Sneak peek: V-Ray's new Adaptive Lights system

See Dabarti's neat comparative tests of the new intelligent light sampling system due in V-Ray 3.5.

Monday, November 14th, 2016

Chaos Group puts Arnold's alSurface shader in V-Ray

Download the free V-Ray version of the VFX industry-standard shader. Works with both Max and Maya.

Sunday, October 9th, 2016

Review: Iray for 3ds Max

Jason Lewis benchmarks the new, more powerful plugin version of Nvidia's GPU-based renderer with a range of real-world graphics cards.

Thursday, July 14th, 2016

Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Modo

New native Modo version of renderer uses same core tech as Max and Maya versions, but costs $340 less.

Wednesday, July 6th, 2016

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.3 for Nuke

Update tightens integration between V-Ray and Nuke, adds new features from 3ds Max edition of the renderer.

Friday, April 22nd, 2016

iToo Software ships Forest Pack 5.0, RailClone 2.6

3ds Max scattering and modelling plugins get 'up to 100%' speed boost on V-Ray renders, new UI to manage large scenes.

Tuesday, April 12th, 2016

3DStudio.nl ships Universal Material Converter for Max

Neat script converts all the materials in a 3ds Max scene into their V-Ray, mental ray, Iray, Corona equivalents.

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.3 for Maya

Maya edition of the renderer gets feature parity with 3ds Max; speed boosts of 20-50% on 'most scenes'.

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016

Render Legion previews Corona 1.4 for 3ds Max

Next version of renderer to add adaptive image sampling, new denoising system. Cinema 4D version due this year.

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

Gnomon releases detailed Introduction to V-Ray

Get up to speed with the renderer with Psyop CG supervisor Stephen DeLalla's 10-hour training course.

Friday, February 12th, 2016

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.3 for 3ds Max

Sizeable update boosts render speed by up to 50% and adds over 25 new and updated features.

Friday, December 18th, 2015

AlphaVFX ships BulletFX 3.0 for 3ds Max

Updated: New extension release gives the multiphysics plugin support for variable viscosity fluids and a new foam solver.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2015

Review: HP ZBook 17 G2 mobile workstation

Jason Lewis puts HP's top-of-the-range pro mobile system through a battery of real-world tests.

Tuesday, November 10th, 2015