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Unreal Engine 5. 8 Preview rolls in
1+ day, 23+ min ago (593+ words) For those who don't know the tool: Unreal Engine is a realtime 3 D engine and editor used for games, VFX, and virtual production, with tools like Meta Human, Nanite, and procedural systems like PCG built in. Unreal Engine 5. 8 Preview is…...
Play Canvas updates Splat Transform to 2. 0
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (190+ words) For those who don't know the tool: Splat Transform is a CLI and library that converts and edits Gaussian splats for pipelines that end up in Super Splat or real-time runtimes. It ships as a package for Node. js and…...
RISE: Fallout Destroys LA, Politely
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (961+ words) Fallout Season 2 asked for more scale and less forgiveness. Rise delivered 244 shots across seven episodes, with the heaviest work landing early, and kept two sites moving as one crew. The playbook stayed familiar, but the demands went feral: closer cameras,…...
Chaos restores AMD GPUs in V-Ray
2+ week, 3+ day ago (635+ words) For those who don't know the tool: V-Ray runs inside Autodesk 3ds Max and Blender and many other DCCs, with V-Ray GPU as the hybrid GPU and CPU engine alongside CPU rendering. After a long stretch of one-vendor reality for GPU…...
Chaos V-Ray 7 Update 3 goes real time
4+ week, 3+ hour ago (904+ words) For those who don't know the tool: V-Ray runs inside Sketch Up, Rhino, and 3ds Max. Update 3 pulls real-time from Vantage, feeds assets from Cosmos, and pushes approvals through Cloud, with traffic extras via Anima. Chaos released V-Ray 7 Update 3 for Sketch…...
Octane Render 2026. 3 adds virtual texture netrender
2+ week, 1+ day ago (607+ words) For those who don't know the tool: Octane Render is a GPU renderer with DCC plugins like Blender, Cinema 4 D, and Houdini. It ships via Studio+ and has a mac OS stepsibling called Octane X. OTOY shipped Octane Render 2026. 3 with a…...
EIZO Color Edge CS3200 X adds 31. 5-inch 4 K
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (407+ words) For those who don't know the Lineup: The Color Edge CS Series sits below the Color Edge CG Series (Highend) in the Color Edge family, while Flex Scan covers general office displays. CS targets color critical work with external calibration…...
Hardcuts Launches Alpha Access for Fast Voxel-Based Hard-Surface Sculpting
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (228+ words) Hardcuts is a newly released standalone hard-surface sculpting tool built around voxel booleans, parametric shapes, arrays, and deformers. The alpha is free to try, with full save, import, and export unlocked via a $49 one-time purchase. Hardcuts Launches Alpha Access for…...
Chaos Vantage 3 update 2 adds Toon
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (523+ words) For those who don't know the tool: Vantage is a real-time ray tracing renderer that can sit beside Enscape and slot into USD and Material X heavy pipelines when you want fast lookdev without a nap. Chaos Vantage 3 update 2 comes…...
Maxon ships Redshift for Archviz
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (646+ words) For those who don't know the tool: Redshift is a GPU renderer built for fast lookdev and final frames. Vectorworks is a BIM (Building Information Modeling) and CAD hub where buildings get drafted and organised. Architectural visualisation pipelines love a…...