Chaos Czech releases Corona 11 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D
Check out the new features in the production renderer, including updates to Chaos Scatter, and support for Open Image Denoise 2.
Friday, December 8th, 2023
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Godot 4.2 ships: check out 5 key features for CG artists
Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source game engine, including updates to rendering, lightmaps and GPU particles.
Friday, December 1st, 2023
Intel releases Open Image Denoise 2
Popular open-source render denoiser now runs on AMD, Intel and Nvidia GPUs as well as CPUs.
Monday, July 3rd, 2023
Chaos releases Vantage 2.0
Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer aims to make the software 'as powerful for VFX as it is for architectural visualization'.
Thursday, June 29th, 2023
F3D 2.0 is a free, lightweight ray traced 3D model viewer
Neat open-source tool displays 3D models or point clouds in common formats on Windows, Linux, macOS.
Thursday, May 4th, 2023
Light Engine releases Light Tracer Render 2.6
Check out the new features in the physically based GPU renderer. You can use it for free in a web browser.
Friday, March 17th, 2023
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.13
Update makes Intel's OIDN denoiser and Cinema 4D's Brick and Tile shaders available to all of the renderer's host applications.
Thursday, February 9th, 2023
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.12
Sizeable update to the renderer adds support for Intel's OIDN for render denoising, plus multi-scattering in volumes like clouds.
Monday, December 12th, 2022
Open Image Denoise now runs on GPU as well as CPU
Open-source render denoiser used in Arnold. Blender and V-Ray now supports AMD, Intel & Nvidia GPUs.
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Unreal Update 1
Plugin for importing V-Ray scenes into Unreal Engine gets support for render relighting, skeletal meshes.
Monday, January 31st, 2022
LuxCoreRender 2.6 and BlendLuxCore 2.6 ship
Open-source renderer and its Blender plugin get support for OpenColorIO 2. Parsing of mesh lights '3x faster'.
Tuesday, January 4th, 2022
Intel becomes latest Blender Corporate Patron
Open-source 3D app now receives at least €120,000/year from all major CPU and GPU manufacturers.
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021
e-on software ships Vue and PlantFactory 2021.2
Digital nature tools get new Omniverse connector, support for Redshift and RenderMan materials.
Friday, December 10th, 2021