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Physical material

Check out the new features in the popular hard surface modeling tool, including a new instancing system, and shareable web previews.

Tuesday, December 16th, 2025

Check out the new features in this wide-ranging update to the NURBS modeler, including new physical materials and HDRI environments.

Thursday, July 10th, 2025

3D modelling and rendering software gets glTF support, plus updates to the Physical Material, retopology tools and auto-backup.

Wednesday, March 30th, 2022

Updated: 3ds Max and Cinema 4D editions of the renderer both ship. Check out their new features here.

Wednesday, August 4th, 2021

Check out the new features due in the next major update to the 3ds Max and Cinema 4D renderer.

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021

Update adds support for masks in the V-Ray Frame Buffer, better caustics and translucent materials.

Wednesday, February 24th, 2021

Update to the 3D software adds new retopology tools and support for bloom effects in the viewport.

Thursday, December 3rd, 2020

Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

Unity 2019.3 ships

Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs.

Tuesday, January 28th, 2020

Modo's new path tracer promises faster, more flexible renders than the default CPU engine. Discover how it works.

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

3D modelling and animation tool gets new mPath render engine, new Planar IK solver for character rigging, new Edge Chamfer tool.

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

See details of the new features coming to the game engine across Unity 2020.1, 2020.2 and 2020.3

Friday, September 27th, 2019

Tool for converting 3D scenes into interactive web apps gets support for WebGL 2.0, better anti-aliasing.

Wednesday, May 8th, 2019