AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.1
Free GPU renderer gets support for new bevel shader, better viewport rendering, support for light linking.
Monday, March 13th, 2023
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Physically Based lists PBR values for real-world materials
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Monday, August 8th, 2022
U-Render releases U-Render 2022.4 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer gets new non-photorealistic rendering toolset, SSGI and multi-materials.
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
cebas ships thinkingParticles 7 for 3ds Max
Powerful multiphysics plugin gets new MPM solvers to simulate granular fluids like sand and snow.
Thursday, September 16th, 2021
U-Render releases U-Render 2021.9 for Cinema 4D
Physically based 'really real-time' renderer gets new Sheen effect to mimic the look of real-world fabrics.
Thursday, September 16th, 2021
Anastasiy ships MixColors 4.0
Physically accurate Photoshop colour-mixing plugin now extracts entire colour palettes from images, and names swatches automatically.
Thursday, September 2nd, 2021
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.28
Minor update to the free game engine adds support for the latest Twitch API, while users wait for the release of the new Atom renderer.
Friday, May 21st, 2021
LuxCoreRender 2.5 and BlendLuxCore 2.5 ship
Wide-ranging update to the open-source renderer and its Blender plugin adds RTX acceleration, new stereo cameras.
Monday, April 12th, 2021
Sneak peek: Lumberyard's new Atom renderer
Amazon's free game engine to get new 'high-performance physically based renderer' with an interesting modular design.
Friday, April 9th, 2021
Next Limit ships Maxwell 5.2
Physically based renderer gets GPU support for Multilight, including Nvidia's Ampere GPUs. Now loads Substance .sbsar files.
Friday, March 12th, 2021
Uppercut releases U-Render 2020.9 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer gets new color correction filter. Now fully integrated into the C4D viewport.
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.10
GPU-accelerated spectral renderer finalRender now bundled with the 3ds Max particle plugin for free.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
AMD releases new beta of Radeon ProRender 2.0
Open-source physically based GPU render engine gets support for Light Path Expressions, MaterialX.
Monday, August 24th, 2020