After announcing Vue 11 some weeks ago, now E-on software introduce the final release of Vue 11 xStream and Vue 11 Infinite.

Key features of Vue 11 include faster rendering, Illumination Caching, terrain and EcoPainter improvements, 360° population, interactive EcoSystem population, as well as Particles. But it's not just particles, it's a new concept of particles.

Vue 11 xStream retails for $1,995 (with one year maintenance), and upgrades from Vue 10 xStream starting at $439. Vue 11 Infinite retails for $1,495 (with one year maintenance), with upgrades from Vue 10.x Infinite starting at $359.

Indigo 3.4 brings several major new features to the visualisation professional's toolkit, including the ability to render with section planes and orthographic cameras. Performance and convergence speed is greatly improved, IES support has been overhauled, and a brand new native plugin for 3ds Max is included in this high-powered update.

Indigo Renderer 3.4 is available now for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The renderer is compatible with 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Revit, SketchUp and Softimage.

The Foundry has released HIERO 1.5, bringing shot management another step further towards a one application solution.

HIERO is a pipeline in a box, bringing shot management, conform and a review system to visual effects production. 

The new version of HIERO is designed to enhance its standing among studios throughout the world with Windows OS Support, as well as OS X and Linux. 

V-Ray has been a popular third-party rendering solution already for more than 10 years and his history reach back to 2002 when the first release of V-Ray was released by Chaos Group. From that time V-Ray became a rendering solution of choice for many 3D production companies due to its capability to deliver high quality photorealistic images in short time. V-Ray is mostly connected to the field of architectural visualization but also to VFX. Back in 2011 was released V-Ray 2.0, a new major release which brought a lot of improvements and features transforming the render engine into a complete rendering solution. Combining the power of V-Ray render engine with the flexibility and speed of the interactive rendering system V-Ray RT GPU makes from V-Ray 2.0 a unique product on the market.