OSL

SideFX unveils Solaris

Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer.

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.4

Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Pixar ships RenderMan 22.5

Update adds support for live displacement editing, SIMD acceleration for OSL. Houdini integration "completely rewritten".

Thursday, May 9th, 2019

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2020

New update adds OSL-based toon shading and built-in greenscreen keying, and makes viewport animation playback up to 2x faster.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2019.3

Update adds interactive rendering in the ActiveShade viewport, plus better OSL and Alembic support.

Wednesday, December 12th, 2018

Otoy ships OctaneRender 4.0

Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.

Thursday, November 22nd, 2018

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2019.2

Release adds new Fluid Loader object for tweaking and rendering cached sims, further updates to Alembic and OSL.

Thursday, September 20th, 2018