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Hydra

Production renderer gets new Mari integration plugin, hdPrman plugin to render USD files, PxrCurvature for creating edge wear effects.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

New open-source tech to support interactive previews of USD files, and speed up volumetric renders.

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

Update adds support for live displacement editing, SIMD acceleration for OSL. Houdini integration "completely rewritten".

Thursday, May 9th, 2019

OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping.

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

Look dev and lighting tool gets new API to lay groundwork for native viewer based on Pixar's Hydra real-time rendering architecture.

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017

First preview of the next major version of the GPU renderer adds a new neural rendering mode, AI Light 2.0 sampling and USD export.

Monday, March 16th, 2026

Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool, including the option to save entire groups of tools as reusable presets.

Monday, March 16th, 2026

Experimental version of the game engine capable of 'really good' looking ray tracing is now available on GitHub under a MIT license.

Friday, March 13th, 2026

See what's new in the promising alternative to the Substance tools for texture painting and material authoring. Free to indie artists.

Thursday, March 12th, 2026

Check out the latest features in the free update to the industry-standard set of add-on tools for Foundry's 3D texture painting software.

Thursday, March 12th, 2026

Inexpensive add-on adds animated crowds to 3D scenes for animation or visualization - now including a ragdoll system for action shots.

Thursday, March 12th, 2026