The Arnold for 3ds Max developed by Solid Angle provides an unrivaled rendering pipeline that allows for more advanced rendering through advanced shaders, lighting, and textures. Some of Arnold’s features are TX texture optimization, mipmapping, UDIM support, and other features not limited to third-party shaders. Arnold also supports rendering legacy 3ds Max maps while providing viewport previews and flushing of caches, as well as Maketx command line utilities for optimizing textures.

Autodesk – Arnold for 3ds Max Features

• Seamless Integration: Built into 3ds Max, it allows interaction via its UI.
• Physically-Based Rendering: Incorporates Monte Carlo ray tracing.
• TX Texture Optimization: Converts textures to .tx format, rendering them faster.
• Mip-Mapping & Tiling: Allows mip-mapping bias control alongside UDIM/tile textures.
• Legacy Map Support: It renders all previous 3ds Max maps possible in MAXtoA.
• Viewport Previews: Renders Arnold shaders in the viewport of 3ds Max.
• Third-Party Shader Support: Enables custom Arnold shaders through the plugin paths.
• Flush Caches: Removes textures and data that stagnate the render without returning to the previous view.
• OSL & OpenImageIO: Provides support for Open Counter Language. And more image-manipulating instruments.

Arnold for 3ds Max Documentation

Image 1: Seamless Integration

Image 2: Viewport Previews