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Chaos releases Vantage 3.0 in beta

Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer adds initial support for USD, MaterialX, 3D Gaussian Splatting, and volumes.

Friday, September 5th, 2025

Autodesk releases Arnold 7.4.3

Check out the new features in the renderer, including an Inference imager for applying machine learning models to stylize output.

Saturday, July 26th, 2025

Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 15.0

Big update to the material-authoring software adds new 3D renderer and the option to import entire USD scenes to edit materials in context.

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2026.1

Check out the new features in the 3D modeling and visualization software, including the new Attribute Transfer modifier..

Thursday, June 5th, 2025