Arnold for Maya (or MtoA) provides a bridge to the Arnold renderer from within Maya's standard interface. Features.
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Seamless integration with Maya shapes, cameras, lights and shaders. Image Based Lighting support, including a state of the art physical sky. Interactive rendering (IPR) allows parameter changes to be rapidly previewed without interrupting your work. Support for volume rendering with Maya Fluids. Support for Maya Hair and nHair. Particles and nParticles support, including particle instancer. Defer the creation of geometry at render time with the Stand-in placeholder nodes.
Productivity boost: override sets, holdout mattes, shadow catcher, passes, UDIM style textures, and arbitrary primvar data. Extensible through plug-ins (Golaem, FumeFX for Maya, Yeti, Shave & Haircut). XGen integration. Texturable geometric lights. Rendering of curves. Free Trial Curious about Arnold? This trial will take you through step by step so you can get Arnold up and running in Maya.
Pricing The Arnold for Maya plug-in is provided free-of-charge to customers that buy the Arnold core renderer. Documentation Whether you are new to Arnold or not, the should answer most of your questions. The documentation consists of a and a section, and is available as html or pdf. Downloads Arnold for Maya is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and for various versions of Maya. Support You should be able to find the answer to most questions on.
Customers with a current maintenance and support contract can also email. Requirements & Platforms. Compatible with Maya 2016, 2016 Ext2, 2017 and 2018. Windows 7 and later. Linux RHEL6 equivalent (glibc 2.12) and later.
Mac OS X 10.8 and later. CPU with at least SSE 4.1 instructions (2006 and later Intel CPUs, and 2011 and later AMD CPUs).
. V-Ray. V-Ray IPR.
V-Ray Standalone. V-Ray license server. V-Ray tools. V-Ray SDK. WIBU-KEY drivers. Dongle (hardware lock) In order to complete a full installation of V-Ray 3.6 for Maya you need to:. Install the WIBU-KEY drivers (if using a hardware dongle).
Install the V-Ray license server or connect to one on your network Note: You need to use the license server provided with V-Ray 3.6 for Maya – using an older license server may not work with this version of V-Ray for Maya. The new license server will work fine with older versions of V-Ray for Maya. Install V-Ray for Maya All necessary installation files can be found in the V-Ray 3.6 for Maya installation archive. V-Ray 3.6 requires V-Ray License server 4.x! Installing the Dongle Drivers If you already have the WIBU-KEY drivers installed on the machine or you plan to use the Online License System, you can skip this section.
Otherwise, follow the steps below. Note: Please make sure that you have the proper USB drivers installed on your machine. Windows. Make sure that the dongle is NOT plugged-in.
Make sure your account has administrative privileges and run the installation file WkRuntime64.exe that came with the V-Ray 3.6 for Maya installation archive. Follow the instructions of the installer. You do not need to install the WIBU-KEY network server and monitor Mac OS X.
Make sure that the dongle is NOT plugged-in. Extract the file WkRuntimeUser6.20.502.dmg that came with the V-Ray 3.6 for Maya installation archive and double click it to mount the image. A folder with the WIBU-KEY installation files will open. Double-click on the WkInstall.mpkg icon to install the WIBU-KEY Drivers for Mac OS X. In the next step click Continue. Take a moment to read the Read Me section and click Continue when ready. Next, you will see the screen below.
Click on Change Install Location button if you want the drivers to be installed at a specific location. Otherwise, click Install to install the drivers at their default location. You will be asked for your password.
Enter it and click Install Software. The installer will proceed with the driver installation. Once the installation is complete you will see the screen below. Linux Install the WIBU-KEY drivers with the appropriate command listed below. Note that the Linux drivers come in two versions, as a.rpm and as a.deb package – use the one that is appropriate for your Linux distribution (i.e. The.rpm files for Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS, the.deb files for Debian/Ubuntu etc.).
Operating System Driver Installation File Command 64-bit, with.rpm support WkRt-Lin-6.32.1504-500.x8664.rpm rpm -ivh WkRt-Lin-6.32.1504-500.x8664.rpm 64-bit, with.deb support wkrt-lin6.32.1504.500amd64.deb dpkg -i wkrt-lin6.32.1504.500amd64.deb Installing the License Server Once you have the dongle drivers installed, you can plug in the dongle into a free USB port of the machine. The dongle must be plugged into the machine every time you need to run the V-Ray license server. Windows To install the V-Ray license server make sure your Windows account has administrative privileges and double-click the installation file vrlserviceinstaller.exe that came with the V-Ray 3.6 for Maya installation archive. Follow the instructions of the installer. Upon the start of the installation, Windows may ask you for permission to run the installer with administrator privileges.
Please confirm. You will be presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement.
