Why would you raise the price so drastically without significant enhancements? I won’t be sticking around to find out. The render node cost is several times my 3ds max maintenance, per render node. What I can’t fathom is that Autodesk would rock the boat with this new licensing scheme for render nodes. Abandon Ship!Īt this point, I assume that software development of 3ds max and Mental Ray has all but stopped.
So 3ds max’s price is going up (cheaper maintenance plans are being phased out) and users are getting the same software functionality with no new development or capabilities, and being introduced to a completely new software licensing cost for their render farm. Additional render nodes (Arnold or Mental Ray via nVidia) will cost extra, in the case of Arnold, $1220 per computer per year plus annual maintenance.
By my initial observation of the Autodesk website, 2018 looks to be a patched 3ds max 2017 with Mental Ray removed and Arnold included, with the catch that instead of unlimited installations of Mental Ray, Arnold will run on only one computer. 2017 has not been my year, and today seems to be no exception.
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