Adobe releases Substance Painter 2020.1
3D texture painting tool gets new real-time decal mode, GPU-based curvature map baker, Python API.
Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
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Luxion ships KeyShot 9.2
Update adds support for sharing GPU memory via NVLink in the new GPU render engine, plus optimised new Transparent Medium material.
Monday, April 6th, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.82
Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.
Friday, February 14th, 2020
Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range gaming GPU performs in our real-world 3D and GPU rendering tests.
Thursday, February 6th, 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
Check out open-source 3D painting tool ArmorPaint
Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.
Monday, January 13th, 2020
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2020.1 in public preview
GPU renderer gets updated RTX acceleration, new spectral sky and daylight system, ACES support.
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
Nvidia drops macOS support for CUDA
This week's 10.2 release of CUDA Toolkit, used by many GPU render engines, is the last to run on Macs.
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.81
The leading open-source 3D package gets another big update. Check out the key features here.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
Tech focus: Modo's new mPath render engine
Modo's new path tracer promises faster, more flexible renders than the default CPU engine. Discover how it works.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
Real-time ray tracing, Havok physics due in Unity this year
Updated: Havok Physics now out as a preview package. DXR ray tracing also available in preview.
Thursday, November 7th, 2019
Adobe ships Dimension 3.0
Designer-focused 3D tool gets support for multiple directional lights, improved render preview, early support for GPU rendering.
Monday, November 4th, 2019
Group test: Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX GPUs
Which Nvidia GPU is best for DCC work? Jason Lewis benchmarks the firm's new Turing graphics cards.
Friday, October 11th, 2019