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ray tracing

Real-time terrain generation software gets complete new rivers system, plus Polygon Layers for raising or flattening terrain.

Sunday, April 21st, 2024

Upcoming virtual production toolset will let studios use existing V-Ray assets on LED walls with full ray tracing "without any preprocessing".

Friday, April 5th, 2024

Real-time visualization software gets improvements to GPU ray tracing, new V-Ray Scene Exporter and support for Intel Arc GPUs.

Thursday, March 28th, 2024

Check out the new features in the real-time visualization tool, including better, faster ray traced rendering, with support for temporal denoising.

Wednesday, March 20th, 2024

Updated: neat plugin formerly known as MetaShoot creates portfolio renders and visualizations in a few clicks. See what's new in Atlux λ 1.1.

Thursday, March 14th, 2024

Check out the latest features in the ray tracing renderer, including a new image sharpening effect and speed boosts in GPU mode.

Wednesday, March 13th, 2024

Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Croods: A New Age.

Sunday, March 3rd, 2024

New 4GB and 6GB cards round out the low end of the Ada Generation GPUs for mobile workstations. Check out their other key specs.

Monday, February 26th, 2024

New small-form-factor 16GB card is the cheapest Ada Generation pro GPU. See how it performs in CG apps like 3ds Max, Maya and V-Ray.

Tuesday, February 13th, 2024

Multi-billion-primitive scene was rendered on a Radeon Pro W7900 via a fork of the pbrt renderer using AMD's HIP RT 2.2 ray tracing library.

Tuesday, February 6th, 2024

Check out the new features in the hair and fur plugin, including a point-and-click groom-creation system, and the option to 'box' operators.

Friday, December 15th, 2023

Check out the new AI features in the GPU-based ray tracing renderer, including automatic atmosphere and texture generation.

Friday, December 15th, 2023

New version of the GPU renderer adds long-awaited option to mix Macs with Windows and Linux machines in render networks.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023