November 12, 2019
Modo's new path tracer promises faster, more flexible renders than the default CPU engine. Discover how it works. Read More »
September 16, 2019
Open-source physically based renderer gets Cryptomatte support. neat new sampling control system. Read More »
August 29, 2019
Lighting and look dev tool gets new material node graph system; better hair shading and multi-camera rendering in its 3Delight renderer. Read More »
August 1, 2019
Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer. Read More »
July 31, 2019
Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways. Read More »
May 31, 2019
GPU renderer gets RTX support, higher trace depths, better AOVs. First experimental builds out now. Read More »
May 9, 2019
Update adds support for live displacement editing, SIMD acceleration for OSL. Houdini integration "completely rewritten". Read More »
March 27, 2019
New update adds OSL-based toon shading and built-in greenscreen keying, and makes viewport animation playback up to 2x faster. Read More »
March 26, 2019
See the updated feature lists for versions 2019.1 and 2019.2 of the GPU renderer. First preview of 2019.1 available now. Read More »
December 12, 2018
Update adds interactive rendering in the ActiveShade viewport, plus better OSL and Alembic support. Read More »
November 22, 2018
Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial. Read More »
September 20, 2018
Release adds new Fluid Loader object for tweaking and rendering cached sims, further updates to Alembic and OSL. Read More »
August 14, 2018
Next update to GPU renderer to add new procedural 'uberprimitive' and volumetric lighting system. Read More »
March 22, 2018
Now shipping: Watch videos of the new features, including support for Open Shading Language and the Advanced Wood procedural map. Read More »
December 5, 2017
Version 1.8 of the open-source physically based renderer also adds procedural objects, render-time instancing. Read More »
August 1, 2017
Powerful RenderMan-compliant renderer will be available as free interactive rendering plugin when Katana 3.0 ships. 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 »
June 1, 2017 | 1 comment
Update improves GPU rendering, adds support for Arnold's alShader, OSL, scenes created in other versions of V-Ray. Read More »
April 21, 2017
Release improves speed and quality, adds new physically based shaders. Updated: new Houdini plugin HtoA 2.0 now available. Read More »
March 31, 2017
See new features due in the next release of the renderer, including a physically based hair shader, better volumetrics, and support for OSL. Read More »
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