Arnold integration with Blender, updated to work with Arnold 5.1 and Blender 2.79b. This is not yet production ready, but will be soon...
- Add metalness parameter to "Base" section of shader panel
- Transmission/Refraction/Caustics are not rendering
- Emission needs to be configured to work properly with Standard Surface
- Show bucket tiles during render from within Blender's Image Editor
- Node system for all Lambert, Standard Surface, Flat, and Hair shaders
- IPR, currently just renders to a png, need a way for the IPR to work within Blender's viewport
- Renders are upside down, kind of weird...
- Download the Arnold 5.1.1.0 SDK here and save this directory in
path\to\blender\2.79\scripts\modules\Arnold-5.1.1.0-windows - Add environment variable to "PATH" ->
path\to\blender\2.79\scripts\modules\Arnold-5.1.1.0-windows\bin- In Search, search for and then select: System (Control Panel)
- Click the Advanced system settings link.
- Click Environment Variables. In the section System Variables, find the PATH environment variable and select it. Click Edit.
- Click New.
- In the Edit System Variable (or New System Variable) window, specify the value of the PATH environment variable:
\path\to\blender\2.79\scripts\modules\Arnold-5.1.1.0-windows\bin - Click OK.
- Close all remaining windows by clicking OK.
- Restart computer.
- Add
barnolddirectory topath\to\blender\2.79\scripts\addons - Edit line 22 of
path\to\blender\2.79\scripts\addons\barnold\engine\__init__.pytosys.path.append(r"path\to\blender\2.79\scripts\modules\Arnold-5.1.1.0-windows\python") - Enable the plugin in blender by going to File>User Preferences>Add-ons tab>Search for 'arnold' in the search bar, and clicking the checkbox next to
Render:B-Arnoldto enable this plugin.
I'm actively working on this every day, if you have any issues feel free to contact me at [email protected], I will ensure this plugin supports all future updates to Blender and Arnold renderer.
