Vulkan now does ray tracing
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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Godot Engine wins $250,000 Epic MegaGrant
Strings-free dev grant will be used to improve the open-source game engine's rendering capabilities.
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
Godot 3.2 ships
Leading open-source game engine gets revamped shader editor, glTF 2.0 and FBX import, and a new pseudo-3D system for 2D games.
Thursday, January 30th, 2020
Radeon ProRender for Blender gets 'full spectrum rendering'
Updated: Free GPU renderer's new hybrid rasterised/ray traced mode now works on AMD Polaris GPUs on Windows.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2020.1 in public preview
GPU renderer gets updated RTX acceleration, new spectral sky and daylight system, ACES support.
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 2.8 for Maya
Free GPU renderer gets new 'full spectrum rendering' mode for hybrid rasterised/ray traced viewport previews.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
AMD to pay $120,000/year towards Blender development
CPU and GPU firm's sponsorship will help to fund Vulkan support within the open-source 3D tool.
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
Get Quake II with real-time ray tracing and PBR materials
Now available to download: Nvidia updates the 1997 shooter for real-time path tracing on Turing GPUs.
Monday, June 10th, 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
Watch Neon Noir, Crytek's new real-time ray tracing demo
The tech runs on current mid-range AMD and Nvidia GPUs, and is due in the CryEngine roadmap this year.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Godot team ships Godot 3.1
Open-source game engine gets new Boolean modelling system, soft body dynamics, plus revamped 2D and 3D animation toolsets.
Thursday, March 14th, 2019
Check out the new features in Unreal Engine 4.21
Highlights include updates to the Niagara FX and animation tools, and a new 'Pixel Streaming' system.
Thursday, November 8th, 2018
Unity Technologies releases Unity 2018.2
Lots of features, including a new physical camera model, but the GPU lightmapper hasn't made it.
Thursday, July 12th, 2018