Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.1

Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support.

Friday, April 6th, 2018

Master Environment Creation for VR Using Photogrammetry

Create a detailed, production-ready immersive environment inside Unity with Gnomon's step-by-step guide.

Thursday, April 5th, 2018

Basefount ships Miarmy 6.2

Maya crowd-simulation software gets new flocking system and simulation cache-editing options, plus support for layered caches.

Thursday, April 5th, 2018

Download E*D Films' free Scene Track exporter for Unity

Record gameplay in real time, then export the animation data in FBX format with this neat free add-on.

Sunday, April 1st, 2018

e-on ships Vue 2016 R5 and PlantFactory 2016 R5

Environment-creation software gets new LOD export options, better Ptex support. Plant generator gets new Flower node.

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

Unity Technologies reveals Unity 2018 product roadmap

See the new graphics features due in Unity 2018.1 to 2018.3, from new materials and animation options to the GPU lightmapper.

Friday, March 23rd, 2018

Eye candy: the new Fracture FX client reel

See people, buildings and vehicles explode spectacularly in the Maya demolition tool's greatest hits reel.

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.19

Update adds live link plugins for Maya and MotionBuilder, material layers, physical units for lights.

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

Autodesk ships Mudbox 2018.2

First major update to the digital sculpting tool in years adds neat new dynamic tessellation system, plus support for HiDPI displays.

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

Sneak peek: see Arnold's new toon shader in action

New video also shows other features due in the renderer, like support for USD and MaterialX.

Thursday, March 8th, 2018

Chaos Group launches V-Ray Cloud in beta

Sign up now to test this intuitive new cloud rendering service integrated directly inside V-Ray.

Thursday, March 1st, 2018

Chaos Group releases Beta 2 of V-Ray Next for 3ds Max

Latest beta adds Nvidia's AI-based OptiX render denoising system, GPU volume rendering, updates to the hair shader.

Friday, February 23rd, 2018

Autodesk posts Softimage to Arnold source code on GitHub

Code for the SitoA plugin available via an Apache 2.0 licence. Latest update supports Arnold 5.0.2.4.

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018