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Support for 180° and 360° stereo rendering in Vue; new base geometries for leaves and flowers in PlantFactory.

Tuesday, November 21st, 2017

Node-based tool for authoring effects filters gets new workflow to support any 2D image-editing app.

Tuesday, November 21st, 2017

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

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

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

Download a male head and complete female figure in OBJ format for use in your own sculpting work.

Sunday, November 19th, 2017

Node-based compositing system for iPads gets new colour grading tools, including support for LUTs.

Saturday, November 18th, 2017

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

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

Big update to the SketchUp edition of the renderer adds support for viewport rendering and hybrid CPU/GPU renders.

Thursday, November 16th, 2017

Old free desktop edition of the software replaced by new browser-based version. Check out the differences here.

Thursday, November 16th, 2017

Architectural modeling tool gets new options for section cuts and BIM data, plus native STL export.

Thursday, November 16th, 2017

Pioneering cloud-based platform to shut down in favor of development work for current owner Autodesk.

Wednesday, November 15th, 2017