SideFX announces v2.0 of Substance in Houdini
New integration plugin will let Houdini process Substance height maps as well as material data.
Tuesday, August 13th, 2019
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Rendering Systems releases ShaderMap 4.2
Texture map generation tool gets new low-cost student and personal licences for non-commercial work.
Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
Corona Renderer 4 ships for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D
Updated - C4D edition shipping: renderer gets fast new caustics system, more denoising options, fisheye camera.
Tuesday, June 18th, 2019
Richard Rosenman releases Particle Projection 1.0
New After Effects motion graphics plugin uses displacement to generate animated particle arrays.
Monday, May 13th, 2019
Pixar ships RenderMan 22.5
Update adds support for live displacement editing, SIMD acceleration for OSL. Houdini integration "completely rewritten".
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
e-on software ships Vue R2 and PlantFactory R2
Vue gets updates to EcoSystems, the cloud tools and the Path Tracer; PlantFactory gets interactive path traced previews.
Thursday, April 25th, 2019
Allegorithmic ships Substance Painter 2019.1
Big update to the texture painting app adds neat dynamic strokes system, viewport displacement.
Wednesday, April 24th, 2019
Luxion ships KeyShot 8.2
Latest update to the renderer adds the option to pause offline renders, better support for Alembic files, and network rendering on Linux.
Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 3 for 3ds Max
Renderer gets support for GPU-based render denoising, better displacement, reduced RAM use.
Friday, November 23rd, 2018
Quixel ships Quixel Mixer 2018.2
Intuitive app for blending scanned materials gets new Eye Dropper tool, better straight line painting.
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Download 50 free 8K PBR textures from Texture Haven
New site provides high-resolution scanned textures of environment materials under a CC0 licence.
Thursday, June 21st, 2018
Quixel releases Quixel Mixer 1.0 in beta
Quixel's intuitive tool for blending scanned materials now out in beta. Free to Megascans subscribers.
Friday, May 18th, 2018
AMD releases Radeon ProRender for Blender
Free, physically accurate GPU renderer now available for Blender, as well as Max, Maya, SolidWorks.
Thursday, June 29th, 2017