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Check out the changes to the production renderer, including updates to hair shading, bloom effects, and Global Light Sampling.

Thursday, November 13th, 2025

Check out the new features in the SketchUp edition of renderer, like cutaway rendering in V-Ray GPU.

Thursday, June 1st, 2023

Check out the new features in this wide-ranging update to the renderer, including USD export.

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

Next major update to the GPU renderer to feature Nanite-like 'meshlet streaming' system, long-awaited Brigade spectral kernel.

Wednesday, December 21st, 2022

3D design and animation software gets new smoke and fire simulation system and native Redshift camera.

Thursday, November 10th, 2022

VFX production renderer gets new V-Ray-style light mixer, improved GPU rendering and USD support, and support for OpenColorIO 2.0.

Saturday, January 30th, 2021

Renderer gets new post effects framework, physically correct nested dielectrics, improvements to USD support and Arnold GPU.

Thursday, October 29th, 2020

3ds Max renderer gets new sky model, better Phoenix FD support, adaptive environment sampling.

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

Renderer gets neat new sky model, new distance map and V-Ray-style adaptive environment sampling.

Wednesday, August 26th, 2020

Update adds hardware-accelerated rendering on Nvidia RTX GPUs, and improves material editing workflow.

Wednesday, February 19th, 2020

Renderer gets new toon shader, debug shading, memory tracking tools, and updates to V-Ray GPU.

Wednesday, June 5th, 2019

Big update adds new Adaptive Lights system, resumable renders, greatly extends GPU rendering.

Friday, February 10th, 2017

Read a run-down of what's new in the landscape-generation software on Planetside's updated website.

Tuesday, October 11th, 2016