Spot lights don’t produce realistic sun beams since the beams look like they’re expanding, which sun beams don’t do. Use a distant light to simulate beams of light coming into the roomĪ distant_light is an easy-to-use option that perfectly matches sun light. Just be careful not to let the spot light go into the room. If there’s anything visible outside the window, you may want to put a spot light on them.

The quad lights should just barely cover the entire window. Instead of using a Skydome light, use a Sky for the background and quad lights for the light coming in through the windows. In this post, we’ll give you some quick tips, but you can find more detailed information on, both for interior lighting and for troubleshooting noise.Īvoid the Skydome and use a Sky background and Quad lights Indirect lighting of interior scenes can be a challenge, but there are some things you can do. It’s the same thing for 3ds Max and MAXtoA.

You need to connect Arnold to the Autodesk network license manager.

You need an Autodesk network license server running somewhere (not on a render node).

You need one Arnold license for each render node (for you CINEMA 4D users, a TeamRender client is an Arnold render node and requires its own license). Arnold, however, does require a license to render without the watermark.

You need Arnold licenses, which are a separate purchase.

You don’t need Maya licenses for batch rendering, and you don’t need Maya licenses to install Maya on render nodes.

You need to install Maya and MtoA on each render node.

Download the Arnold plugin from įor example, let’s suppose you want to render Maya scene files. You need the 3d application (Maya, 3ds Max) and the Arnold plugin for that application (MtoA, MAXtoA). If you rendering scene files from Maya, or 3ds Max, or some other 3d application, then you do not need Arnold standalone. Usually there’s some confusion about “Arnold standalone” and what’s actually required on a render node.

I’ve seen several variations of this question recently.

Arnold maya batch render