CG Channel

network rendering

Physically based renderer adds spotlights, OpenVDB and UDIM support, smart selective sampling.

Thursday, January 29th, 2015

VFX-friendly release to add support for OpenVDB, Mari's UDIM textures, improved skin rendering system.

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014

Updated: Versatile network render controller gets new render wizards, supports OS X as well as Windows.

Wednesday, November 26th, 2014

No optical flow or stereo tools, and no network rendering, but still a pretty darn powerful 3D compositor.

Monday, November 10th, 2014

Now shipping: latest update adds camera tracker, layered reflections and PolyPen modelling/retopo tool.

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014

Update to GPU-based renderer adds displacement, per-object motion blur; speeds up hair renders 20 times.

Tuesday, June 10th, 2014

Updated: GPU-accelerated renderer gets physically based GI, multi-GPU support, new 3ds Max edition.

Sunday, September 15th, 2013

Updated and now shipping: New release features better GI, AO and network rendering - and even architectural grass.

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013

New 18-month educational licence almost identical to the $3,695 Studio edition, minus network rendering.

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Environment-generation apps get option to stack EcoSystems, new Python and network render tools.

Friday, April 27th, 2012

Update to the real-time rendering tool to add new metallic paint material, interactive HDR editing.

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012