Any word on Max getting Render to Texture support?

[Smallpoly]

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.

[MartinBeh]

Agree, RTT is really important

[ossian.whiley]

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.

[Stephen.Blair]

It's on our roadmap.

[hollygrzedzicki]

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

[Stephen.Blair]

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

[lee_griggs]

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

[hollygrzedzicki]

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.

[nicola.stefano.jannuzzo]

Have you switched to 2.1.945 yet ?

[Smallpoly · Accepted solution]

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!