April 16, 2020
New PLE edition of the renderer can be used for free indefinitely, unlike the existing trial version. Read More »
November 27, 2019
Update adds RTX-accelerated GPU ray tracing, new animation-friendly light cache and deep EXR output. Read More »
November 20, 2019
Rendering on current Nvidia GPUs now 'about 40%' faster, thanks to new support for RTX acceleration. Read More »
June 5, 2019
Renderer gets new toon shader, debug shading, memory tracking tools, and updates to V-Ray GPU. Read More »
May 13, 2019
Renderer gets V-Ray GPU updates, Cryptomatte support for VRayProxy, and new memory tracking system. Read More »
November 30, 2018
Update improves IPR performance in the 3ds Max renderer, and adds support for GPU bucket rendering. Read More »
October 26, 2018
Now shipping: see videos of the new GPU rendering features and the new hair and toon shaders. Read More »
September 17, 2018
Open beta of next big update to renderer gets new layered texture node, in-viewport OptiX denoising. Read More »
August 11, 2018
Update improves the IPR and GPU rendering architectures, extends the new toon and hair shaders. Read More »
May 4, 2018
Video: see the new toon shader coming up in the next major update to the Maya edition of the renderer. Read More »