Please take a moment to review the agreement. Click the I agree button to proceed.
Next, you will see the default installation settings. To manually set-up the installation click Customize. If you have clicked Customize, you will see the list of customizable settings: License server directory – Specifies the installation folder for the V-Ray License Server.
Add firewall exception – Automatically adds a firewall exception for the license server so it can run uninterrupted. Click Install Now to continue. Note: If there is a previous version of V-Ray License Server installed and/or running, the installer will detect and uninstall it.
The installer will proceed to complete the installation. Click Finish. Make sure the dongle is plugged in. Unpack the installation archive, double-click the vrlserviceinstaller.dmg file to mount it and run the installer ( vrlserviceosx4.3.1.bin.app). You will be presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement. Please take a moment to review the agreement.
Click the I agree button to proceed: 4. Next, you will see the default installation settings. To manually set-up the installation click Customize.
If you have clicked Customize, you will see the list of customizable settings: Add firewall exception – Automatically adds a firewall exception for the license server so it can run uninterrupted. License server directory – Specifies the installation folder for the V-Ray License Server.
Click Install Now to continue. Note: If there is a previous version of V-Ray License Server installed and/or running, the installer will detect and uninstall it. The installer will proceed to complete the installation. Click Finish. Linux 1. Make sure the dongle is plugged into the machine 2. Open a Terminal and navigate to where you have extracted vrlserviceinstaller.bin from the V-Ray for Maya 3.6 installation archive (for example vrayinstalldir) 3.
Make sure you have root permissions or use the su or the sudo command and run the installation file in the directory. Follow the instructions of the installer; if you had a previous version of the V-Ray License Server, the installer will automatically remove it first. License server directory – Specifies the installation folder for the V-Ray License Server. Click Install Now to continue.
Note: If there is a previous version of V-Ray License Server installed and/or running, the installer will detect and uninstall it. The installer will proceed to complete the installation.
Click Finish. Installing V-Ray for Maya This section describes the installation of V-Ray for Maya using the provided installer. Windows To install V-Ray for Maya license make sure your Windows account has administrative privileges and double-click the installer to run it. Operating system Maya Version Installer Name Windows 64-bit Maya 2015 vrayadv36001maya2015x64.exe Windows 64-bit Maya 2016 vrayadv 36001maya2016x64.exe Windows 64-bit Maya 2016 Ext. 2 vrayadv 36001maya2016.5x64.exe Windows 64-bit Maya 2017 vrayadv 36001maya2017x64.exe Windows 64-bit Maya 2018 vrayadv 36001maya2018x64.exe To complete the installation follow these steps: 1.
You will be presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement. Please take a moment to review the agreement.
Click the “I Agree” button to proceed: 2. During the next step you can choose the installation type. The available installation types are: Full – A full installation and includes V-Ray for Maya, IPR for Maya, V-Ray Standalone, V-Ray SDK, V-Ray Tools and Documentation. It will allow you to use V-Ray in Maya, do Distributed or Network Rendering, run IPR render server, use V-Ray SDK, and use the different V-Ray Tools. Standalone only – An installation which includes V-Ray Standalone and IPR render server. Please choose this option if you plan to use this machine only for Distributed Rendering with V-Ray Standalone and an IPR render server.
After you choose the installation type you can click the “ Customize” button and adjust the corresponding installation settings. If you have selected the Full installation, you will see the full list of customizable settings: Uninstall previous installations – Leave enabled to automatically uninstall any previous versions. How are you going to connect to the V-Ray license server – Specifies whether the V-Ray license server will run locally or on another machine. If you select “Remote V-Ray license server on the network” you will be given fields to specify the IP address of the machine on which the V-Ray License server is running. Please leave the port 30304 unchanged.
Specify installation paths – Use to confirm the default folders are correct. Add firewall exceptions – Automatically adds firewall exceptions so IPR for Maya and V-Ray Standalone can run uninterrupted. Common settings for Full installation for Maya 2018 with a local license server and default paths, should look like the screenshot below: 4. The installer will detect and list any applications that need to be closed. Please close them and click Install Now. The installer will proceed to uninstall any previous versions and install V-Ray 3.6. If the installation was successful, you will get this screen.
Register the V-Ray render slave – Registers V-Ray Standalone as a service and automatically start when the machine boots. In this case the V-Ray Standalone server will run in the background as a service and there will be no need to run it manually. You will be able to use this machine as a render slave. Press the Finish button. Mac OS X To install V-Ray unpack the installation archive, double-click the dmg file to mount it and run the installer.
