Nvidia releases Mental Ray for 3ds Max
New plugin version of Mental Ray is the first for 3ds Max 2018. Use it for free, if not for network renders.
Thursday, May 11th, 2017
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Autodesk to discontinue perpetual licences of Arnold
Firm reverses its policy on acquiring the renderer from Solid Angle last April, moves to rental-only pricing.
Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
Moka Studio ships Mosketch
Pose characters by drawing limb positions and lines of action directly onto the viewport with Moka Studio's intriguing new tool.
Friday, May 5th, 2017
Paste models between 3D apps with this neat free tool
Paste geometry and UV maps between 3D packages with Oliver Hotz's OD_CopyPasteExternal.
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 6.5
3D clothing design tool gets new features to fine-tune cloth sims, including option to glue imported meshes to the fabric.
Wednesday, April 26th, 2017
Alexey Vanzhula releases Flux HDA for Houdini
Updated: Create complex real-time Booleans with this neat new tool. Also works in Maya and Cinema 4D via Houdini Engine.
Wednesday, April 26th, 2017
Fabric Software releases Fabric Engine 2.5
Platform for developing CG tools gets revamped Tab Search, 'Kludge' API for incorporating external C++ libraries.
Monday, April 24th, 2017
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5
Release improves speed and quality, adds new physically based shaders. Updated: new Houdini plugin HtoA 2.0 now available.
Friday, April 21st, 2017
SideFX cuts price of Houdini Engine
Cost of monthly rentals down from $195/month to $100/month; new $35/week option added.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3 for Rhino
Latest Rhino edition of the renderer gets 500 readymade materials; V-Ray Swarm distributed rendering.
Sunday, April 9th, 2017
Redshift team to make Redshift available on Macs
Popular GPU-based renderer coming to OS X. Maya version to ship first, with Cinema 4D and Houdini to follow.
Thursday, April 6th, 2017
3DtoAll ships MaxToModo
New live export plugin gets scenes from 3ds Max to Modo 'in two clicks'. Converts V-Ray materials to Modo equivalents automatically.
Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
Master Environment Creation for Film and Cinematics
New Gnomon tutorial reveals how to create a photorealistic 3D environment from start to finish.
Sunday, April 2nd, 2017