Chaos releases Vantage 3.0
Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer adds initial support for USD, MaterialX, 3D Gaussian Splatting, and volumes.
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
V-Ray
Chaos releases V-Ray 7.2 for SketchUp with new AI Upscaler
Major update to the SketchUp edition of the renderer adds new AI tool for upscaling renders to 16K. Check out all the other new features.
Thursday, October 9th, 2025
Chaos adopts HIP to unleash AMD acceleration in V-Ray GPU
[Sponsored] Discover how Chaos is porting the GPU functionality of its industry-leading V-Ray renderer to run on AMD Radeon PRO GPUs.
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Globe Plants to close its online store next month
Popular 3D plant creator's models will be available via Chaos's Cosmos asset library after its e-store closes on 1 October 2025.
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Maxon 'pauses' development of Redshift for Blender
Blender plugin for the GPU renderer not updated for the Redshift 2026.0 release as Maxon 'redirects its development focus' elsewhere.
Thursday, September 11th, 2025
Chaos adds AI Material Generator to V-Ray 7.1.2 for SketchUp
Experimental cloud-based tool generates PBR materials and texture maps from real-world reference photos. Find more details here.
Thursday, September 4th, 2025
Ephere releases Ornatrix 3ds Max 9
Check out the changes to the 3ds Max hair plugin for games and VFX, including a new Warp Roots modifier to help groom feathers.
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
Ephere releases Ornatrix Maya 5
Check out the changes to the Maya plugin for creating hair and fur for games and VFX, including fast new workflows for braiding hair.
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
3D Gaussian Splats are being added to the glTF standard
New collaboration between Khronos Group and the Open Geospatial Consortium paves the way towards support for 3DGS data in glTF files.
Friday, August 29th, 2025
Chaos releases V-Ray 7.1 for Blender
First big update to the new edition of V-Ray for Blender users adds support for Geometry Nodes and a Cycles-to-V-Ray material converter.
Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
Chaos adds new AI tools to V-Ray in V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max, Update 2
Check out the new AI Material Generator and image enhancer in this major update to Chaos's production renderer.
Thursday, August 7th, 2025
Chaos Cosmos to get new Globe Plants and Evermotion assets
Big update adds over 30,000 new stock assets to the library available to Corona and V-Ray subscribers, including 3D plants and furniture.
Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
See CG benchmarks for AMD's Threadripper 9980X and 9970X
Discover how AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series CPUs performed in CG apps like Blender, Maya and UE5 in our early tests.
Wednesday, July 30th, 2025