New Nvidia driver brings true DXR ray tracing to older GPUs
Free driver update extends DXR support on selected Pascal and Volta GPUs, including the GeForce 1060 to 1080 Ti.
Friday, April 12th, 2019
Unity
Game engine and crowd tools devs win tech Emmy Awards
Creators of UE4 and Unity win 2019 Technology & Engineering awards, along with Massive, Golaem, Miarmy and Houdini.
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
IKinema releases Orion 2.0
Low-cost full-body mocap system based around HTC Vive hardware gets new 'system health tracker' to monitor data quality automatically.
Monday, April 8th, 2019
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.22
Game engine gets support for real-time ray tracing on Nvidia GPUs, plus new animation and virtual production tools.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 13.0
Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Rokoko's Motion Library is coming to Maya
New plugin to let users buy moves recorded by top Hollywood mocap studios within Maya for $3-6 each.
Friday, March 22nd, 2019
Otoy releases first preview build of OctaneRender 2019
Support for Nvidia RTX hardware-accelerated ray tracing provides 'up to 7.5x' rendering speed boost.
Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
The Heretic demo showcases realistic digital humans in Unity
New tech demo is a 'first attempt' at rendering photorealistic real-time characters in the game engine.
Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
Review: Nvidia Titan RTX
Nvidia's new Turing GPU offers the power of a workstation card at a lower price. Jason Lewis puts it through his real-world 3D tests.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Shotgun gets new integrations for After Effects, Jira, Unity
New After Effects and Jira Bridge plugins for the production tracking system due out at GDC next week.
Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
Review: AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200
Jason Lewis tests AMD's latest workstation graphics card against two of the competing Nvidia GPUs.
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Download 300 free measured materials for Unity
Get Unity Technologies' new free library of real-world automotive materials, from chrome to car paint.
Monday, February 11th, 2019
SpeedTree Cinema 8.2 ships
Tree-creation software gets new toolset for blending meshes captured via photogrammetry into its procedurally generated trees.
Thursday, January 17th, 2019