The servers range from Single and Multi-GPU servers: 1/2/4/6/8 x RTX 3090 with 24 GB vRAM capacity, fitting to the heaviest images and scenes. Offering the most powerful graphic card currently, RTX 3090.When you access, it is just like a new and blank computer so you have to install the software and plugins you need just one time and they will be saved and ready to use anytime. To simplify, we provide the servers and you will access the server you want via Remote Desktop. You will immediately have yourself a workstation with a powerful configuration from 1 to 8 GPU RTX3090, your working environment will be saved and ready to use whenever you need it. Or another economical and effective option is to use iRender’s cloud rendering service. So make sure that you have Arnold installed and turned on before you start the course.With the mentioned configuration requirements, you can consider investing in yourself a workstation to work effectively with Arnold projects. Now, once that's done you should be able to click on this Renderer tab here. And we really want to just start Arnold when we start Maya. Auto load will load it whenever you start Maya. Now Loaded will load it for this session of Maya. You just want to make sure that Loaded and Auto load are checked.

Now, once installed you have to go in to Windows. But if it's not, you can always go to the page and just install it there. So, you want to make sure that Arnold is installed. They may show up green, the textures may not show up properly and so on. If you don't have Arnold installed and turned on, your exercise files may display poorly. And a lot of the exercise files rely on Arnold to display properly.

We will be using Arnold throughout the course. There's also one more thing before we get started.

Render in arnold