August 10, 2018
Free plugin for editing Substance materials in 3ds Max now supports animation and network rendering. Read More »
August 9, 2018
Standalone render denoising tools get new options to cut EXR file sizes by 'up to 90%', new Nuke and Arnold plugins. Read More »
July 20, 2018
Powerful Maya fur and feathers plugin gets new Braids geometry type, support for layered grooms, option to scatter points on fibres. Read More »
May 31, 2018
V-Ray Next is a landmark update. Chaos Group reveals the thinking behind it, and the forces shaping rendering tools. Read More »
April 5, 2018
Maya crowd-simulation software gets new flocking system and simulation cache-editing options, plus support for layered caches. Read More »
March 19, 2018
Top gaseous fluid simulator gets GPU-accelerated viewport preview, smoother simulation retiming, better fluid advection. Read More »
December 1, 2017
Maya crowd simulation tool gets new 'brain share' feature for AI agents, improved Direct Logic engine and instancing system. Read More »
November 3, 2017
Standalone render denoising tool gets streamlined full-screen GUI. CUDA version dropped in favour of 'faster, more reliable' OpenCL. Read More »
October 25, 2017
Updated: neat plugin live links Substance Painter to Blender, Modo or Maya - and now 3ds Max and V-Ray. Read More »
August 7, 2017 | 2 comments
Heavyweight renderer to get new live link to compatible DCC apps, new hybrid CPU/GPU render tech. Read More »
August 3, 2017
GPU renderer gets better sampling, firefly removal, Mac support, Cinema 4D and Katana plugins. Read More »
June 29, 2017
Maya crowd animation tool gets new options for creating custom AI, support for traffic simulation, plus new dynamic emission system. Read More »
June 27, 2017
Foundry to resell the high-performance USD/Alembic data-transfer framework used on Logan and Doctor Strange. Read More »
June 23, 2017
See how current Nvidia workstation and gaming GPUs compare in this real-world render benchmark test. Read More »
June 23, 2017
Simulate large scenes up to 20x faster with the Maya crowd tool's new intelligent instancing system. Redshift support also now added. Read More »
May 11, 2017 | 1 comment
New plugin version of Mental Ray is the first for 3ds Max 2018. Use it for free, if not for network renders. Read More »
April 6, 2017 | 4 comments
Popular GPU-based renderer coming to OS X. Maya version to ship first, with Cinema 4D and Houdini to follow. Read More »
March 17, 2017 | 1 comment
3ds Max scene and render pass manager gets Deadline integration, 'universal render engine support'. Read More »
February 24, 2017
Handy Maya plugin for streamlining look dev workflow can now control Redshift lens shaders from within the VPR window. Read More »
February 18, 2017
New integration plugin for the GPU renderer supports Houdini's native primitives, instancing and volumes. Read More »
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