Arnold over the past 5 years
3
Releases
10
Updates
61
Enhancements
Arnold enhancement timeline
7 | 7.1 | 7.2
featured enhancements for Arnold
- Toon Shader
- Distance Shader
- Global Light Sampling
- Native Support for Apple CPUs
- Color Management in Arnold for 3ds Max 2024
- Improved Workflow for Texture Files
- Native Support for Apple CPUs
- Import and Export of Imager Presets
- Improved Light Manipulators in Arnold for Katana
- Arnold 3ds Max Scene Converter
- OptiX 7 Denoiser
- Triplanar shader
- Enhanced post-processing nodes
- GPU scalability
6 | 6.1 | 6.2
featured enhancements for Arnold
- Bloom in imager
- Light Mixer imager
- Noice denoiser imager
- OptiX denoiser imager
- Enhanced USD Support
- OpenColorIO v2 integration
- Nested Dielectrics
- Dielectric microfacet multiple scattering
- Improved Oren-Nayer Diffuse Roughness Mapping
- More accurate albedo AOVs
- Improved rough thin-wall transmission in standard_surface
- Physial Sky Shader Improvements
Image courtesy of Lee Griggs
5 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 5.4
featured enhancements for Arnold
- Support for Bifrost
- GPU support for OSL & Open VDB
- GPU support for Volume displacement and volume sample shaders
- Clip Geo shader
- Less noise in progressive sampling
- Alembic support improvements
- Enhanced MaterialX support
- Improved adaptive & skydome sampling
- Enhanced usability for Standard Surface
- Cell Noise shader
- Sheen function in the Standard Surface shader
- Texture baking supported with a native render-to-texture
- Improved sampling of spherical lights
- Faster adaptive subdivision
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