Octane X is now available in the Mac App Store
Metal-native GPU renderer is now free for a year on any Mac capable of running macOS 11.2 Big Sur.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
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Exlevel ships GrowFX 2.0
Long-awaited overhaul of the 3ds Max plant-generation plugin adds new Node Editor for authoring plants via visual programming.
Monday, March 8th, 2021
Download free UV packing tool UV-Packer for Blender
New Blender edition of 3d-io's popular 3ds Max plugin optimises UV packing of complex models.
Monday, March 1st, 2021
Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 GPU
See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range Ampere card performs in real-world DCC and GPU rendering tests.
Saturday, February 27th, 2021
Houdini Engine for UE4 and Unity now free to all users
Houdini Engine plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine now free for larger studios, not just indie artists.
Friday, February 26th, 2021
Download Nvidia's Omniverse and Omniverse Create
Updated: new connection plugins available for Nvidia's collaboration platform, now in free public beta.
Friday, February 26th, 2021
Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 1
Update adds support for masks in the V-Ray Frame Buffer, better caustics and translucent materials.
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
Chaos rolls out Chaos Cosmos
New online library of architectural 3D models is optimised for V-Ray and Chaos Vantage. Free to users of selected versions of V-Ray 5.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
Eye candy: Chaos Czech's new Corona Renderer showreel
See beautiful new work rendered in Corona, from photorealistic visualisations to animated shorts.
Monday, February 22nd, 2021
Pulze ships Post Manager 1.2
Arch viz workflow tool automates assembly of Photoshop files from elements rendered in V-Ray, Corona - and now FStormRender.
Monday, February 22nd, 2021
Get a free 46,080 x 23,040px displacement map of the Moon
Download this detailed free texture map to recreate the lunar surface in 3D. Licensed for commercial use.
Sunday, February 21st, 2021
Check out super-cool 3ds Max snow plugin PolySnow Plus
Neat plugin for adding realistic snow to 3D scenes gets brush-based sculpting, new icicle object.
Friday, February 19th, 2021
Hair Cards Tool for Max creates strip-based hair for games
Check out Gameloft character artist Mihail Lupu's neat new 3ds Max tool for creating fast-rendering hair.
Friday, February 19th, 2021