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rendering

Handy new utility for editing V-Ray .vrscene files lets users adjust render settings on the fly or split jobs into batches.

Friday, May 25th, 2018

Open-source renderer gets faster hybrid and spectral rendering, support for resumable renders.

Monday, May 14th, 2018

Architectural renderer gets adaptive anti-aliasing and improved light sampling, plus new Twinlinker app for creating online virtual tours.

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018

Now available: big update to the real-time toolkit adds scores of new features for rendering, texture baking and the Marmoset Viewer.

Thursday, April 26th, 2018

Fascinating demo shows quest to remove "bullshit parameters" from the renderer, free with the upcoming Katana 3.0.

Wednesday, April 11th, 2018

Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support.

Friday, April 6th, 2018

3ds Max production renderer adds support for Nvidia's AI-based OptiX denoising system, hybrid CPU/GPU texture baking, adaptive sampling.

Friday, March 30th, 2018

Modo edition of the renderer gets hybrid CPU/GPU rendering, V-Ray Fur and support for Cryptomatte.

Saturday, March 24th, 2018

Watch Epic's eye-popping real-time demos, then discover the facial capture tech that powers them.

Thursday, March 22nd, 2018

Updated: neat Star Wars short shows the real-time effects possible in UE4 with this new extension to DX12.

Wednesday, March 21st, 2018

Next-but-one releases to add light linking, trace sets, new RNDR framework with support for iOS and integrated graphics.

Tuesday, March 20th, 2018

New video also shows other features due in the renderer, like support for USD and MaterialX.

Thursday, March 8th, 2018

Open-source 3D software gets over 200 bugfixes, plus 10% speed boost to Cycles renders when using CUDA GPUs in Windows.

Friday, March 2nd, 2018