Hello.
I downloaded the student version of Maya 2017. During installation it said it was also going to download "Arnold." Since I had no experience with maya anywhere past Maya 2008, I had no idea Arnold was the rendering engine. In fact, I had no idea what arnold was at all, so I just didn't download it.
Is there anywhere to just get arnold? How do i make sure maya recognizes it properly? Do i actually even need arnold, or is there a different rendering engine I could use?
Maya keeps complaining that I don't have Arnold installed and mostly, I would like it to stop