Export from Blender to Maxwell Render with BtoMW

Render Blender scenes in Next Limit's physically based renderer with this new .mxs file exporter.

Friday, May 25th, 2012

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino

Update adds features familiar from V-Ray for 3ds Max, including V-Ray RT renderer and VRayDirt shader.

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Chaos Group ships V-Ray for Softimage

New Softimage port of the industry-standard renderer now out of beta and available for use.

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Chaos Group releases update to V-Ray for Maya 2.0

Free upgrade adds dedicated new hair material, improvements to GPU-based interactive preview renderer.

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

Chaos Group ships update to V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max

Free update adds native support for Ornatrix hair, improved fur rendering, expanded GPU-based workflow.

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Maxwell Render now free for Google SketchUp

For images under 800 pixels in size, at least, thanks to Next Limit's new standalone rendering plug-in.

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Chaos Group releases beta of V-Ray for Softimage

Industry-standard renderer finally available for Softimage users: register to download the beta today.

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Friday nostalgia: mind-popping 3D art of the 1990s

Take a trip down memory lane to see 12 of the best/worst images created by people on POV-Ray.

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Review: V-Ray 2.0

Jason Lewis takes the 3ds Max plug-in renderer's new materials, stereo options and GPU-accelerated preview for a test drive.

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Videos: see new features in V-Ray 2.0 for Maya

Check out GPU accleration, the new car paint shader and Ptex workflow in the new version of the renderer, released today.

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Useful resource: the MintViz 3ds Max/V-Ray blog

Well-presented new blog provides solutions to common rendering and visualisation problems.

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Chaos Group announces beta of V-Ray for Maya 2.0

Free beta program brings GPU-accelerated rendering to Maya users. Full release later this month.

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Chaos Group reveals V-Ray 2.0 for Maya tour dates

Live in the US or Canada? Come and get a sneak peak at the new renderer later this month.

Friday, March 11th, 2011