VUE 2016 Leaks #1: Interactive Path Tracer

Hybrid GPU/CPU Interactive Path Tracer GPU rendering comes to VUE with the new Path Tracer renderer. This renderer naturally and automatically simulates real-life lighting, and automatically calculates many effects that have to be specifically set with other methods, such as soft shadows, depth of field, caustics, ambient occlusion, and indirect lighting. Path tracing in VUE … Read more

Orca3D Tutorial: Creating a Planar Sheerline

A planar sheerline will never show any inflections, no matter the view. It will always be completely concave, convex, or flat, no matter your vantage point. Many believe that this is the mark of an “elegant” sheerline. In this video, you will see how to place the control points along the sheer in a plane, … Read more

V-Ray for Maya Update Available

The new 3.40.03 build for V-Ray  for Maya is now available to download here. Bug fixes include: V-Ray Fixed image sequences with an index out of the sequence range not rendering Fixed crashes on old Maya versions on virtual machines and old GPUs Fixed wrong result with material environment override Fixed set driven keys not … Read more

KeyShot 6.2 Now Available

With new features like Interior Lighting, the new Material Graph and Path Animation, KeyShot 6 brings speed and workflow enhancements to the visual creation process. The KeyShot 6.2 release is focused on stability and improvements, with updated importers, more software support, and improvements to network rendering, animation and workflow. KeyShot 6.2 is a free update and is recommended … Read more