Solid Angle releases Arnold 4.2.9
Core renderer gets support for refractive dispersion, better volumetrics. Maya plugin gets initial support for Bifrost.
Monday, September 21st, 2015
performance
LuxRender 1.5 ships
Now officially shipping: Open-source renderer gets major speed boosts, support for AOVs. New 3ds Max exporter to come.
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 2.0
Pro photogrammetry app gets improved mesh and point cloud generation, new mesh editing tools.
Thursday, August 27th, 2015
Substance Painter 1.5 and Substance Designer 5.2 ship
Both Allegorithmic texturing tools get export presets for V-Ray, Arnold, Redshift and Corona; new viewport display options.
Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
Planetside Software releases Terragen 3.3
Landscape generator gets 'per object raytracing' system, new animation options, HD previews.
Monday, August 17th, 2015
Peregrine Labs releases Yeti 2.0
Maya fur plugin gets speed boost, better dynamics, new sculpting tools. Price down to CAD $699, too.
Monday, August 3rd, 2015
Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.1 for Maya
Sizeable update adds two new VR camera types, extends V-Ray RT GPU, boosts performance all round.
Friday, July 31st, 2015
Sneak peek: see the new features in RealFlow 2015
Updated: Watch videos of all the key features, including the new GPU-accelerated Dyverso solvers and OpenVDB meshing.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2015
Brekel Pro PointCloud 2 and Body 2 apps released
Updated: Kinect-based mocap tools now support Oculus Rift. New free script for viewing the point cloud data in Unity, too.
Friday, July 17th, 2015
E-on software releases LumenRT 2015.5 line-up
Update to real-time visualisation tools boosts playback performance, adds integration with PlantFactory.
Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
AMD unveils FirePro S9170
New high-end server GPU boasts a whopping 32GB of RAM and 5.2 Tflops peak compute performance.
Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Group test: Nvidia professional GPUs 2015
Jason Lewis puts three of Nvidia's top-of-the-range Quadro cards through a battery of real-world tests.
Monday, July 6th, 2015
E-on ships Vue Infinite 2015 and Vue xStream 2015
Updated: Features include a new NPR renderer, GoZ support. Free Personal Learning Edition out now.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2015