4.6.6.1 - Arnold for Cinema 4D - Date: 18 October 2023
Bug Fixes
- C4DTOA-3090 - Wrong IPR when soloing a shader in a Node Material which has a custom UV set
- C4DTOA-3093 - Atmosphere volume shader preview is not visible
- ARNOLD-9773 - Exorbitant rays/pixel reported for first % progress report
- ARNOLD-13909 - Crash with extreme numbers of overlapping volumes
- ARNOLD-14068 - Incorrect smart opaque when a shader is assigned to an instancer
- ARNOLD-14087 - Crash when writing a scene without a valid render session
- ARNOLD-14110 - GPU crash when attempting to read an EXR/TX file that isn't present
- ARNOLD-14138 - Round up initial progress stat in log so it reports 1% and not 0%
- ARNOLD-14180 - Profiler uses too much memory in very long running renders
Arnoldis an advanced cross-platform rendering library, or API, developed by Solid Angle and used by a number of prominent organizations in film, television and animation, including Sony Pictures Imageworks. It was developed as a photo-realistic, physically-based ray tracing alternative to traditional scanline based rendering software for CG animation. Arnold uses cutting-edge algorithms that make the most effective use of your computer's hardware resources: memory, disk space, multiple processor cores, and SIMD/SSE units. The Arnold architecture was designed to easily adapt to existing pipelines. It is built on top of a pluggable node system; users can extend and customize the system by writing new shaders, cameras, filters and output driver nodes, as well as procedural geometry, custom ray types and user-defined geometric data. The primary goal of the Arnold architecture is to provide a complete solution as a primary renderer for animation and visual effects.
Arnold for Cinema4D (C4DtoA)supports most Cinema 4D features such as instances, cloners, deformers, generators, MoGraph geometry, hair, and ThinkingParticles. It also supports both animation and single frame distributed rendering in Team Render, allowing the use of all computers in a local network to speed-up Arnold rendering. Third-party plugins TurbulenceFD and X-Particles are natively supported, allowing artists to render high quality smoke, fire, and particle effects with fully interactive feedback. Other features include volume rendering with OpenVDB, a node-based material editor and a comprehensive list of shaders and utilities, including vertex maps and per-face materials.
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Solid Angle SLis the technology company behind the Arnold rendering software, with offices in Madrid and London and customers throughout the world including Framestore, DreamWorks, ILM, Sony Pictures Imageworks, MPC, The Mill, Mikros Image and Rising Sun Pictures. Arnold was designed from the ground up to efficiently raytrace the complex geometric datasets required for feature-length CGI animation and big budget visual effects, while at the same time simplifying the pipeline, reducing the number of passes, minimizing storage requirements and greatly enhancing interactivity for lighting artists.