Arnold for 3DS MAX

[glorybound]

Is this a big deal?

https://www.solidangle.com/arnold/arnold-for-3dsmax/

[Morne]

Depends how you look at it.
Was Mental Ray a big deal when that was included in Max the 1st time?

That being said, I think it is a big deal, however I won't be switching anytime soon...

[glorybound]

It seems like they all are, at first, but Arnold seems to already have a following.

[Morne]

New license costs, time learning, converting assets etc...

[Moriah]

Arnold it's not worth it when you have Vray. At least for non-film use, but even then arnold is only good at managing displacement and heavy scenes... They don't even have DR, it's more expensive, no GPU, less malleability... only good thing is alshaders but Vlado already working on that new SSS

[glorybound]

Good to know.

[JeffG2]

... only good thing is alshaders but Vlado already working on that new SSS

What can you tell us about the new SSS?

[Morbid Angel]

imho autodesk paid a hefty price for solid angle, now they have to make their money back. Arnold cannot render in batch/network mode without an additional license, which costs .........wait for it .......$1220 usd per license. And I'm not clear at all on weather they have render license volume discounts...

So based on this math, for 10 render nodes you will be $12200 usd And I'm almost certain you will have to have a nice subscription in order to carry over those costs year to year (of course this needs to be made clear by autodesk still) but I don't expect any freebies.

[glorybound]

They'll probably try to sell it for a premium, nobody buys, so they give it away free in a MAX bundle.