Otoy releases OctaneRender 2018.1
GPU renderer gets new procedural systems Vectron and Spectron; Cryptomatte and NVLink support.
Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
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Otoy previews OctaneRender 2018.1's Vectron and Spectron
Next update to GPU renderer to add new procedural 'uberprimitive' and volumetric lighting system.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
Chaos Group on V-Ray Next and the future of rendering
V-Ray Next is a landmark update. Chaos Group reveals the thinking behind it, and the forces shaping rendering tools.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
Otoy reveals its roadmap for OctaneRender 2018 and 2019
Next-but-one releases to add light linking, trace sets, new RNDR framework with support for iOS and integrated graphics.
Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
Nvidia discontinues Mental Ray
Sales of the standalone renderer and the 3ds Max and Maya plugins stop today. Work on Iray continues via Nvidia's development partners.
Monday, November 20th, 2017
Unity Technologies unveils Unity 2017 product roadmap
Features to include new cinematics toolsets, a scriptable rendering pipeline, and a new C# job system.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
Unity Technologies releases Unity 5.6 and EditorVR in beta
Sizeable update to the game engine now available in beta, along with its new VR editing toolset.
Thursday, December 15th, 2016
Unity Technologies reveals 2017 Unity product roadmap
See all the new features due in Unity 5.6 and beyond - including a free integration of OctaneRender.
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016
Tech talk: Quixel founder Teddy Bergsman
Quixel's CEO tells us how he ate gruel for months to develop killer texturing tools - only to keep giving them away free.
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015
The GIMP team announces GIMP 2.9
Big update to open-source image-editing tool adds support for 32-bits-per-channel colour, OpenEXR files.
Monday, November 30th, 2015
NewTek announces new LightWave pricing
Cost of new licences up, upgrades from the current version down. Also: new volumetric and PBR engine due in LightWave 2016.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
Features planned for VPaint 1.5
See a list of new features planned for version 1.5 of the open-source app that creates vector animations that mimic 3D forms.
Saturday, August 8th, 2015
See the proposed dev schedule for Blender 2.8
Mainly bugfixes for a year, then a major update in 2016 - which may not be 100% backwards-compatible.
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015