Chaos have just released an update to V-Ray for MODO. This free download includes support for MODO 10.2, new features and improvements. Full information below: New Features General Support for MODO 10.2v1 Added a command that consolidates all V-Ray assets (like .vrmesh files) into the same directory as the .lxo scene. The command can be found … Read more
It’s here. SketchUp Pro 2017 has been released and it brings with it some tangible boosts to the underlying engine. Turbocharged Pipeline 2.0 In this SketchUp release, Trimble have made major improvements to the graphics pipeline, creating performance improvements “everywhere you see a .SKP”. This means the underlying graphics engine behind SketchUp, 3D Warehouse, … Read more
The V-Ray 3 for Rhino public beta is now open. V-Ray 3 for Rhino is fast, with a clean new interface to speed up workflow. We’ve added some exciting new features and invited our customers to try them before anyone else. Here’s a glimpse of just some of the new features recently added to the … Read more
The V-Ray 3 for SketchUp public beta is now open. V-Ray 3 for SketchUp is fast, with a clean new interface to speed up workflow. We’ve added some exciting new features and invited our customers to try them before anyone else. Here’s a glimpse of just some of the new features recently added to the … Read more
Cinema4D R18 is here! Check out the showcasing video ‘Versus’ below, along with the making of it. Cinema 4D R18 Full Feature List ANIMATION New Quaternions workflow There is now a Quaternions group in the Coordinates tab The key attributes for Quaternion Rotations have a new option for Quaternion Interpolation types. The user can choose … Read more
The following video shows one of the main features of the upcoming VisualARQ 2.0 version: the new Furniture object. This new object is meant to be used for all the furniture elements in the project design. The video shows two ways to create new Furniture object styles: Using 3D and 2D blocks for the furniture … Read more
1- In PlantFactory 2016 PlantFactory 2015 introduced the concept of Presets. PlantFactory 2016 now introduces the concept of Preset Variations. Preset Variations allow you to immediately include subtle differences to your plant (change the number of buds on a blooming flower, or its petal colours for instance). This new feature allows you to easily add … Read more
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
If you’d like to get a full version of Cinema 4D R18 for less, we recommend buying or upgrading to a full version of R17 between now and end of July. Not only will you get R17 now and R18 automatically in September, you’ll also beat the approx. 9% price rise that applies to MAXON products from … Read more
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