Three.js r186: SunLight, Cascaded Shadows, and WebGPU Now the Default Renderer
Three.js r186 ships SunLight with built-in cascaded shadows, pre-compilable compute shaders, and reworked PBR energy conservation — while WebGPU becomes the assumed default across Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox. »
Three.js r186 Is Getting Native Gaussian Splatting — And It Changes Web 3D
Three.js's r186 development branch has merged a native Gaussian Splat renderer for WebGPU, making photorealistic scene reconstruction a first-class feature of the library for the first time. »
Three.js r186 Brings Native Gaussian Splatting to the Web — 7KB, Three Lines of Code
A long-awaited merge lands photorealistic 3D capture directly in the world's most popular WebGL library, with WebGPU support and four format types out of the box. »
Three.js r185: Clustered Lighting, a Nanite Rasterizer, and WebGPU Growing Up
The latest Three.js release is the one where the WebGPU renderer crosses from 'interesting experiment' to 'ready for production scenes' — headlined by a 16× speedup on many-lights scenarios. »
Blender 5.2 LTS Lands Node-Based Physics and Online Libraries — Two Years of Support Included
Blender 5.2 LTS, released July 14 with two years of guaranteed support, ships a generational upgrade to its physics pipeline through new Geometry Nodes-based cloth and hair simulation, plus on-demand online asset libraries. »