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rendering

Latest update to the renderer adds the option to pause offline renders, better support for Alembic files, and network rendering on Linux.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2019

Big update reworks the layout and rendering tool's lighting pipeline and adds USD support. See the key features and pricing changes here.

Friday, February 1st, 2019

Fastest major update in LightWave history adds multi-user bridge to UE4, new digital sculpting tools, nodal editing of OpenVDB volumes.

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

Open-source physically based renderer gets new denoiser, plus option to pause and resume renders via the Blender plugin.

Monday, January 21st, 2019

Popular renderer now officially available for C4D as well as Max, after four years in development.

Tuesday, January 8th, 2019

New optimised version of Cycles renders up to 2.4x faster than standard Blender on CUDA GPUs.

Monday, January 7th, 2019

New open Python API will let developers create custom tools for the real-time animation software.

Sunday, January 6th, 2019

One of the oldest 3D applications gets updated for current Hi-DPI displays and multicore CPUs, and gains a photon mapping system.

Friday, December 28th, 2018

New real-time visualisation platform based on Nvidia's RTX tech renders V-Ray scenes and streams the result to standard web browsers.

Thursday, December 20th, 2018

Hotly tipped real-time Cinema 4D PBR render engine gets first paid release. Version 1.0 due next year.

Monday, December 17th, 2018

Update to 3ds Max renderer improves path tracing speed, adds new 'biasHybrid' render mode, HDRI denoising, random walk SSS.

Thursday, December 6th, 2018

Update to real-time visualisation tool integrates BIMobject's online library of free 3D furniture models.

Wednesday, December 5th, 2018

Videos: See five things to love about the open-source 3D app, from the new UI to rendering and 2D animation tools.

Friday, November 30th, 2018