Hello everyone,

I just finished recording a Houdini to Arnold part 1 of 2 videos showing how to build a shader and a brief overview of Arnold's settings.

Do check it out if you are curious about Arnold, if there is interest I would definitely do an in depth overview of Arnold.

Thanks in advance.

Teaser link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEiEujwwzV8 [youtube.com]

Please watch this follow up video before building the shader http://youtu.be/rIdxmOOp2qg [youtu.be]
It contains very important corrections and optimization guidelines.

Part 1 link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zsoC1B-l7I [youtube.com]

Recorded in 4k UltraHD

Thanks for taking the time to put that tutorial together. That's a massive monitor you've got there.

Arnold has a an intimidating number of parameters and controls, but the results certainly are impressive.

amazing thanks for putting s this together.

And wow:

Recorded in 4k UltraHD

first time I see this, shame I haven't got a 4k monitor but I am sure it looks amazing!!!

Chronon
Thanks for taking the time to put that tutorial together. That's a massive monitor you've got there.

Arnold has a an intimidating number of parameters and controls, but the results certainly are impressive.

It really is very simple. There is a sampling tab for each “pass” diff, glossy, reflection and so on, global AA at the very top which acts as a global multiplier and a motion blur sampling quality. Then there are your ray bounces tab and thats it. =]

I spent probably more time trying to encode this thing for upload then actually recording the video itself. . . Regular h264 codec didnt work with quick time at that resolution and since I'm on a PC i dont have a pro res. At the end quick time with Animation gave the best results at a manageable time, it didn't butcher the gradients when most other codecs did.