
You can open, close, move, or dock panels as you see fit. Workspaces define how your Maya setup looks. Maya 2017 brings a new workspace ideology that should replace panel layouts. That hiccup aside, Maya 2017 offers some great workflow improvements. Hopefully, this is something that can be cleaned up and made simpler in later releases that show Arnold as the main rendering engine. If you want to batch render, you need to purchase Arnold Batch Render Nodes, from Solid Angle. So while rendering a single frame is possible, or a sequence of frames interactively, Batch rendering will give you a watermark. It only works interactively while you are working in Maya. Instead, Maya offers Arnold with the latest release, although there is one caveat.Īrnold is a local version of Arnold for Maya. If you want to use Mental Ray, you need to download it from nvidia. One of the major changes with the latest release is that Mental Ray is no longer included. This release includes major workflow upgrades… Maya 2017 seems to focus on major workflow upgrades, bringing brand new editors, and updates to aging ones. Autodesk announced Maya 2017 and took the wraps off what is new and in store for new and subscription users. Siggraph is currently underway, which usually means new releases of our favorite tools.
