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SketchUp edition of the renderer gets support for 3D Gaussian Splats, luminaires for lighting, and new material override options.

Thursday, December 12th, 2024

Now shipping: see videos of the new GPU rendering features and the new hair and toon shaders.

Friday, October 26th, 2018

Open beta of next big update to renderer gets new layered texture node, in-viewport OptiX denoising.

Monday, September 17th, 2018

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including nifty new Select Details options in the AI-based Object Selection tool.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Update to the renderer adds over 3,100 Chaos Scans materials to the Cosmos library, and improves DoF and volumetric effects.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Get JustB Studios' 1850s Post Office Environment pack of 3D assets for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace. For commercial use.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

Argentum Studio's in-house tool simplifies the process of lighting and rendering hair and fur in Unreal Engine 5.5. Free for a month.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025