Pixar ships RenderMan Pro Server 17.0 and Studio 4.0
Both feature improved instancing, photon mapping and volumetrics; price of Studio edition cut by $700.
Monday, October 8th, 2012
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RandomControl releases Arion 2.0
Physically accurate hybrid renderer gets major update - but it's now mainly for Max and Softimage users.
Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
LightWave 11.5 feature list 'announced'
Although probably not officially, given that it's on the Amazon EC2 cloud. Warning: may contain spoilers.
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Golaem ships Golaem Crowd 1.4
Artist-friendly Maya crowd simulator gains support for mental ray rendering, new instancing tools.
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Evermotion adds instancing to NOX render engine
Latest update to the free unbiased renderer for 3ds Max and Blender rewrites entire geometry engine.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
NewTek begins shipping LightWave 11
Now out of bugfixing and available to purchase, to judge from the new 'Buy Now' button on the NewTek site.
Friday, February 17th, 2012
NewTek announces new features of LightWave 11
Extensive update to feature former CORE technologies like Bullet physics: due to ship by end of year.
Friday, November 11th, 2011
e-on software ships Carbon Scatter and Ozone 5 PLE
New instancing plug-in for 3ds Max and trial version of the atmosphere generator now available.
Friday, March 11th, 2011
Carbon Scatter for 3ds Max enters open beta
New plug-in provides the power of Vue's EcoSystem instancing technology direct inside Max.
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010