MAXtoA to be bundled free with 3ds Max 2018 Otherwise, the bundled version of Arnold will watermark offline renders where no valid licence is available. Prices currently start at $1,220 for a single licence, with bulk discounts available. Use Arnold free when rendering via the 3ds Max GUI pay for command line or network rendersįor anyone who followed the release of Maya 2017 last year, for which Autodesk also moved from bundling Mental Ray to bundling Arnold, the news will come as little surprise.Īs with Maya 2017, the licence of Arnold bundled free with 3ds Max 2018 will be for foreground processing only: that is, rendering from a single machine via the GUI.įor background rendering via the command line, or to use a render farm, you’ll need commercial licences of Arnold.

Instead, users will get a free licence of Solid Angle’s Arnold renderer, which Autodesk acquired in 2016. Autodesk will no longer provide the Mental Ray or Iray renderers free of charge with 3ds Max when 3ds Max 2018 ships on 12 April, the company has announced.

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