MAXtoA 5.6.6.1 now available

[Stephen.Blair]

MAXtoA 5.6.6.1 is minor hotfix release using Arnold 7.2.5.1. For the full list of features in MAXtoA 5.6.6.0, see the MAXtoA 5.6.6.0 release notes

Installation

• Download Arnold for 3ds Max from your Autodesk Account. See Download Arnold for more information about downloading MAXtoA from your Autodesk Account.

• Follow these installation instructions.

Bug Fix

• MAXTOA-1697 - Performance regression for starting a rendering. Especially affected material editor Swatch rendering, since many many small renderings happen in sequence.

• ARNOLD-13843 - Rare crash when deleting procedural

• ARNOLD-14130 - GPU/CPU discrepancy when using bump3d and component linking

• ARNOLD-14504 - [GPU] Interactive updates cause random crash in optixSbtRecordPackHeader()

• ARNOLD-14537 - Rare crash when rendering the last bucket with extremely high AA and many threads

• ARNOLD-14553 - [GPU] Fix "part or all of the requested memory range is already mapped" crash

• ARNOLD-14574 - AiBegin in Windows is slow to return

• ARNOLD-14594 - [GPU] Random crash in image shader

• ARNOLD-14558 - Arnold Render View GL widget not updating

• usd#1776 - Fix incorrect PointInstancer instance orientations in the render delegate.

• usd#1769 - Fix curve uvs when they are vertex interpolated.

System Requirements

• Autodesk 3ds Max 2022, 2023, 2024
• Windows 10 or later, with the Visual Studio 2019 redistributable.
• CPUs need to support the SSE4.1 instruction set.
• GPU rendering works on Windows requires an NVIDIA GPU of the Ampere, Turing, Volta, Pascal, or Maxwell architecture. We recommend using 537.13, or higher on Windows. See Arnold GPU for more information.
• Optix™ denoiser requires an NVidia GPU with CUDA™ Compute Capability 5.0 and above.

[wernienst]

Yeah!

Ok, installed to 2022 first.

Upon launch, I got this message:

after a while, Max started normally.

I didn't find the mentioned file anywhere, so I copied the 2024 version. Max 2022 didn't complain...

Arnold's respond times are as pre-5.6.6.0 now, especially with Compact Material Editor 👍

So far no more problems in 2022 and 2024...

[thiago.ize]

Thanks for the report. We can reproduce this 2022 issue.  2023 and 2024 seem to be fine. We're looking into fixing this.