Autodesk has announced the Arnold 5.3 beta which brings long awaited GPU rendering to the renderer. Other features include improvements to quality and performance for adaptive sampling, improved version of Randomwalk SSS mode, enhanced usability for Standard Surface, improvements to the Operator framework, better sampling of Skydome lights, and finally updates to support for MaterialX, allowing users to save a shading network as a MaterialX look, Find out more on Autodesk’s website.
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TThis is great news! And it seems this is why they prepared Maya to have the rendering on viewport and all. And good thing is it would be free GPU rendering for Maya and 3dsmax users, which you won’t find anywhere else.
I find it interesting how nobody is commenting on this great news, maybe the Autodesk haters are in a corner crying because they can’t complain about anything Arnold render is bringing to the users. The haters and fanboys can’t say anything negative about Autodesk.
The only thing some people might complain is about the Nvidia stuff, but I mean, it was expected.
But great news, short article for something important, especially when it was something people requested for years and said Redshift was dominating and Arnold and CPU rendering was dying, so great news for many users across many 3D Software.
Release notes: https://docs.arnoldrenderer.com/display/A5AFMUG/3.2.0
So… you (Autodesk users) are complaining because I post in Autodesk news… and now ask for it? LOL
Can you further explain this please?
“And good thing is it would be free GPU rendering for Maya and 3dsmax users, which you won’t find anywhere else.”
Chhers!
Juang:
it would be great if you could stop propagating and spreading your black-white view of the world ( ala Non-Autodesk vs. Autodesk users ) into the 3d online community – please ? I don’t know what benefit or gratification you get from all this, but what i know is that the community does’nt deserve such poison of crude “we vs them” blueprint. We already have this enough in real world politics…
Steer your anger and dis-consent with product politics to were it belongs: to Autodesk directly. Dont play this over the 3d community and users please
Amazing… what did I propagated here? what black & white?
Again and again you keep complaining… even for nothing LOL!
He said:
” Autodesk haters are in a corner crying because they can´t complain about anything Arnold render is bringing to the users”
And:
“The haters and fanboys can’t say anything negative about Autodesk”
And since I seem to be recognized as a representative of that group here, as your answer states, I answered.
But your post makes non-sense.
I just asked him the meaning of that phrase, to check if it’s a true fact, a lie, or an affirmation that comes from innocence and unfamiliarity:
“And good thing is it would be free GPU rendering for Maya and 3dsmax users, which you won’t find anywhere else.”
But so far, no answer to that, but of course, without having done any affirmation or statement, just a question that was practically requested, and then I receive a “Please go out!”
Spacefrog, if you don’t like it, ignore it 🙂
Now if we can go back on track, what does this means?:
“And good thing is it would be free GPU rendering for Maya and 3dsmax users, which you won’t find anywhere else.”
Cheers!
I can´t stop myself….here it goes again. Of course, EggPancake isn´t doing anyone a favour by “conjuring” any “haters”, especially by claiming something that can easily be misread.
But as far as I know, Arnold (including GPU rendering) IS free, if you just render it locally, but any additional render node licenses cost money (part of the original hate against switching it out for mental ray, which in that sense was comepletely free for a long time).
Wanna be nitpicky about how others comment here? Then you have to accept, that you aren´t very correct either…
The problem with your trolling is, and you might not be aware of it, that again, you keep throwing everyone in a pile by saying “you (Autodesk users) are crying because I post in Autodesk news…”.
Here are all the things wrong with that sentence:
1. The only person “possibly” attacking you here, is Mr. or Ms. Eggpancake, IF you feel attacked and identified as a 3ds max hater, which you apparently do. Why not adress him directly then, instead of insulting everyone else, by saying “you (Autodesk users)”??
2. By saying “…are crying…” you are basically saying, that anyone ever criticising you or what you said in numerous other posts doesn´t have a valid point at all and is “just crying”. Last time we had this conversation, noone was crying, people where just pointing out, that maybe a post about tyFlows accomplishments isn´t the right place to rant about autodesk in general…
Again and again, you are inciting reactions like this, completely beside the point you are trying to make.
Its either because you just want the attention (aka “trolling”), OR you are so above everyone else, that you just can´t see that people are annoyed by YOU and the way you are making your points, and NOT because we sheepishly defend a company you dislike.
The point you ARE trying to make here the way and how I explained further above, is incorrect in itself.
Arnold is free, the way it ships with max, rendernodes are not.
Wanna be nitpicky, just to be able to rant about 3ds max, please, but than you get nitpicky responses…
1.- I have not said that anyone is attacking me, I don’t feel that way, in any case he is provoking me, and since I like to answer as I said many times, I answer 🙂
2.- You are totally right, the word “crying” is a bit insulting and daunting, so I removed it and replace with “complaining”, sorry for that.
but… I’m not the one that is inciting anything here (or trolling), in any case EggPancake is trolling here looking for this, why don’t you critisize him?
I will ignore the part of your post where you speak about Arnold being free or not, since I have not said anything about that, this remains to be answered by the user who said it, so it could be good if you answer him about this, not me.
I don’t consider myself an Autodesk hater, as I said, you consider that (with “you” being the group of people complaining that I speak what I think here whenever I want), with those two phrases:
”Autodesk haters are in a corner crying because they can´t complain about anything Arnold render is bringing to the users”
“The haters and fanboys can’t say anything negative about Autodesk”
And since it is clear that he refers to the long conversations we had here, he was referring to me and others that think like me, so I’m accepting the position for he or others that think like he, that does not mean that I’m an actual hater.
