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Cycles

Promising lightweight Blender fluids add-on can now bake simulations for export to game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine.

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024

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

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

Zhihao Yao's beautiiful new $15 plugin provides a complete 'toolkit for creating 3D ink paintings' inside the open-source 3D software.

Thursday, February 15th, 2024

Multi-billion-primitive scene was rendered on a Radeon Pro W7900 via a fork of the pbrt renderer using AMD's HIP RT 2.2 ray tracing library.

Tuesday, February 6th, 2024

Popular library of 3D plants updated to work with polygoniq's open-source engon asset browser. Download 38 of the assets for free.

Sunday, January 28th, 2024

Unofficial Blender integration for the Corona renderer gets support for Blender 4.0 and an automated converter for Cycles shaders.

Friday, January 19th, 2024

Physical Addons' promising plugin generates photorealistic animated ocean surfaces, and is lightweight enough to run on a laptop.

Thursday, November 23rd, 2023

See how the 'most powerful pro workstation graphics card under $1,000' performs with apps like 3ds Max, Maya and After Effects.

Friday, November 17th, 2023

Discover the latest changes to the open-source 3D app, from Geometry Nodes, Cycles and shading to the Viewport Compositor.

Tuesday, November 14th, 2023

Check out the neat $20 Geometry Nodes-based add-on, capable of generating simple, good-looking fluid sims in 'semi-realtime'.

Wednesday, September 27th, 2023

Appealing add-on lets you 'draw' ivy - and 70 other species of plants - directly onto your 3D meshes.

Monday, August 21st, 2023

Download 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Maya and SketchUp models, plus PBR texture sets and 18K HDRIs.

Wednesday, July 19th, 2023