Chaos releases Vantage 2.4

Real-time ray tracing renderer for exploring large V-Ray scenes gets support for UDIM textures and the V-Ray Decal system.

Thursday, May 23rd, 2024

Chaos announces V-Ray for ARM

Firm plans 'general support' for the V-Ray renderer on Linux systems with ARM CPUs to cut power use without compromising performance.

Wednesday, May 1st, 2024

Building Natural Environments Using Gaea & Houdini

Discover how to recreate real-world environments for VFX and game cinematics with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.

Saturday, March 30th, 2024

Chaos releases Vantage 2.3

Real-time ray tracing renderer for exploring large V-Ray scenes gets support for the V-Ray Blend Material and Multi Matte render element.

Friday, March 29th, 2024

New pricing for Unreal Engine, Twinmotion and RealityCapture

Epic Games has announced new subscription-based pricing for its key software products. See who the changes affect, and when they start.

Tuesday, March 12th, 2024

Tutorial: Creating a High-Fidelity Hero Building

Discover how to create environment assets for VFX or games cinematics in The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Saturday, March 2nd, 2024

Is V-Ray for Blender back in active development?

Chaos is working on the integration between its V-Ray renderer and the open-source 3D software 'right now', according to its latest livestream.

Tuesday, February 27th, 2024

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Maya Update 2

Maya edition of the renderer gets support for MaterialX, initial support for LookdevX, and the option to scatter lights with Chaos Scatter.

Monday, February 19th, 2024

Open-source project ZLUDA lets CUDA apps run on AMD GPUs

Experimental tech lets NVIDIA-only apps, including RealityCapture and Arnold, run unmodified on AMD GPUs. Check out our FAQs on it.

Friday, February 16th, 2024

tyFlow 1.1 for 3ds Max adds new PRISM fracturing system

Check out the popular 3ds Max particle and multiphysics add-on's neat new GPU-accelerated mesh fracturing and Boolean system.

Tuesday, January 30th, 2024

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for SketchUp Update 2

Check out the latest features in the renderer, including major updates to object scattering and support for Enmesh in V-Ray GPU.

Monday, December 11th, 2023

Chaos releases Vantage 2.2

Real-time renderer for exploring large V-Ray scenes gets better hair and fur rendering, better denoising and upscaling, new firefly filter.

Saturday, December 9th, 2023

Foundry releases Mari 7.0

3D texture painting software gets new Vulkan-based geometry map baking system, and more procedural texturing nodes

Monday, December 4th, 2023