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OpenGL viewport

Open-source version of Material Definition Language to include the MDL Distiller and GLSL backend for real-time and viewport rendering.

Friday, August 12th, 2022

3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.

Friday, April 24th, 2020

Maya crowd animation tool gets layered caches for rigid body dynamics, new 'self clone' option to increase density in flocking sims.

Friday, August 24th, 2018

Major update adds neat MoGraph options, object tracking, real-time knife tools, and Substance support.

Thursday, September 1st, 2016

Check out the changes to the open-source game engine, including updates to multi-GPU rendering, cinematics editing and XR workflow.

Friday, June 20th, 2025

Check out the new features in the GPU renderer, including support for rendering USDZ files, and support for point clouds in Blender.

Thursday, June 19th, 2025

3D animation and motion graphics app gets liquid simulation toolset, plus support for UDIMs and texel density. See all the new features.

Thursday, June 19th, 2025

Check out the new features in the desktop 3D scanning tool and the Android and iOS photogrammetry apps, all of them free to indie artists.

Wednesday, June 18th, 2025

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including a new Dynamic Text system, and support for AVIF and JPEG XL.

Tuesday, June 17th, 2025

See all the changes to the popular 3D modeling toolkit for Houdini, including a new shading preset system, and a new hotkey layout.

Tuesday, June 17th, 2025