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Wednesday, March 18th, 2020

iCube R&D Group ships MultiScatter 1.5 for 3ds Max

Scattering plugin gets improved object painting and distribution, plus option to scatter V-Ray Lights.

Thursday, February 27th, 2020

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Friday, November 29th, 2019

Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for Maya Update 2

Update adds RTX-accelerated GPU ray tracing, new animation-friendly light cache and deep EXR output.

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019

Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 3

Rendering on current Nvidia GPUs now 'about 40%' faster, thanks to new support for RTX acceleration.

Wednesday, November 20th, 2019

Foundry ships Mari 4.6

Update extends the 3D texturing app's procedural materials system, adds V-Ray and 3Delight shaders, and streamlines the node graph.

Wednesday, November 6th, 2019

Download MASD's free Arnold to V-Ray scene converter

Mads Drøschler's handy 3ds Max add-on converts V-Ray and Corona scenes to Arnold for rendering.

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019

LuxCoreRender 2.2 ships

Open-source renderer gets new GI cache system, Disney BRDF material and Open Image Denoise. Now compatible with Blender 2.80.

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019

Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Rhino Update 1

Rhino edition of the renderer gets new Cryptomatte render element, expanded support for Grasshopper.

Friday, September 27th, 2019

Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Houdini

Now shipping: new edition of V-Ray lets VFX studios use Houdini for look dev as well as final rendering.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 2

Renderer gets new toon shader, debug shading, memory tracking tools, and updates to V-Ray GPU.

Wednesday, June 5th, 2019

Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for Maya Update 1

Renderer gets V-Ray GPU updates, Cryptomatte support for VRayProxy, and new memory tracking system.

Monday, May 13th, 2019

Quixel supports the MDL material format in Megascans

Popular library of real-world scan data adopts the cross-application material format supported in V-Ray and Unreal Studio.

Tuesday, April 30th, 2019