New updates add OpenSubdiv and Alembic support to Max; colour-management and performance profiling tools to Maya.
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
New updates add OpenSubdiv and Alembic support to Max; colour-management and performance profiling tools to Maya.
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
We assess the feature lists of the upcoming Maya, 3ds Max, Mudbox, MotionBuilder and Softimage 2015.
Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
New free work-in-progress tool resurfaces meshes for 3D printing and troubleshoots common errors.
Monday, October 14th, 2013
Fun iPad app sculpts and poses characters via a skeletal system, then readies them for 3D printing.
Friday, February 15th, 2013
Jason Lewis assesses how Maya, 3ds Max, Softimage and Mudbox 2012 perform in the real world.
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
3D texture painting software gets new Vulkan-based geometry map baking system, and more procedural texturing nodes
Monday, December 4th, 2023
First stable release of Octane 2022 adds new photon tracing kernel and Standard Surface material.
Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
Major update to the GPU renderer adds support for CPU and hybrid rendering. Support for AMD GPUs on Windows and Linux to come.
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
Check out next year's roadmap for the GPU renderer, and the new features in OctaneRender 2022.1 XB0, the first public preview build.
Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
Updated, new demo: Check out the FAQs for Clarisse iFX's next-gen CPU/GPU render engine, and see how it performs on gaming GPUs.
Friday, September 17th, 2021
Big update to the look dev and rendering tool adds USD exporter, Arnold-compatible material and intuitive new lighting workflows.
Wednesday, May 5th, 2021
Maya edition of the renderer gets support for MaterialX, initial support for LookdevX, and the option to scatter lights with Chaos Scatter.
Monday, February 19th, 2024
Discover the latest changes to the open-source 3D app, from Geometry Nodes, Cycles and shading to the Viewport Compositor.
Tuesday, November 14th, 2023