With a focus on empowering artists throughout the production pipeline, Autodesk® Maya® 2020 introduces new tools that not only help animators, modelers, riggers, and technical artists work faster and more intuitively, but also make the creative process more fun. I can't wait for GPU alpha, thanks again.Autodesk® Maya® 2020 introduces tools that help animators, modelers, riggers, and technical artists work faster and more intuitively, and Arnold 6 can now be used for production rendering on both CPU and GPU. I am coming from Blender and I heard from multiple people about how the Autodesk community is a nightmare and good luck getting any help if your new and my first post with a dumb noob question gets two responses in 24 hours, one fear about the switch alleviated.

I have to say though I sure was happy to see that render device drop down menu in the settings, so thanks again appreciate the fast response and all the help.

I have 1080 ti's with no NVLink capabilities so error message of disable rays and hits (I assume these are light bounces which explains why the water shader looked terrible) popped up. I just transposed the versions numbers in my head so I didn't realize they were different until you mentioned it, so Thanks my first GPU render (deep water shader on ocean sim) looked horrible and wasn't any faster than CPU, but it hit all three cards so it's working. When I went to install 3.2.1 it said this already exists, so I assumed it was already the latest version that came with Maya 2019. When I checked version of plug in Maya 3.1.2 where the one I downloaded off Arnold site was 3.2.1.

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