August 31, 2022
Check out the new features in the Maya edition of the renderer, from Enmesh geometry replication to support for USD volume shaders. Read More »
August 12, 2022
Open-source version of Material Definition Language to include the MDL Distiller and GLSL backend for real-time and viewport rendering. Read More »
July 24, 2022
Hotly tipped open-source material authoring and 3D texture painting app gets its milestone 1.0 release. Check out all of its new features. Read More »
July 7, 2021
Promising open-source node-based material authoring tool gets new 3D texture painting toolset. Read More »
April 9, 2020
Material-authoring tool gets new keyboard shortcut editor, revamped PBR render node, MaterialX plugin. 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 26, 2020
Neat open-source tool authors PBR texture maps using a Substance Designer-like node graph workflow. 0.8 update now out. Read More »
January 3, 2020
Free app provides an interesting range of features, particularly for vector and motion design work. Read More »
August 30, 2019
Material authoring software gets new set of tools for creating photo-based and synthetic HDR maps. Read More »
June 21, 2018
Now officially live. Create texture maps and GLSL shader code with Braindistrict's neat online service. Read More »
March 20, 2018
Next-but-one releases to add light linking, trace sets, new RNDR framework with support for iOS and integrated graphics. Read More »
November 18, 2017
Node-based compositing system for iPads gets new colour grading tools, including support for LUTs. Read More »
July 13, 2017
New open exchange standard for material data aims to do for look dev what Alembic did for geometry. Read More »
April 7, 2016
Support for CPU rendering, skinned characters and Brigade path tracing - plus OctaneImager, an entire new compositing app. Read More »
April 4, 2014
Good update for games artists adds physically correct shading, layered GLSL shaders, in-viewport IBL. Read More »
July 22, 2013
Image viewer and playback tool gets hardware-accelerated architecture, option to author GLSL shaders. Read More »
