Maxon releases Redshift 2026.3

Maxon has released Redshift 2026.3, the latest version of the GPU renderer for VFX, motion graphics and visualization work.

The release includes quality-of-life updates to the new Texture Displacement system and to texture projection. Houdini users get better support for Solaris and Copernicus.

Workflow improvements to texture mapping and displacement
Redshift 2026.3 is a bugfix and workflow update, adding the option to change an entire material to Camera mapping from the new UV Context Projection node added in Redshift 2026.2.

The new Texture Displacement system introduced in the same release now overrides and smooths all surface normals by default, to avoid holes in a mesh due to split normals.

Better support for Houdini’s Solaris and Copernicus frameworks
Houdini users get support for the Geometry Light LOP and Render Statistics panel in Solaris, Houdini’s shot layout and look dev environment.

The update also improves interactive performance inHoudini’s new Copernicus image-processing framework.

Price and system requirements
Redshift 2026.3 is compatible with Windows 10+, glibc 2.28+ Linux and macOS 14.0+.

The integration plugins are compatible with 3ds Max 2018+, Cinema 4D 2023+, Houdini 19.0+, Katana 5.0+ and Maya 2018+ (Maya 2022+ on Linux). The Blender plugin is no longer updated.

The software is rental-only. Subscriptions cost $49/month or $289/year.

Read a full list of changes in Redshift 2026.3 on the Redshift forum
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