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Chaos releases V-Ray 7.4 for Houdini

Houdini edition of the renderer gets support for relighting Gaussian splats, better volume rendering, tighter integration with Solaris.

Sunday, July 12th, 2026

Chaos releases V-Ray 7.4 for Maya

Maya edition of the renderer gets support for AMD GPU rendering, and better support for Bifrost and rendering 3D Gaussian Splats.

Friday, July 10th, 2026

Foundry releases Katana 9.0

Heavyweight lighting and look development tool gets a new 'UsdSuperLayer' and a preview of Hydra 2.0 rendering.

Wednesday, February 18th, 2026

UVPackmaster 4 for Blender is out

Popular GPU-accelerated UV packing add on gets new Dynamic Tiles system and more texel density controls. See all the changes.

Monday, January 19th, 2026

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 9.5

Check out the latest features in the real-time lighting design tool for visualization and VFX work, including better handling of Area Lights.

Thursday, January 15th, 2026

Foundry releases Mari 7.5

3D texture painting software gets long-awaited Multi-Paint system for projection-painting multiple texture maps simultaneously.

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025