The new version comes with support for Blender 3.0+, better IPR performance, and multiple bug fixes.
Creative Director at Luna Digital Aaron Powell announced the release of BtoA 0.4.5, a new version of a community-developed Blender add-on for the Arnold renderer. The tool integrates Blender with Autodesk’s rendering tool and can be used to create product renders, marketing videos, and VFX for indie features and short films. The new update brings support for Blender 3.0+ and better support for Arnold 7, fixes multiple bugs, and introduces several new improvements to the existing tools.
Here's a list of new features shared by Aaron:
- Better support for Arnold 7
- Support for Blender 3.0+
- Better IPR performance and bug fixes
- Support for render layer “indirect” and “holdout” effects
- Support for instanced objects and lights
- Updates to the Arnold Shader node graph, including per-channel access to image textures, a vector controller for the physical sky, new nodes, and more
You can learn more and download BtoA for free here.