September 14, 2021
Neat Maya and Houdini add-on lets you edit ultra-complex lighting set-ups interactively in the viewport. Read More »
July 7, 2021
Successor to Lumberyard is an unusual open-source 'AAA-capable' modular game engine that includes Amazon's new Atom renderer. Read More »
June 23, 2021
Intuitive new 'virtual photography' app features physics-aware layout tools, Vulkan-based GPU rendering. Read More »
June 9, 2021
New RDNA 2 GPUs are AMD's first workstation cards built for modern hardware-accelerated ray tracing. Read More »
April 27, 2021
Unexpectedly major update to the game engine adds a new web editor, new CPU lightmapper, and native support for Apple's M1 chips. Read More »
April 23, 2021
Check out the major features coming up in the open-source 3D software in this year's Blender 2.93 and Blender 3.0 releases. Read More »
April 16, 2021
Download the free Attic demo to try RTX global illumination, and see a video of direct lighting tech RTXDI. Read More »
April 9, 2021
Amazon's free game engine to get new 'high-performance physically based renderer' with an interesting modular design. Read More »
October 22, 2020
Developer can now influence development of key graphics standards used in Blender like OpenCL, OpenXR. Read More »
September 30, 2020
New spec aims to reboot the GPU compute API for a new generation of CG tools. SDK now available. Read More »
August 24, 2020
Open-source physically based GPU render engine gets support for Light Path Expressions, MaterialX. Read More »
June 23, 2020
Check out the features due in the next update to the game engine, now postponed from spring 2020. Read More »
May 18, 2020
SDK update to the free, hardware-agnostic GPU renderer promises faster rendering on CPU plus GPU. Read More »
May 16, 2020
Free plugin enables GPU path tracing and 'full spectrum rendering' in UE4 on AMD GPUs. Read More »
April 28, 2020
Major stable release of the GPU renderer adds RTX acceleration, improved SSS and hair shading. Read More »
April 18, 2020
Cinema 4D real-time render engine to get support for particle rendering and SSS - and a new Maya edition. Read More »
March 19, 2020
The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers. Read More »
February 4, 2020
Strings-free dev grant will be used to improve the open-source game engine's rendering capabilities. Read More »
January 30, 2020
Leading open-source game engine gets revamped shader editor, glTF 2.0 and FBX import, and a new pseudo-3D system for 2D games. Read More »
December 24, 2019
Updated: Free GPU renderer's new hybrid rasterised/ray traced mode now works on AMD Polaris GPUs on Windows. Read More »
