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layered material

Check out the new features in the VFX renderer, including OpenPBR support and changes to USD support specific to the Maya edition.

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025

Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Croods: A New Age.

Sunday, March 3rd, 2024

Read our run-down of the latest features in UE5, from procedural content and Substrate materials to Chaos Flesh.

Friday, May 12th, 2023

Check out the new features in the physically based GPU renderer. You can use it for free in a web browser.

Friday, March 17th, 2023

Now available: ray tracing renderer used on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has been released under an Apache 2.0 licence.

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023

Major update to the renderer adds new object scattering, decal and cutaway systems, plus new pricing.

Wednesday, April 13th, 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

Long-awaited rewrite of the C4D renderer adds built-in compositing and new GPU rendering features.

Friday, December 11th, 2020

3ds Max renderer gets support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia RTX graphics cards, plus GPU memory sharing via NVLink.

Saturday, March 14th, 2020

Game engine gets support for area lights and multilayer microfacet materials, new ragdoll IK system and updates to cloth simulation.

Friday, August 30th, 2019

Updated - C4D edition shipping: renderer gets fast new caustics system, more denoising options, fisheye camera.

Tuesday, June 18th, 2019

CryEngine 5.6 to add layered microfacet materials. CryEngine 5.7 to see real-time ray tracing, big animation update.

Monday, May 13th, 2019

Latest update to the renderer adds the option to pause offline renders, better support for Alembic files, and network rendering on Linux.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2019