Update Nitrous viewport

[Tochukwunwankwere20]

We need improvements on 3ds max nitrous viewport rendering, and better compatibility with Arnold shaders, materials and lights.
Using activeshade is quite slow and could be a drawback for many.
We should be able to preview these shaders and lights accurately and near production render quality, with decent speed and feedback.
Extra features like volume lights and sss would be an added bonus.

[Tupaia]

Realtime, or close-to-realtime, rendering will not provide the same render quality like 'normal' rendering in the near future, but a viewport screenshots with very good quality could be sufficient for many tasks. A long-term goal worth working towards successively.

Btw., for consistencie's sake:

I'm wondering why there is no 'Hardware Renderer' amongst the list of available renderers in the Render Settings, but a separate 'Preview - Grab Viewport' in the Tools menu.

[fla3d]

Showing arnold material and lights correctly in the viewport is a must!

[brentscannell]

Hi @Tochukwunwankwere20

Would it make sense to merge this topic (and it's unique votes) with this one?

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-ideas/pbr-viewport-shader-environment/idi-p/6806116

[Kranos_Orphydian]

Future consideration ? We are in 2020