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V-Ray

New PLE edition of the renderer can be used for free indefinitely, unlike the existing trial version.

Thursday, April 16th, 2020

Maya crowd simulation tool gets new USD procedural plugin, plus morphology variation for crowd characters, skinned animated fur.

Friday, April 3rd, 2020

New licence gives students and educators nine versions of V-Ray plus Phoenix FD for $149/year.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

TurboSquid's cloud-based, AI-driven service automatically tags and renders preview images for studios' assets.

Thursday, March 26th, 2020

Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

New free edition of the 3ds Max production renderer lacks hybrid CPU/GPU and network rendering, but can be used commercially.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.

Thursday, March 19th, 2020

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Wednesday, March 18th, 2020

3ds Max renderer gets support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia RTX graphics cards, plus GPU memory sharing via NVLink.

Saturday, March 14th, 2020

Material authoring tool gets new export window with presets for UE4, Unity and common renderers.

Friday, March 13th, 2020

Scattering plugin gets improved object painting and distribution, plus option to scatter V-Ray Lights.

Thursday, February 27th, 2020

Update adds hardware-accelerated rendering on Nvidia RTX GPUs, and improves material editing workflow.

Wednesday, February 19th, 2020

Neat app auto-detects common 3ds Max plugins and performs 'sanity checks' to fix common V-Ray and Corona errors.

Tuesday, February 18th, 2020