March 13, 2023
Free GPU renderer gets support for new bevel shader, better viewport rendering, support for light linking. Read More »
August 8, 2022
Need to recreate ketchup in your CG software? This free online database has the info you need. Read More »
April 26, 2022
'Really real-time' renderer gets new non-photorealistic rendering toolset, SSGI and multi-materials. Read More »
September 16, 2021
Powerful multiphysics plugin gets new MPM solvers to simulate granular fluids like sand and snow. Read More »
September 16, 2021
Physically based 'really real-time' renderer gets new Sheen effect to mimic the look of real-world fabrics. Read More »
September 2, 2021
Physically accurate Photoshop colour-mixing plugin now extracts entire colour palettes from images, and names swatches automatically. Read More »
May 21, 2021
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. Read More »
April 12, 2021
Wide-ranging update to the open-source renderer and its Blender plugin adds RTX acceleration, new stereo cameras. Read More »
April 9, 2021
Amazon's free game engine to get new 'high-performance physically based renderer' with an interesting modular design. Read More »
March 12, 2021
Physically based renderer gets GPU support for Multilight, including Nvidia's Ampere GPUs. Now loads Substance .sbsar files. Read More »
February 3, 2021
'Really real-time' renderer gets new color correction filter. Now fully integrated into the C4D viewport. Read More »
February 2, 2021
GPU-accelerated spectral renderer finalRender now bundled with the 3ds Max particle plugin for free. Read More »
August 24, 2020
Open-source physically based GPU render engine gets support for Light Path Expressions, MaterialX. Read More »
July 30, 2020
Open-source renderer gets faster GPU rendering, plus support for Blender's mantaflow smoke sims. Read More »
June 4, 2020
'Really real-time' renderer for Cinema 4D gets support for subsurface scattering, translucency. Read More »
May 18, 2020
SDK update to the free, hardware-agnostic GPU renderer promises faster rendering on CPU plus GPU. Read More »
April 18, 2020
Cinema 4D real-time render engine to get support for particle rendering and SSS - and a new Maya edition. Read More »
March 25, 2020
New free edition of the 3ds Max production renderer lacks hybrid CPU/GPU and network rendering, but can be used commercially. Read More »
March 23, 2020
Open-source renderer gets support for glTF export, triplanar mapping. Blender plugin supports some Cycles light settings. Read More »
November 12, 2019
All 10,000-plus Megascans assets to be made free to Unreal Engine users; Quixel Mixer and Bridge to be released free for everyone. Read More »
