Thursday, February 13th, 2025Posted by Jim ThackerMaxon releases Redshift 2025.3html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"Redshift 2025.3 reworks the renderers handling of Area lights, making it possible for the light they emit to be visible through transmissive objects without the light itself being visible.Maxon has released Redshift 2025.3, the latest version of the GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini, Katana and Maya.The update reworks Redshifts handling of Area and Dome lights, improves multiscattering in volumes, and adds support for the USD procedural in Maya as well as Houdini and Katana.Area and Dome lights are now less dependent on camera visibilityRedshift 2025.3 reworks the renderers handling of Area and Dome lights, making their contribution to a scene less dependent on their visibility to the render camera.Lights can now be visible in a scene, but not themselves cast shadows; or be invisible in a scene, but still be seen through transparent materials, as in the image above.The new Extinction Falloff parameter improves multiscattering in volumes like clouds, making it possible to generate more realistic renders without an attendant performance hit.Better multiscattering in volumesThe update also improves multiscattering in volumes, with both the Standard Volume and classic Volume shader getting a new Extinction Falloff parameter.It reduces scattering and transmittance with successive bounces of volume rays, making it possible to simulate hundreds of bounces without the usual performance penalty.The Standard Volume also now has a single Displacement input, making it possible to apply volume displacement to the volume and emission channels simultaneously.Updates to the USD proceduralIn addition, the Redshift USD procedural is now supported in Maya as well as Houdini and Katana, making it possible to load and render USD files using the RS Proxy.The USD assets are then only loaded at render time, resulting in a lighter primary scene file.The USD Procedural also now supports UsdPreviewSurface materials, and denoising and post effects.Experimental support for NVIDIAs new GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUsThe update also introduces experimental support for the GeForce RTX 50 Series, NVIDIAs new consumer GPUs based on its Blackwell architecture, now becoming commercially available.For Mac users, Redshifts Alembic procedural is now supported on Apple Silicon processors.Price and system requirementsRedshift 2025.3 is compatible with Windows 10+, glibc 2.28+ Linux and macOS 13.3+.The renderers integration plugins are compatible with 3ds Max 2018+, Blender 3.1+, Cinema 4D R25+, Houdini 18.5+, Katana 4.5+ and Maya 2018+ (Maya 2022+ on Linux).The software is rental-only, with subscriptions costing $46/month or $264/year. 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