Eevee Next finally arrives in Blender
Discover how to port old scenes to use the long-awaited overhaul of the Eevee renderer ahead of its release in Blender 4.2 next week.
Friday, July 12th, 2024
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Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 3.0.2
Shot layout and rendering app gets Firefly AI-based Generative Background system and improved real-time rendering.
Friday, May 24th, 2024
Download all of Graswald's 3D plants for free
Get over 100 species of grasses and flowers in FBX or Alembic format, or for use with the Gscatter Blender plugin. For commercial use.
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 9.1
3D texture painting and material authoring software gets SVG import, new drag and drop workflows, and better handling of translucency.
Tuesday, November 7th, 2023
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max Update 1
Check out the new features in this wide-ranging update to the renderer, including USD export.
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D Update 2
Cinema 4D renderer gets new texture randomisation options, light instancing, native support for Apple M1 processors.
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Maya Update 2
Renderer gets new decal system, support for USD lights, access to the Chaos Cosmos asset library.
Friday, November 12th, 2021
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for SketchUp Update 2
SketchUp renderer gets new scattering and decal systems, big update to real-time render mode V-Ray Vision.
Friday, November 5th, 2021
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 2
3ds Max renderer gets new texture projection system V-Ray Decal and light instancing with VRayInstancer.
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 1
Update adds support for masks in the V-Ray Frame Buffer, better caustics and translucent materials.
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
Sneak peek: Chaos Group's R&D work on V-Ray's VRayMtl
Video: see the new translucency in the standard V-Ray material, expected in V-Ray 5 Update 1.
Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
Uppercut releases U-Render 2020.5 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer for Cinema 4D gets support for subsurface scattering, translucency.
Thursday, June 4th, 2020
Download Ten24's free hi-res 3D scan of a male human head
Get it from 3D Scan Store in ZTL, OBJ or FBX format, with up to 16,384 x 16,384-pixel PBR textures.
Thursday, June 27th, 2019