September 14, 2021
Neat Maya and Houdini add-on lets you edit ultra-complex lighting set-ups interactively in the viewport. Read More »
August 23, 2021
See our pick of UE4's new features, from more in-camera visual effects tools to multi-GPU lightmap baking. Read More »
July 7, 2021
Successor to Lumberyard is an unusual open-source 'AAA-capable' modular game engine that includes Amazon's new Atom renderer. Read More »
June 21, 2021
Real-time rendering tool to explore V-Ray scenes gets new texture randomisation options. Now available free until December 2021. Read More »
June 9, 2021
New RDNA 2 GPUs are AMD's first workstation cards built for modern hardware-accelerated ray tracing. Read More »
May 28, 2021
Dimension 5's rapidly evolving RTX-accelerated GPU renderer for 3ds Max and Blender gets new time-and-latitude based sky system. Read More »
May 14, 2021
Powerful set of bonus tools now lets you use the Substance apps' high-speed texture baker in Mari. Read More »
April 16, 2021
Download the free Attic demo to try RTX global illumination, and see a video of direct lighting tech RTXDI. Read More »
December 4, 2020
Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping. Read More »
October 29, 2020
New 'Big Navi' cards go up against Nvidia's GeForce RTX GPUs - and feature dedicated ray tracing cores. Read More »
July 9, 2020
New tool for real-time ray traced previews of V-Ray scenes gets new animation editor, physical camera. Read More »
June 23, 2020
Check out the features due in the next update to the game engine, now postponed from spring 2020. Read More »
May 6, 2020
See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from new ray traced materials to LIDAR support. Read More »
March 19, 2020
The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers. Read More »
January 28, 2020
Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs. Read More »
January 13, 2020
Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity. Read More »
November 7, 2019
Updated: Havok Physics now out as a preview package. DXR ray tracing also available in preview. Read More »
November 4, 2019
Designer-focused 3D tool gets support for multiple directional lights, improved render preview, early support for GPU rendering. Read More »
September 4, 2019
Game engine gets eagerly anticipated Chaos destruction physics toolset, new virtual production tools. Read More »
August 1, 2019
All three applications to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia's RTX GPUs in future. Read More »
