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PBR material

Promising hard-surface-focused add-on implements Substance 3D Painter-style layer-based texture painting inside Blender.

Friday, August 15th, 2025

Check out the new AI Material Generator and image enhancer in this major update to Chaos's production renderer.

Thursday, August 7th, 2025

New real-time design exploration and visualization plugin lets users generate ray traced 4K renders inside the 3D modeling software.

Thursday, May 1st, 2025

GPU renderer and real-time visualization tool gets new terrain sculpting and phasing animation systems, plus 3D Gaussian Splatting.

Wednesday, October 30th, 2024

Set of AI tools for games artists and developers gets new generative AI model for its text-to-PBR-material system. Find more details here.

Wednesday, March 6th, 2024

Check out the tech in development at Chaos Next, the firm's new 'AI lab', ranging from PBR material generation to 3D set extension.

Wednesday, February 28th, 2024

Check out the new features in the digital painting and CG art tool, like the updated CPU/GPU renderer.

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024

Sizeable update to the GPU ray tracing renderer adds real-time caustics, and cutaway rendering.

Thursday, August 17th, 2023

Hotly tipped open-source material authoring and 3D texture painting app gets its milestone 1.0 release. Check out all of its new features.

Sunday, July 24th, 2022

Check out the new features in the real-time tool for exploring V-Ray scenes, like the new cloud system.

Monday, July 18th, 2022

Terrain generator for games and real-time work gets new system for creating roads, deforming the land surface automatically to match.

Monday, March 14th, 2022

Digital nature tools get new Omniverse connector, support for Redshift and RenderMan materials.

Friday, December 10th, 2021

iPad sketching app now lets users import and paint directly onto 3D models in OBJ or USDZ format.

Monday, November 1st, 2021