Operating system Maya Version Insta ller Name Mac OS X 64-bit Maya 2015 vrayadv36001maya2015mountainlionx64.app Mac OS X 64-bit Maya 2016 vrayadv36001maya2016mavericksx64.app Mac OS X 64-bit Maya 2016 Ext. 2 vrayadv36001maya2016.5mavericksx64.app Mac OS X 64-bit Maya 2017 vrayadv36001maya2017mavericksx64.app Mac OS X 64-bit Maya 2018 vrayadv36001maya2018mavericksx64.app To complete the installation follow these steps: 1. You will be presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement. Please take a moment to review the agreement. Click the I agree button to proceed: 2. During the next step you can choose the installation type. The available installation types are: Full – A full installation and includes V-Ray for Maya, IPR for Maya, V-Ray Standalone, V-Ray SDK, V-Ray Tools and Documentation.
It will allow you to use V-Ray in Maya, do Distributed or Network Rendering, run IPR render server, use V-Ray SDK, and use the different V-Ray Tools. Standalone only – An installation which includes V-Ray Standalone and IPR render server. Please choose this option if you plan to use this machine only for Distributed Rendering with V-Ray Standalone and an IPR render server. 3 After you choose the installation type you can click the “ Customize” button and adjust the corresponding installation settings.
If you have selected the Full installation, you will see the full list of customizable settings: The installer will detect and list any applications that need to be closed. Please close them and click Install Now. Uninstall previous installations – Leave enabled to automatically uninstall any previous versions. How are you going to connect to the V-Ray license server – Specifies whether the V-Ray license server will run locally or on another machine. If you select “Remote V-Ray license server on the network” you will be given fields to specify the IP address of the machine on which the V-Ray License server is running. Please leave the port 30304 unchanged.
Specify installation paths – Use to confirm the default folders are correct. Common settings for Full installation for Maya 2018 with a local license server and default paths, should look like the screenshot below: 4. The installer will proceed to uninstall any previous versions and install V-Ray 3.6. If the installation was successful, you will get this screen. Register the V-Ray render slave – Registers V-Ray Standalone as a service and automatically start upon the Mac OS X boot.
In this case the V-Ray Standalone server will run in the background as a service and there will be no need to run it manually. You will be able to use this machine as a render slave. Press the Finish button. Unpack the contents of the installation archive to a temporary folder (called vrayinstalldir below); 2. Open a console and navigate to that folder; 3. Make sure you have root permissions or use the su or the sudo command and run the installation file in the directory for the respective Maya version.
Operating system Maya version Installer name Linux 64-bit Maya 201 5 vrayadv360 01 maya2015linuxx64 Linux 64-bit Maya 201 6 vrayadv3 6001 maya2016linuxx64 Linux 64-bit Maya 2016 Ext. 2 vrayadv360 01 maya2016.5linuxx64 Linux 64-bit Maya 201 7 vrayadv360 01 maya2017linuxx64 Linux 64-bit Maya 201 8 vrayadv360 01 maya2018linuxx64 4. Follow the instructions of the installer; if you had a previous version of V-Ray for Maya, the installer will try to automatically remove it first.
For example: $ cd vrayinstalldir $ sudo./vrayadv36001maya2018linuxx64 follow installer instructions $ exit 5. You will be presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement. Please take a moment to review the agreement. Click the I agree button to proceed. During the next step you can choose the installation type. The available installation types are: Full – A full installation and includes V-Ray for Maya, IPR for Maya, V-Ray Standalone, V-Ray SDK, V-Ray Tools and Documentation.
It will allow you to use V-Ray in Maya, do Distributed or Network Rendering, run IPR, use V-Ray SDK, and use the different V-Ray Tools. Standalone only – An installation which includes V-Ray Standalone and IPR render server. Please choose this option if you plan to use this machine only for Distributed Rendering with V-Ray Standalone and an IPR render server. After you choose the installation type you can click the Customize button and adjust the corresponding installation settings. If you have selected the Full installation, you will see the full list of customizable settings: Uninstall previous installations – Leave enabled to automatically uninstall any previous versions. How are you going to connect to the V-Ray license server – Specifies whether the V-Ray license server will run locally or on another machine. If you select “Remote V-Ray license server on the network” you will be given fields to specify the IP address of the machine on which the V-Ray License server is running.
Please leave the port 30304 unchanged. Specify installation paths – Use to confirm the default folders are correct. Common settings for Full installation for Maya 2018 with a local license server and default paths, should look like the screenshot below: 8. If the installation was successful, you will get this screen. Register the V-Ray render slave – Registers V-Ray Standalone as a service and automatically start when the machine boots. In this case the V-Ray Standalone server will run in the background as a service and there will be no need to run it manually. You will be able to use this machine as a render slave.
Press the Finish button. Some GUI Distributions of Linux may be incompatible with the GUI of the installer. In that case run the installation with -gui=0 attribute. Copyright © 2018 Chaos Software Ltd.
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