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Octane X 2026.3

Check out the new features in the GPU renderer, including updates to virtual textures, trace sets, and the Neural Radiance Cache.

Friday, April 24th, 2026

Check out the new features in the GPU renderer, including updates to virtual textures, trace sets, and the Neural Radiance Cache.

Friday, April 24th, 2026

Check out the promising new GPU-accelerated sparse liquid solver from Theory Accelerated, creator of the popular Axiom fluid solver.

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026

The V-Ray GPU render engine now supports AMD cards again via AMD's HIP framework - and they're actually faster than NVIDIA in some scenes.

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026

Check out the new features in the 3ds Max renderer, including native parallax interiors, quick caustics, and relighting 3D Gaussian Splats.

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026

Updated: Sparseal's promising texture painting app gets its first official Windows release - and an experimental free build for macOS.

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026

Compositing, finishing and effects software gets a new Annotations system and two new AI models for generating depth maps from clips.

Tuesday, April 21st, 2026