topic Re: Any word on Max getting Render to Texture support? in Arnold for 3ds Max Forum

Any word on Max getting Render to Texture support?

Smallpoly — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:07:56 GMT

Re: Any word on Max getting Render to Texture support?

Smallpoly — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:11:24 GMT

According to this page... https://support.solidangle.com/display/A5AF3DSUG/Arnold

... Arnold can be used as "a tool for baking/procedural generation of lighting data (lightmaps for videogames)", but Render to Texture reports it as not supported. Is there a way to use it for baking in Max 2018?

If not, I'd really like to see that in a future release - the only other renderer that comes with Max that supports baking is the old Scanline renderer.

Re: Any word on Max getting Render to Texture support?

MartinBeh — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:01:10 GMT

Agree, RTT is really important

Re: Any word on Max getting Render to Texture support?

ossian.whiley — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 07:31:09 GMT

I totally agree, I’ve always liked max for providing a full feature set even if it’s not always best of breed and this is a huge hole for us. Arnold is a great renderer and it’s a shame that we no longer have a plug-in for Metal Ray as of 2019.

Re: Any word on Max getting Render to Texture support?

Stephen.Blair — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:16:24 GMT

It's on our roadmap.

Re: Any word on Max getting Render to Texture support?

hollygrzedzicki — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 14:25:47 GMT

Does the roadmap include this year? It still doesn't seem to be working sadly.

Re: Any word on Max getting Render to Texture support?

Stephen.Blair — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 14:26:52 GMT

Can you provide more information about how it's not working in the latest maxtoa?

Re: Any word on Max getting Render to Texture support?

lee_griggs — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 07:21:52 GMT

https://support.solidangle.com/display/A5AF3DSUG/Render+to+Texture

Re: Any word on Max getting Render to Texture support?

hollygrzedzicki — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 08:17:07 GMT

I switched my renderer to Arnold and opened the render to texture rollout. Immediately I got a message saying Arnold didn't support render to texture, and rendering was disabled. This limits me to shaders only it seems, which is no good for me unfortunately.

Re: Any word on Max getting Render to Texture support?

nicola.stefano.jannuzzo — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:17:23 GMT

Have you switched to 2.1.945 yet ?

Re: Any word on Max getting Render to Texture support?

Smallpoly — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 22:04:31 GMT

After getting the same error below after updating to the latest version of Max 2019, I realized that getting the update was now just a case of needing to manually download the it from the download page:

https://www.solidangle.com/arnold/download/

Thanks for getting that in there!