Download the free Corona renderer plugin for Blender
Updated: community-made BCorona plugin now supports Blender's displacement modifier.
Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
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Chaos Czech ships Corona 9
3ds Max and Cinema 4D renderer gets new procedural clouds and geometry replication systems. Subscription pricing overhauled.
Monday, October 17th, 2022
Open 3D Foundation releases Open 3D Engine 22.10
Open-source game engine's new terrain system handles '16km x 16km worlds at high framerates'.
Friday, October 14th, 2022
7 CG products you may have missed in September 2022
See what's new in AMD's pro GPU drivers, and in tools like Clarisse, Redshift and Omniverse Create.
Thursday, October 6th, 2022
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for SketchUp
SketchUp edition of the renderer now supports lights and materials from visualisation app Enscape.
Tuesday, October 4th, 2022
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D
Check out the new features in this major update to the renderer, several unique to the C4D edition.
Wednesday, September 28th, 2022
D5 Render is now free to students and teachers
New D5 Educational licence gives access to all features of the GPU renderer's paid D5 Pro edition.
Monday, September 26th, 2022
Chaos ships V-Ray 6 for Maya
Check out the new features in the Maya edition of the renderer, from Enmesh geometry replication to support for USD volume shaders.
Wednesday, August 31st, 2022
Physically Based lists PBR values for real-world materials
Need to recreate ketchup in your CG software? This free online database has the info you need.
Monday, August 8th, 2022
5 CG software updates you may have missed in July 2022
Check out the new features in tyFlow, Redshift, Enscape, Render Manager and ftrack Connect 2.0.
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
The ZBrush to KeyShot Bridge is now free
But KeyShot for ZBrush has been scrapped, raising the overall cost of using the renderer with the sculpting app.
Tuesday, July 19th, 2022
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max
Latest update makes the renderer subscription-only, but licences work across 8 other host applications.
Thursday, July 7th, 2022
Open 3D Foundation releases Open 3D Engine 22.05
Open-source game engine gets new animation synthesis system, 'remixable materials', updates to the Atom renderer.
Friday, May 13th, 2022