hdRstr ray traces thousands of area lights in real time
Neat Maya and Houdini add-on lets you edit ultra-complex lighting set-ups interactively in the viewport.
Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
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Master character look dev in Maya and Arnold
Discover how to light and shade a photorealistic human character with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.
Sunday, July 25th, 2021
Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 3.7
Turn your Blender, 3ds Max and Maya scenes into browser-based 3D apps - and now, into native iOS, Android or desktop apps as well.
Friday, May 28th, 2021
Check out Nvidia's RTXDI and RTXGI GPU ray tracing demos
Download the free Attic demo to try RTX global illumination, and see a video of direct lighting tech RTXDI.
Friday, April 16th, 2021
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2020.1
Big update gives the visualisation tool new rendering features, better 3D characters and plants - and an aggressive new price.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
Crytek releases CryEngine 5.6
Game engine gets support for area lights and multilayer microfacet materials, new ragdoll IK system and updates to cloth simulation.
Friday, August 30th, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 13.1
It's mainly a performance release, but there are new modelling and character rigging tools, plus support for the AxF material format.
Friday, August 16th, 2019
RandomControl launches Maverick Studio
Updated: new visualisation tool from the creators of the Arion renderer gets perpetual licences.
Tuesday, June 18th, 2019
cebas ships finalRender Drop 2
Update to 3ds Max renderer improves path tracing speed, adds new 'biasHybrid' render mode, HDRI denoising, random walk SSS.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Carbon Drop 4
Real-time lighting design tool gets new gamma control for images, plus option to batch import HDRIs.
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
Unity Technologies reveals Unity 2018 product roadmap
See the new graphics features due in Unity 2018.1 to 2018.3, from new materials and animation options to the GPU lightmapper.
Friday, March 23rd, 2018
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 5.4
Real-time lighting design tool adds new ways to position area lights or virtual lights within HDRI maps.
Friday, December 16th, 2016
Lightmap ships HDR Light Studio 5.3
Real-time lighting tool now lets users add area lights to a scene by 'painting' highlights onto surfaces.
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016