Tutorials

• ​Compiling Custom Arnold Procedurals (Stand-ins) to Make Mandelbulbs with Maya MtoA, CGStirk​

• ​https://docs.arnoldrenderer.com/display/A5AFMUG/Technical?preview=%2F40111108%2F40404366%2FArnoldShadersTutorial.pdf​

• ​https://docs.arnoldrenderer.com/display/A5AFMUG/Creating+a+Shader​

  ​https://docs.arnoldrenderer.com/display/A5ARP/Creating+a+Simple+Plugin​

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Books

• https://thebookofshaders.com/

Setting up

1. Download VSC

2. Download Arnold SDK

Setting up Visual Studio Code

Creating the Maya interface for your shader

Referencing your template files

1. Use the template from Arnold docs​

2. Open your Maya env file located in ~/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/2020/

3. Insert this line at the end and save the file

MTOA_TEMPLATES_PATH = $HOME/Documents/maya/projects/arnold

Utilities

Mix

AtRGB mix(AtRGB a, AtRGB b, float alpha){
	return a*(1-alpha) +b *alpha;
	}
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