If you look closely I ignored that part until Spacefrog answered because I was preferring to avoid answering directly to that, but since Spacefrog stated an evaluation about my post saying:
“stop propagating and spreading your black-white view of the world”
“what i know is that the community does’nt deserve such poison of crude “we vs them” blueprint”
I decided to “rol-play” and accept that role you (people complaining) decide to give me.
The only thing I did, for the third time right now, is to ask for further clarification of this phrase, do you agree and think it’s true?:
“And good thing is it would be free GPU rendering for Maya and 3dsmax users, which you won’t find anywhere else.”
“The point you ARE trying to make here the way and how I explained further above, is incorrect in itself.
Arnold is free, the way it ships with max, rendernodes are not.
Wanna be nitpicky, just to be able to rant about 3ds max, please, but than you get nitpicky responses…”
Here. Read and listen and you get all the answers you need.
You keep missing the point.
I do not think I am the only one being annoyed by you ranting about autodesk here.
Again: There are few around who are complete autodesk fanboys and defend the company blindlessly. Obviously they have their flaws and most of as would agree on those flaws.
But the big majority is still using their software, because THEY LIKE IT.
I LIKE 3ds max. I LIKE hearing about news, about the thing I LIKE.
And if there is someone constantly spreading negativity, thats just ANNOYING and ruining the experience for me.
Thats what I complain about.
Thats what others complain about.
So the first thing you should consider is the language you use.
If you insult people, they will not listen to any argument after the insult.
Second thing is to stop generalising.
If you assume everyone is the same and thinks the same (“You (autodesk user)”), people like me are pissed off, because it diminishes our ability to think for ourselfes and to have differentiated opinions about things.
Like Spacefrog said: We don´t all think in black and white, but you seem to do (Autodesk is just bad).
Its true I didn´t critisice Mr Eggpancake. Of course his language is inciting and of course his statement is only half way correct.
Its true (but I also mentioned that several times in my post above), that Arnold GPU IS free, BUT you have to pay for additional render nodes. In that regard, no serious studio could use it for free, because it would need additional render nodes.
Its also true, that its the only “free” GPU renderer for 3ds max or maya.
But again…what do you care? Are you offering any insights or anything interesting? Who is you audience? Are there professionals in here that will be like “Oh my, I ALMOST spent thousands on 3ds max because I thought arnold is COMPLETELY free, when in reality its ONLY free if I use it locally!! Good thing Juang3D started this discussion here!”.
Or do you think anyone using 3ds Max or Maya regularily, because they either HAVE to (and stop kidding yourself, no serious company will switch to blender just because one employee dislikes autodesk subscription policy), or even wors, because they LIKE using it will now go “Ohmy, Juang3D has a point here, I feel much better now”.
Even if you just wanna start a discussion…whats the point here?
And why wanna start it EVERYTIME there is a post even remotely connected to autodesk?
If there is a specific post (like when autodesk introduced the rental only model), there is plenty of reason to start a discussion about it.
But doing that again and again on unrelated posts is just stupid.
Just stop and think what you want.
Let’s start by saying that you are answering the wrong person again with all the chat about Arnold being free or not being free.
I haven’t said a word regarding that and I won’t say a word regarding that, so you are understanding what you want.
Now to finally clarify things I will explain why I was asking about that phrase:
” And good thing is it would be free GPU rendering for Maya and 3dsmax users, which you won’t find anywhere else.”
I was asking if you (or others) agree with that phrase because it includes something completely false, not just outside of Max, but also historically inside of max.
“Free GPU rendering […] which you won’t find anywhere else”
Well, let’s begin by saying that in max we had iRay, that delivered GPU rendering inside max and was a pretty awesome render engine, fairly limited, but pretty awesome, and you can see how awesome it is because it’s still powering Keyshot, software that delivers awesome visual quality.
Now this part of the phrase is the one I wanted to be clarified:
“which you won’t find anywhere else”
And I wanted a clarification about that part of the phrase because I wanted to understand what “anywhere else” means, but it seems the user decided to hide the hand after throwing the stone.
If that part of the phrase is referring outside of Max/Maya… that is plainly false, you can find GPU rendering (even with viewport) perfectly integrated into Blender with Cycles, and if other users come here and read that and no one clarifies that, that person will be missinformed.
So in general that phrase was false, not because the free or not free part, I have not mentioned that and I don’t care about that, I understand your reasoning saying that it is free for existing users of max (we can talk about it not being free because you are paying for max, so we could say that it is cheaper than other alternatives out there for max, but that’s another discussion).
But what is not true is that GPU rendering or Viewport GPU rendering is something that you won’t find anywhere else, and not just Blender, AFAIK C4D integrated Radeon Pro render, and it’s free, and you can also use it with Max, so that is also false for max users.
That was all my point here, but you decided to answer me with an answer to a different user, again, please answer joe with the free/not free thing, not me.
In the end, this phrase:
“And good thing is it would be free GPU rendering for Maya and 3dsmax users, which you won’t find anywhere else.”
Is false.
Cheers.
Arnold is not free…
you have to buy licences to batch render.
Arnold is not free… And doesn’t even have a native Render view yet!!!
you have to buy licences to batch render.
And Pay $$$$ subscription for Max! yes massively overpay since most of us still need to update and buy plugins outside Autodesk to make Max anywhere near workable in a real production environment, and since Autodesk can’t provide half of those natively and expects us to buy them then I expect Autodesk to reduce pricing to compensate, THEN I wont complain as much.
Eggcake: Stop B*tchin and don’t be such a kiss a** fanboy to a mega corporation throwing their scraps at you.
Juang3d: Don’t stop b*tchin bro, I’ve got beers coming!.
Cheers.