vector and matrix_transform have been added.
Built-in Cryptomatte: the Cryptomatte AOV shader is now included.
New control in toon shader: edge detection can now be controlled using a string type user data called toon_id, that can be applied to the objects through the Arnold Properties modifier. Otherwise, the detected edges based on ID will be driven by the object's own name.
Removed texture blur options: the texture blur parameters have been removed from the Arnold rendering options.
Improved sampling of spherical lights: a new technique for sampling point lights has been added which can show significant reductions in noise, especially for large lights illuminating surfaces at grazing angles.
Improved EXR read performance: threaded read performance and scaling of OpenEXR files has been greatly improved.
noice denoiser improvements: the stability and usability of the high-quality noice denoiser has been improved thanks to various bugfixes and improved error checking.
OptiX denoiser improvements: the GPU memory consumption of the fast OptiX denoiser has been greatly reduced proportionally to the number of denoised AOVs. Fringing artifacts around HDR pixels have been reduced.
Fixes:
Hash osl noise type now working.
Default ramp type for the Arnold ram shaders is now U instead of Custom.
Removed warnings about already declared user data in Active Shade.
The pre-pass rendering flag, if enabled, is now ignored in batch rendering mode.

Enhancements:
OptiX denoiser : the denoiser can now be applied on the beauty pass without needing to create extra AOVs.
Noice denoiser: noice.exe can now be run from a dedicated UI, exposed as a new tab in the rendering options.
Message logging system: the target file for the Arnold messages can now be set directly from the rendering options.
Structured stats and profiling: render statistics and profiling info can now be output to json files.
Fixes:
Fluids: rendering fluids as an Arnold Surface not working in Max 2018.
Crash when trying to change the number of points of the Ramp RGB map.
Wrong number of light, volume and alembic objects reported in the logged messages.
Undo-ing the Set Parameter operator can crash Max.

Enhancements:

• Float and RGB ramp shaders: the native Arnold ramp shaders are now exposed.  Ramp shaders are particularly useful when tonemapping the toon shader components.
• Fisheye, cylindrical and spherical cameras: these Arnold cameras are now available. Also, the VR camera layout has been updated.

Fixes:

• Fixed crashes related to the Optix denoiser library.
• Fixed crash with empty string parameters in OSL shaders.

Fixes:
Critical memory leak when rendering multiple frames of a Bifrost simulation.