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New real-time engine replaces Redshift RT, and was developed in parallel with the new Vectorworks edition of the renderer.

Thursday, March 19th, 2026

See the latest features in the terrain generation tool for games and VFX, including AgX tonemapping and new Pattern distributions.

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026

Check out the changes to the Maya edition of the renderer, including a new displacement material, and a viewport live link to Vantage.

Saturday, December 13th, 2025

Check out nxExplosiaFX, the new smoke and fire simulation tool in Insydium's GPU-based particle effects add-on for Cinema 4D.

Friday, October 17th, 2025

Check out the changes in the latest version of the GPU production renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya.

Thursday, July 17th, 2025

Check out the new features in the GPU renderer, including support for rendering USDZ files, and support for point clouds in Blender.

Thursday, June 19th, 2025

Check out the new features in the 3D software, including viewport path tracing, a new Toon Filter, and new rigging and animation tools.

Friday, April 18th, 2025

GPU renderer and real-time visualization tool gets new terrain sculpting and phasing animation systems, plus 3D Gaussian Splatting.

Wednesday, October 30th, 2024

Check out the new features in the GPU renderer, including the new AI Enhancer, Sunlight Caustics and better translucent materials.

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024

Shot layout and rendering app gets Firefly AI-based Generative Background system and improved real-time rendering.

Friday, May 24th, 2024

Subscriber-only release updates Cinema 4D's cloth simulation tools and node UI, and adds new HDRIs, textures and Redshift materials.

Thursday, June 30th, 2022

Compositing and editorial tools get support for NDI, OpenTimelineIO and new machine learning features.

Thursday, April 14th, 2022

New features in the compositing app include a live link to Unreal Engine and new machine learning options in NukeX.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021