Autodesk ships Arnold 6.0
Long-awaited GPU rendering system Arnold GPU now out of beta and ready for production use. Subs prices down for single users.
Thursday, December 12th, 2019
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Otoy releases OctaneRender 2020.1 in public preview
GPU renderer gets updated RTX acceleration, new spectral sky and daylight system, ACES support.
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
Esri ships CityEngine 2019.1
Edit 3D buildings created in the city-generation tool procedurally in Maya via new integration plugin Serlio: free for non-commercial use.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
e-on software ships Vue R3 and PlantFactory R3
Vue gets new orthographic camera and support for V-Ray Next; both apps get better Substance support.
Monday, August 19th, 2019
Otoy launches new free Prime usage tier for OctaneRender
New free editions of the renderer for Unreal Engine and Blender 2.80 available as early public previews.
Tuesday, July 30th, 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
e-on software shakes up Vue and PlantFactory
Newly updated digital nature tools available as rental-only product bundles, not individual purchases.
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.1
Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support.
Friday, April 6th, 2018