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mental ray for Maya

Sales of the standalone renderer and the 3ds Max and Maya plugins stop today. Work on Iray continues via Nvidia's development partners.

Monday, November 20th, 2017

First version of the renderer compatible with Maya 2018, and with Nvidia's upcoming Volta GPUs.

Wednesday, September 27th, 2017

For single-frame and viewport renders, at least. Things get interesting with network and sequence rendering.

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

Neat free Geometry Nodes setup lets you create 3D animation using 2D workflows in Blender's Grease Pencil toolset.

Friday, December 13th, 2024

Next major update to Nuke introduces native multishot compositing, and improves roto performance and BlinkScript editing.

Thursday, December 12th, 2024

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

Thursday, December 12th, 2024

Updated: Long-awaited new Blender integration for V-Ray based on the V-Ray 7 core is now available in free public beta.

Wednesday, December 11th, 2024

Check out the new features in the lighting and look development software, including support for USD export and USD roundtripping.

Tuesday, December 10th, 2024

Now available: 3D texture painting software gets new 2D painting mode for editing source images or creating custom decals.

Monday, December 9th, 2024