Several companies offer a ray tracing plug-in for SketchUp, but Trimble calls this one the “premier renderer for SketchUp.” After more than four years of R&D, V-Ray Next accelerates the SketchUp workflow, and according to Chaos Group, the SketchUp plug-in offers massive speed and intelligence enabling designers to produce better renders faster. Chaos says V-Ray Scene Intelligence can now automatically … Read more
When Quake, a first-person shooter video game, developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive came out in 1996, it was a breakthrough, transformative, disruptive milestone in PC gaming and has been a legend and foundational example ever since. Quake II release one year later had improved graphics and game mechanics and was an all-time hit—21 years ago. Run, … Read more
Using a little code to make big impressions Our friends at SuperD have been relentlessly toiling away at the math and code of their amazing sub-surfacing tool. We first reported on this in our July 5, 2017 issue. Originally thought of as a teaching tool, President & founder Kun Gao PhD, of Boulder Graphics showed us their latest release of … Read more
