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ray tracing

Real-time VFX and motion graphics tools get new GPU-agnostic hybrid ray tracing system, plus native support for Substance materials.

Friday, June 7th, 2019

New open-source tech to support interactive previews of USD files, and speed up volumetric renders.

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

Intriguing update to the material authoring tool lets users 'go beyond PBR texture maps' when creating Substances.

Friday, May 10th, 2019

Luxion ships KeyVR

New 'one-click' VR solution lets 3D artists and designers view KeyShot scenes in virtual reality, complete with simple built-in interactions.

Thursday, May 9th, 2019

It's limited to the 3D viewport, not final output, but it can result in a render speed boost of 'up to 100x'.

Monday, April 29th, 2019

Real-time visualisation platform gets hardware-accelerated ray tracing, option to import simple 3ds Max animations.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

Unity 2019.1 ships

Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

Free driver update extends DXR support on selected Pascal and Volta GPUs, including the GeForce 1060 to 1080 Ti.

Friday, April 12th, 2019

Game engine gets support for real-time ray tracing on Nvidia GPUs, plus new animation and virtual production tools.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019

See the updated feature lists for versions 2019.1 and 2019.2 of the GPU renderer. First preview of 2019.1 available now.

Tuesday, March 26th, 2019

New plugin will let users stream animation from iClone to Unreal Engine for rendering in real time.

Tuesday, March 26th, 2019

Video: see the new destruction toolset due in Unreal Engine 4.23. Cloth, character physics to follow.

Thursday, March 21st, 2019

Support for Nvidia RTX hardware-accelerated ray tracing provides 'up to 7.5x' rendering speed boost.

Tuesday, March 19th, 2019