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texture baking

Now shipping: new edition of V-Ray lets VFX studios use Houdini for look dev as well as final rendering.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

Texture painting software gets support for RTX-accelerated texture baking on Nvidia GPUs.

Friday, July 26th, 2019

Intriguing update to the material authoring tool lets users 'go beyond PBR texture maps' when creating Substances.

Friday, May 10th, 2019

Real-time rendering toolkit gets new Python callbacks to help with writing live link plugins, better stability when baking textures.

Wednesday, April 10th, 2019

3ds Max renderer adds Intel's CPU-based Open Image Denoise system, plus support for Nvidia RTX cards in the OptiX GPU denoiser.

Wednesday, April 10th, 2019

Update to the renderer adds a Modo-style Round Corners shader and normal map blending; further speeds up adaptive subdivision.

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018

Real-time rendering toolkit gets new texture baking features, better antialiasing of texture maps, plus two new microsurface shaders.

Saturday, September 29th, 2018

Video: Intriguing 'augmented digital material creation' tool will blend hand painting, parametric editing and AI workflows.

Wednesday, August 22nd, 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

Big VFX-focused update to the material authoring tool adds UDIM workflow, 30% speed boost when opening large assets.

Monday, March 12th, 2018

Big update adds new tools for recreating real-world materials via photogrammetry, 32-bit workflow, 8K texture baking.

Wednesday, February 15th, 2017

Now shipping: Big update to the rendering toolkit adds animation support, real-time GI, texture baking, and Unity and UE4 export.

Friday, November 25th, 2016

Neat new material layering system lets users visualise complex composite materials accurately within the software.

Friday, July 22nd, 2016