more to find here (although 3D Textures are marked as supported look at 1. MILA Material (build a shader by adding layers on your own) Light (Occlusion) Baking to Texture and Vertices + Fill Texture Seamsĥ. (These features you may never see in Arnold and this may be good for a clean architecture, but sometimes these features/nodes are very useful).Ĥ. Full Support for Maya Materials and non-photorealistic render nodes like Ramp Shader or lights with a Decay Rate other than 'Quadratic'. Full support for procedural textures (what you see in Viewport will be rendered)Ģ. What Arnold still is missing and Mental Ray does:ġ. I would say give the 'free' version a test with your pipeline and choose which ever one fits your needs the best! Please contact Nvidia for pricing and support. If I can't make Arnold work for me, how much will a license for Mental Ray cost?Īutodesk no longer ships Mental Ray, nor does it sell or support it as of Maya 2016.5. with no issues with the free UI version within Maya 2018. yes you can batch render with Maya 2018 version of MtoA yet you will get a water mark (all the Arnold license does is remove water marks from the batch renders) so you can test batch renders etc. check some of these vids out:īTW I wish to correct Mike. Mental Ray on the other hand was just a ton of workarounds etc.Īrnold will render out your AO, Normals, and curvature passes as well, so no worries. I worked as a lighting TD and have used Mray, Vray, Arnold and more, and I must say Arnold is much easier to troubleshoot and it just works out of the box as it should. Please take a look at some of the feature films that Arnold has been churning out! Way above MRay. IMO Arnold is a much better product hands down!! Yes Arnold doesn't support some of the passes that Mental Ray does, yet Arnold expects user to also use Compositing tools to achieve their final look. Xgen Maya Hair does Arnold compare to Mental Ray as a rendering software and will I be able to do the same things that I could do with Mental Ray if I switch over?.Maya Arnold Batch Render Animation Problem Issue 1.Maya Arnold Batch Render Animation Issue 2.Arnold Rendering Issue - Output driver 1 for AOV 'RGBA' is null 2.

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