Chaos have added cutting-edge features to V-Ray for Modo. Their twin-engine rendering architecture is built to take full advantage of the latest CPU and GPU hardware. Users can now render anything and everything, from quick design models to your most detailed 3D scenes. This update is free for existing V-Ray 3.x for Modo customers and all new workstations … Read more
Pdplayer 1.0.7.32 is now available with optimized 4K playback and improved OpenEXR support. This is a free update for current customers. New features and improvements include: Metadata Viewer – Displays data such as camera FOV, aperture and focal length for DPX and EXR files. (Hotkey M) Multipart EXR – Faster to load and display than multichannel EXRs, … Read more
The formZ 8.5.7 update is now available for Pro, Jr, free and student editions. Select Check for Update from the form•Z Help Menu to automatically update your v8.5 software. Highlights of improvements in this version include: Modeling: Sub-d Objects now support face colours. Copy/paste now perseveres layer groups. DAE import improved. Opening and saving files … Read more
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
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
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
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
The latest update for V-Ray for 3DS Max is now available. Update now. Modified Features VRayDenoiser Prevent the Denoiser Render Elements from saving as separate files VRayOSLMtl / VRayOSLTex Speed up texture sampling vdenoise.exe Add “-abortOnOpenCLError” to stop hardware accelerated denoising on errors Add “-frames” option that allows to specify the frames to process Add … Read more