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rendering

New licence gives students and educators nine versions of V-Ray plus Phoenix FD for $149/year.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

Create, light and render large landscapes suitable for VFX work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.

Wednesday, April 1st, 2020

Production renderer and look dev suite gets OpenColorIO support, USD export, Open Image Denoise.

Friday, March 27th, 2020

Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

New free edition of the 3ds Max production renderer lacks hybrid CPU/GPU and network rendering, but can be used commercially.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

Open-source renderer gets support for glTF export, triplanar mapping. Blender plugin supports some Cycles light settings.

Monday, March 23rd, 2020

First Modo 14 Series release adds Ghost and X-ray display modes, plus the option to draw annotations on the viewport in asset reviews.

Friday, March 20th, 2020

Maya gets new integration plugin for Rokoko's mocap library, better Bifrost performance, support for painting 16K textures.

Thursday, March 19th, 2020

The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.

Thursday, March 19th, 2020

Real-time visualisation software gets an improved render preview, support for displacement maps, new live link plugin for AutoCAD.

Wednesday, March 18th, 2020

Big update gives the visualisation tool new rendering features, better 3D characters and plants - and an aggressive new price.

Wednesday, March 11th, 2020

Create interiors for VFX work with Digital Domain lighting lead Adrien Vallecilla's new Gnomon tutorial.

Saturday, February 22nd, 2020

Update adds hardware-accelerated rendering on Nvidia RTX GPUs, and improves material editing workflow.

Wednesday, February 19th, 2020