Arnold for Maya (or MtoA) provides a bridge to the Arnold renderer from within Maya’s standard interface. Features:

– Seamless integration with Maya shapes, cameras, lights and shaders.

– Image Based Lighting support, including a state of the art physical sky.

– Interactive rendering (IPR) allows parameter changes to be rapidly previewed without interrupting your work.

– Support for volume rendering with Maya Fluids.

– Support for Maya Hair and nHair.

– Particles and nParticles support, including particle instancer.

– Defer the creation of geometry at render time with the Stand-in placeholder nodes.

– Productivity boost: override sets, holdout mattes, shadow catcher, passes, UDIM style textures, and arbitrary primvar data.

– Extensible through plug-ins (Golaem, FumeFX for Maya, Yeti, Shave & Haircut).

– XGen integration.

– Texturable geometric lights.

– Deep EXR.

– Rendering of curves.