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5 key features in Blender 4.1

Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D app, from better baking to improvements to Cycles and the Sequencer.

Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 5.0

Check out the new features in the popular Maya fur and feathers plugin, including a new production-ready Viewport 2.0 hair shader.

Tuesday, March 5th, 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

JangaFX releases LiquiGen 0.1

Much-anticipated real-time liquid simulator gets first public preview. See which features are in the initial alpha, and which are coming later.

Tuesday, February 13th, 2024

JangaFX releases EmberGen 1.1

See what's new in this big update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator, like the option to parent emitters to bones in characters.

Wednesday, January 24th, 2024

Ephere releases Ornatrix 8 for 3ds Max

Check out the new features in the hair and fur plugin, including a point-and-click groom-creation system, and the option to 'box' operators.

Friday, December 15th, 2023

JangaFX ships EmberGen 1.0.7

Popular real-time smoke and fire simulator gets support for ground plane shadows, and initial support for importing skinned meshes.

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023