Luxion ships KeyShot 5.1
Renderer gets new procedural materials, better instancing tools; imports animation in C4D format.
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
instancing
Sneak peek: interactive renders in Corona Renderer
See the new 3ds Max renderer's CPU-based interactive preview tackle billion-poly instanced scenes.
Monday, October 20th, 2014
e-on software releases Carbon Scatter 2015
3ds Max, Maya and C4D instancing plugin gets intuitive new EcoSystem brushes, plus support for LoDs.
Tuesday, October 14th, 2014
Luxion ships KeyShot 5
Intuitive renderer with growing following among concept artists adds instancing, Sun & Sky system.
Friday, May 30th, 2014
Videos: see the new features in Maya 2015
Major update adds new FX tools, new skinning system, lots of smaller features. See them all in action here.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
Planetside Software unveils Terragen 3.1
New instancing features, plus the option to use satellite photos to generate instant textured terrain.
Tuesday, February 4th, 2014
Solid Iris Technologies releases Thea Render 1.3
Updated: GPU render engine gets speed boosts, instancing and SSS; also physical sky and Z-clipping.
Wednesday, December 18th, 2013
Next Limit ships Maxwell Render 3
Sizeable update to the physically based renderer adds new tools for for suns, seas and surface scattering.
Thursday, December 5th, 2013
Review: LightWave 11.0 to 11.6
Andy Bishop looks back over NewTek's11.x series of releases, and assesses what comes next.
Monday, November 11th, 2013
e-on software announces The Plant Factory
Updated: See the first test renders created with the plant modelling tool. And look - it can do mushrooms too.
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
iToo Software ships Forest Pack 4 for 3ds Max
Vegetation scattering plugin now compatible with V-Ray, Maxwell, Arion, Octane and Thea Render.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
Chaos Group ships V-Ray 2.4 for 3ds Max
Update to renderer adds support for Alembic geometry, instancing within V-Ray RT, Hair Farm hair.
Thursday, February 7th, 2013
e-on software releases Carbon Scatter 2
Updated: New trial version available of the vegetation instancing plugin for 3ds Max, Maya and Cinema 4D.
Friday, February 1st, 2013