Mental Ray: a retrospective
To mark the news that Nvidia is to discontinue the renderer, we look back over the highs and lows of nearly 30 years of Mental Ray.
Monday, November 20th, 2017
Latest News
Nvidia discontinues Mental Ray
Sales of the standalone renderer and the 3ds Max and Maya plugins stop today. Work on Iray continues via Nvidia's development partners.
Monday, November 20th, 2017
Learn five lessons from award-winning short 'Coin Operated'
Director Nicholas Arioli reveals the secrets of making your first short at a free talk at Gnomon this evening. Watch free online.
Monday, November 20th, 2017
Get Javier Zuccarino's free male and female base meshes
Download a male head and complete female figure in OBJ format for use in your own sculpting work.
Sunday, November 19th, 2017
Pixel Splincher releases Bricolage 2.0 for iOS
Node-based compositing system for iPads gets new colour grading tools, including support for LUTs.
Saturday, November 18th, 2017
OptiTrack ships Motive 2.0
Mocap software for firm's optical tracking systems gets neat ability to 'self-heal' calibration drift, support for OptiTrack Active VR solutions,
Friday, November 17th, 2017
3DFlow ships 3DF Zephyr 3.5
Photogrammetry software gets support for custom shaders, option to export textures in EXR format or as 32-bit TIFFs, 4K video output.
Thursday, November 16th, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.6 for SketchUp
Big update to the SketchUp edition of the renderer adds support for viewport rendering and hybrid CPU/GPU renders.
Thursday, November 16th, 2017
Trimble cans SketchUp Make, launches SketchUp Free
Old free desktop edition of the software replaced by new browser-based version. Check out the differences here.
Thursday, November 16th, 2017
Trimble releases SketchUp Pro 2018
Architectural modeling tool gets new options for section cuts and BIM data, plus native STL export.
Thursday, November 16th, 2017
Lagoa to close its online rendering service
Pioneering cloud-based platform to shut down in favor of development work for current owner Autodesk.
Wednesday, November 15th, 2017
Liquid Dream Solutions ships ButterflyNetRender 7.0
Update to renderfarm manager restores desktop controller app in addition to web-based interface.
Tuesday, November 14th, 2017
Xsens releases MVN Animate 2018
Firm claims that its new software lets inertial motion capture match optical systems for data accuracy.
Monday, November 13th, 2017