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  Foundry announced the release of Mari 6. New features include: USD export support for Arnold and Renderman shaders to enables users to export one USD look file containing all the relevant shader information needed for a look development-ready asset. The ability to use Mari’s selection tools to assign materials to the correct USD face set-based location. Artists can use Mari’s intuitive selection group tools to assign materials to specific areas of their model and ensure these remain correctly assigned within the exported USD look. A new painting mode that allows users to paint a tileable image and follow the curves and direction of the brush stroke. It enables artists to create seams, stitches, and decals on characters. Support for Python snippets as Shelf Items meaning artists no longer need to to install Python Scripts into the Scripts path before launching Mari. This allows users to share scripts amongst themselves and across studios to get tasks done more efficiently. A new T...

V-Ray 6 is here to empower you to create anything imaginable with new features including: Tighter integration for an even smoother workflow. Support for Houdini 19.5 , plus a fully-featured V-Ray Hydra delegate for Solaris.  Native support for Houdini’s ocean tools , letting you create the perfect ocean waves faster and without any texture baking.  Smart tools to unleash your creativity. Generate more realistic volumetric effects such as clouds, smoke, and more  with Phase Function. Easily create masks for your volumetrics.  Bring scenes to life with Chaos Cosmos , our free library of high-quality V-Ray content.  Customize just the right clouds for your environment without spending hours browsing through HDRI libraries and animating.  Use V-Ray Decal to add displacement to any surface for even more realistic cracked walls, rocks, scratched and rusty surfaces, embossed lettering, and more.  Repeat geometry across the surface of an object in the most me...

  Autodesk has announced the release of Maya 2023.3. New features and improvements include: In the Proximity Wrap tool, a new Transform As Deformation option specifies whether the transform of the driver is used for deformation or whether it is kept separate. The Driver Cluster Matrix attribute can also be used to better preserve rotation and scaling. New options for left-drag behaviour when working with keyframes.  Options in the Hypershade work area allow the user to set default grid visibility, grid snapping, display modes, and swatch sizing. Updates to the Autodesk Translation Framework to allow users to transfer data and files within projects with support for Catia V5-6R2022 and Alias 2023 models. Includes MaxtoA 5.4.2.7 which promises a smoother artist experience, addressing issues with Physical Materials, Volume materials, and more. Plus many more small fixes and improvements. Source: https://blog.superrendersfarm.com/news/maya-2023-3-released/

The Blender Foundation has announced the release of Blender 3.4. Headline features of this release include the addition of Intel’s Open Path Guiding Library, adding support for path guiding in CPU in Cycles; auto-masking tools in Sculpt/Paint mode accessible from the 3D Viewport; several updates to the UV editor in addition to new operators to align UV rotation, randomise islands, support for non-uniform grids, and more; an overlay in the 3D Viewport when using Geometry Nodes, making it easy to debug and test parts of a node tree; new Geometry Nodes that can retrieve mesh and curve data, sample UV surfaces and more.  Other improvements include a new Grease Pencil outline modifier and better Fill tool, support for PBR extensions in .mtl files, animation editors improvements, major performance speed-ups, and much more. Source: https://blog.superrendersfarm.com/news/blender-3-4-released/

  Autodesk has announced the release of 3ds Max 2023.3. New features include: Significantly improved performance for polygon mesh to triangle conversion operations. Users will see benefits when using modifiers that force conversion or when sending scene data to offline renderers like Arnold.  A new organic noise OSL map that includes 28 presets. 2D and 3D UVW randomiser OSL map that can randomise the scale, offset, and rotation of UVW coordinates.  Updated Substance plugin that supports versions 8 and 9 of the Corona renderer Updates to the Autodesk Translation Framework to allow users to transfer data and files within projects with support for Catia V5-6R2022 and Alias 2023 models. Includes MaxtoA 5.4.2.7 which promises a smoother artist experience, addressing issues with Physical Materials, Volume materials, and more. Plus many more small fixes and improvements.  Source: https://blog.superrendersfarm.com/tutorial/3ds-max/3ds-max-2023-3-released/