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SideFX unveils Solaris

Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer.

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

Pixar ships RenderMan 22.6

Production renderer gets new Mari integration plugin, hdPrman plugin to render USD files, PxrCurvature for creating edge wear effects.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

Unity 2019.1 ships

Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

Crytek ships CryEngine 5.5

Long-awaited update to game engine updates GI system and Sandbox editor; introduces new 5%-of-royalties licensing model.

Monday, September 24th, 2018